News and announcements

Duplicity 0.5.20 and 0.6.05 Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2009-08-28

With this release we mark the stabilization of the 0.6 series and make
0.5.20 the final release of the 0.5 series. After this, the 0.6 series
will be merged into the stable branch and a new 0.7 series will be
started. I'm not sure yet what 0.7 will be, so stay tuned.

For those of you wondering, 0.5.19 was never officially released with an
email or other notice, so I'm including its change log below. It's now
announced officially, just too late to do any good.

You can download the latest and greatest from:
https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity/+download

...Thanks,
...Ken

New in v0.6.05 (2009/08/28)
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Merged in ~l2g/duplicity/test-compat from Larry Gilbert which made
the testing compatible across more systems. Also fixed the remaining
collectionstest bug which was trying to test with no cache present.

Bugs fixed this release:
407968 GIO backend can't restore
408059 Failure due to _logger.log failure for content with special
        characters: TypeError decoding Unicode not supported
409593 deja-dup (or duplicity) deletes all signatures
412667 "duplicity remove-older-than" asks for passphrase even though
        not required
418170 [PATCH] file names longer then 512 symbols are not supported

New in v0.5.20 (2009/08/28)
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Bugs fixed this release:
408059 Failure due to _logger.log failure for content with special
        characters: TypeError decoding Unicode not supported
412667 "duplicity remove-older-than" asks for passphrase even though
        not required
418170 [PATCH] file names longer then 512 symbols are not supported

New in v0.5.19 (2009/08/06)
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Fixed problem where Cygwin was returning -1 for the
hard max open file limit.

On process that complete before waitpid(), log them
and return zero as the process return status.

Make sure 'invalid packet (ctb=14)' from gpg is not
a fatal error.

Copy changes from trunk for duplicity translation.

Allow handling of unicode filenames in log messages.

Ignore unicode() translation errors in log messsages.

Duplicity 0.6.04 Has Been Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2009-08-01

New in v0.6.04 (2009/08/01)
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One major and one minor change. The "No such file or directory" error
is bad enough that this should be released quickly. For those of you
using encryption, this is not a problem, but for those of you that do
not use encryption (--no-encryption), then this will manifest itself if
the local cache gets out of sync with the remote store.

Bugs fixed this release:
405734 duplicity fails to restore files that contain a newline character
403790 Backup error: No such file or directory

Duplicity 0.6.03 Has Been Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2009-07-29

New in v0.6.03 (2009/07/29)
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Lots of small changes and some bug fixes.
* Restart error handling has been smoothed out a great deal and it
  "does what is right" in order to keep going.
* Backends are now optional, if they fail an Info message is put out
  to notify of the failure and why.
* There was more work on translations and internationalization.
Thanks to everyone!

Bugs fixed this release:
377528 --file-to-restore doesn't work with trailing slash
394757 Backend imports should be made optional
398230 Deja-dup backup fails with message: "Unable to locate last file"
401303 0.6.2 manpage inconsistent wrt. archive-dir/name
405646 Small i18n error
405975 duplicity.gpg.gpg_failed() breaks and spews on GnuPG error
402794 duplicity public-key-only incompatible with gnupg 2.0.11

Duplicity 0.6.02 Has Been Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2009-07-16

Even though the list is short, this is a fairly important bug fix
release. Plus, we have completed the process of making the cache
consistent with the remote by adding a step that removes any spurious
files left over from a previous duplicity run.

One note on the install... If you have used the PPA for install and
later decide to use the tarball instead, please do an:
  $ sudo apt-get remove duplicity
before installing with the tarball or you will have duplicity in two
separate locations and may get unexpected results. Conversely, if you
have used the tarball and want to install from the PPA, do this:
  $ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages/duplicity
  $ sudo rm /usr/bin/duplicity
and the tarball install will be removed completely.

...Thanks,
...Ken

New in v0.6.02 (2009/07/07)
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Duplicity will now remove any spurious files left in the cache from
a previous run. This will keep the metadata cache in sync with the
remote storage metadata.

Bugs fixed this release:
394629 Hang on first collection-status
379386 Fix 'list-current-files' with missing archive dir
395826 "No such file or directory" when backing up second time
394627 User-friendly archive dir print
388699 Manifest mismatch error