Hello Nikolaus,

I want to thank you for your work with S3QL, it served the company where I
work very well for JetBackup daily backups into S3 for over 3 years, on a
90+ hosting servers environment until JetBackup5 was released.

All the best in your future projects,
Esteban.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 6:54 PM Nikolaus Rath <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am pleased, but also somewhat saddened to announce what is probably
> going to be the last release of S3QL for some time to come, version 4.0.0.
>
> This will be the last S3QL release from me. Other things have taken
> priority in my life, so I no longer have enough time and interest to
> work on S3QL. For now, please consider S3QL to be unmaintained and
> undeveloped. Github issue tracking and pull reuests have therefore been
> disabled. This mailing list continuens to be available for use.
>
> If you would like to take over this project, you are welcome to do
> so. Please fork it and develop the fork for a while. Once there has been
> 6 months of reasonable activity, please contact [email protected] and
> I'll be happy to give you ownership of this repository or replace with a
> pointer to the fork.
>
>
> From the changelog:
>
> 2022-06-10, S3QL 4.0.0
>
>   * The internal file system revision has changed. File systems created
> with this version
>     of S3QL are NOT COMPATIBLE with prior S3QL versions.
>
>     Existing file systems must be upgraded before they can be used with
> current
>     S3QL versions. This procedure is NOT REVERSIBLE.
>
>     To update an existing file system, use the `s3qladm upgrade` command.
> This upgrade
>     process updates only the metadata tables and should not take more than
> a few minutes.
>
>   * Smaller database size and improved performance on metadata operations.
>
>     S3QL was designed to be able to store multiple blocks in the same
> backend
>     object. However, this feature was never implemented. The necessary
> abstraction layer
>     has now been removed, which should increase performance and reduce
> database size.
>
>   * Workarounds for bugs in sqlite 3.38.0 – 3.38.4.
>
>     Sqlite 3.38 introduced bloom filter optimizations. The first patch
> releases of sqlite 3.38
>     had some bugs that prevented fsck.s3ql from running properly and made
> it corrupt the database.
>
>   * Fix handling of rate-limits and responses without Content-Type header
>
>     Some Non-Amazon S3 providers return HTTP 429 when rate-limiting.
>     Additionally, error responses may occasionally come without a
> Content-Type header.
>     These are now handled, no longer causing file system crashes.
>
>
> The following people have contributed code to this release:
>
> Daniel Jagszent <[email protected]>
> Jeremy Kescher <[email protected]>
> Nikolaus Rath <[email protected]>
> r0ps3c <[email protected]>
>
> (The full list of contributors is available in the AUTHORS file).
>
> The release is available for download from
> https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/releases
>
> Please report any bugs on the mailing list ([email protected]) or
> the issue tracker (https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/issues).
>
> Best,
> -Nikolaus
>
>
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