Hello,
I am happy to announce a new Release Candidate in preparation for the
Back In Time release version 1.5.4 which is targeted for the upcoming
Debian release version 13 (Trixie) this summer. Please report back if
you use it, even if no issues are found.
<https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc1>
This version is set to be released with Debian 13 (Trixie) this early
summer and will remain available for the long lifetime of that Debian
version. EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as
deprecated and is schedule for removal in 2026. The Smart & Auto
remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into "Remove & Retention",
with improvements to the user manual section. Its behavior remains
unchange. An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule
options. Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced
state file. License and copyright information is now provided in
machine-readable SPDX format, following the REUSE standard.
# Contributors
This version received extensive support from contributors (in
alphabetical order):
- @bremnere
- David Gibbs @fallingrock
- graysky @graysky2
- Samuel More @mooresamuel
- Iván Rodríguez @ivanrdgz03
- Peter Sevens @sevens
- David Wales @daviewales
- Dylan Wilson @dylan-wilson-usq
- Also not to be forgotten are the many people who supported the
project by testing it, providing feedback, reporting issues, and
analyzing problems.
# Known major issues open
- qt_probing.py may hang with high CPU usage when running Back In Time
as root via cron (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1592)
- File permissions handling and therefore possible non-differential
backups (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/988 &
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/994)
# Changelog
* Changed: More clear and intense warning about EncFS deprecation and
removal (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1904)
* Changed: Updated desktop entry files
* Changed: Move several values from config file into new introduce
state file ($XDG_STATE_HOME/backintime.json)
* Changed: Completed license information to conform the REUSE.software
and SPDX standards.
* Breaking Change: Auto-remove rules "Free inodes" and "Free space"
disabled by default (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1976)
* Fix!: Smart-remove rule "Keep one snapshots per week or the last
week" use calendar weeks
* Fix: The width of the fourth column in files view is now saved
* Fix: Snapshot compare copy symlink as symlink
(https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1902) (Peter Sevens
@sevens)
* Fix: Crash when comparing a snapshot with a symlink pointing to a
nonexistent target (Peter Sevens @sevens)
* Fix: Crash (KeyError) opening language setup dialog with unknown
locale/language
* Feature: Open user manual (local if available otherwise online) via
Help menu
* Feature: Toolbar context menu to display the buttons in different
combinations with icons and text
(https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1105,
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/pull/2002) (Samuel Moore
@s4moore)
* Feature: Add offset minutes to hourly schedules (David Gibbs
@fallingrock)
* Doc: Remove & Retention (formally known as Auto-/Smart-Remove) with
improved GUI and user manual section
(https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/pull/2000)
Regards,
Christian Buhtz on behalf of the maintenance team
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