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Duplicity 0.6.01 Has Been Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2009-07-02

This is the first release from Launchpad, and I'm glad I made the move.
The website is still on Savannah, but that will be changing.

Lots of fixes and some good changes. The major change is that duplicity
will synchronize the archive directory with the remote store on startup.
 This fixes a number of issues that occurred when upgrading from the
0.5.x series. Please read the release notes below for details.

You can get it from https://launchpad.net/duplicity/trunk/0.6.01.

...Thanks,
...Ken

New in v0.6.01 (2009/07/01)
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Fixed issues in Checkpoint/Restart:
* The --name backupname" option was added to allow the
  user to separate one archive from another. If not
  specified, the default is an MD5 hash of the target
  URL, which should suffice for most uses.

* The archive_dir (cache) is now stored in a standard
  location, defaulting to ~/.cache/duplicity. See
  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

* The interaction between the --archive-dir option and
  the --name option allows for four possible results
  for the location of the archive dir.
    + neither specified (default)
        ~/.cache/duplicity/hash-of-url
    + --archive-dir=~/arch, no --name
        ~/arch/hash-of-url
    + no --archive-dir, --name=foo
        ~/.cache/duplicity/foo
    + --archive-dir=~/arch, --name=foo
        ~/arch/foo

* duplicity will now copy needed metadata from the
  remote store to the local cache as needed. This
  means that the first use after upgraded from 0.5.x
  will have the metadata copied to the local archive
  dir in order to sync both.

* cleanup will now work correctly with the archive
  dir and separates the local from the remote files.

Bugs fixed this release:
* 388034 Unable to backup
* 378940 python2-6 issue / UTF-8 charset / Ubuntu 9.04
* 379386 Fix list-current-files w/ missing archive dir
* 387102 Asynchronous upload not working properly
* 387218 Make scp/ssh into sftp-only backend
* 388992 List of Orphaned Files Growing
* 392905 NoneType object has no attribute 'startswith'
* 393372 Error creating directory
* 383412 Add InfoCodes for upload events
* 383419 Add gio backend