I'm proud to announce the fourth bugfix release 0.11.4 of the 0.11 series of
the Simple Backup suite.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending
patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!

Series 0.11.x finally replaces the old-fashioned Simple Backup 0.10.5
with code that was developed in (Not So) Simple Backup in the meantime.
It adds some very interesting features and is ready for daily
use. Most notable enhancements are:

* fixes many, partly long standing, bugs

* implementation of a status application which presents information of
  running backups such as backup size, progress and estimated remaining time
  
* implementation of a GIO/GVFS backend for access of remote targets (currently
  supported is FTP, SFTP, SSH, NFS). The backend to use can be controlled
  by a GConf setting (see https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+faq/1256)
  
* notification window in case of not found backup destination: you can
  directly retry to use the specified destination, after mounting an
  external disk (good for creation of backups stored on external disks
  that might not be plugged in)


This release in particular fixes:

  * [Fix] LP: #714916 Unhandled error in gio backend when looking up
                      verbose error message
  * [Fix] LP: #662613 sbackup crashes with 'NonValidOptionException'
  * [Fix] LP: #709338 Restore/revert of non-toplevel items produces only
                      empty folders
  * [Fix] LP: #689016 Uncaught error 'invalid literal for int() when
                      processing invalid configuration files
  * [Fix] LP: #697386 RemoteMountFailedError 'Max. number of password inputs
                      reached' not handled properly
  * [Fix] LP: #697654 No desktop session found: no notification icon:
  * [Fix] LP: #701403 Unable to use remote target without giving a password:
  * [Fix] LP: #588578 Email notification/reporting doesn't work with GMAIL
  * [Fix] LP: #706037 Email reports not working; enable debug output
                      for sending mail
  * [Fix] LP: #683990 Uncaught 'NoSectionError' when adding report settings
                      (SMTP server etc.)
  * [Fix] LP: #695613 Empty notification popup due to invalid markup
  * [Fix] LP: #671785 Parsing remote URIs fails when username or password
  					  contains special characters; quote special characters
  					  to comply with RFC 1738 sec. 3.1
  * [Fix] LP: #675361 Restore process fails with error 'is not a file' while
                      copying
  * [Fix] LP: #696183 Failed to set GID to `admin`; improved handling of
                      non-existent user groups
  * refer to dependent packages 'gconf2', 'desktop-file-utils' in install file
  * translations updated
  * translations added: fo

See the changelog on the download page for more information.


Known issues - There are a few known issues in SBackup 0.11.x:

* when upgrading snapshots in old Simple Backup format (1.4 and older) it is
  not recommended to use these as base for successive snapshots. Make a full
  snapshot instead.
* specified log directories are not modified when using former nssbackup
  configurations. This might lead to directories named `.../nssbackup`.
* in order to use secure remote targets (SFTP, SSH via GIO) you'll have to
  add the remote machine to your trusted machines first
  (see https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+faq/1255)  
* due to default security settings it is not possible to create backups at
  remote destinations which are split into several chunks when running as
  superuser (root) using the GIO backend
* No Help available on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (due to use of Mallard)
* if you want to install sbackup from source code after you've had
  it already installed from PPA, you'll need to *Purge* the package (i.e.
  remove package and configuration files, not only remove) to avoid
  confusion of your packaging software about configuration files in
  system directories (namely /etc/dbus-1/system.d)


Have fun.