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  1. Changelog
  2. =========
  3. Important note about pre-1.0.4 potential repo corruption
  4. --------------------------------------------------------
  5. Some external errors (like network or disk I/O errors) could lead to
  6. corruption of the backup repository due to issue #1138.
  7. A sign that this happened is if "E" status was reported for a file that can
  8. not be explained by problems with the source file. If you still have logs from
  9. "borg create -v --list", you can check for "E" status.
  10. Here is what could cause corruption and what you can do now:
  11. 1) I/O errors (e.g. repo disk errors) while writing data to repo.
  12. This could lead to corrupted segment files.
  13. Fix::
  14. # check for corrupt chunks / segments:
  15. borg check -v --repository-only REPO
  16. # repair the repo:
  17. borg check -v --repository-only --repair REPO
  18. # make sure everything is fixed:
  19. borg check -v --repository-only REPO
  20. 2) Unreliable network / unreliable connection to the repo.
  21. This could lead to archive metadata corruption.
  22. Fix::
  23. # check for corrupt archives:
  24. borg check -v --archives-only REPO
  25. # delete the corrupt archives:
  26. borg delete --force REPO::CORRUPT_ARCHIVE
  27. # make sure everything is fixed:
  28. borg check -v --archives-only REPO
  29. 3) In case you want to do more intensive checking.
  30. The best check that everything is ok is to run a dry-run extraction::
  31. borg extract -v --dry-run REPO::ARCHIVE
  32. Version 1.1.0 (not released yet)
  33. --------------------------------
  34. New features:
  35. - borg check: will not produce the "Checking segments" output unless
  36. new --progress option is passed, #824.
  37. - options that imply output (--show-rc, --show-version, --list, --stats,
  38. --progress) don't need -v/--info to have that output displayed, #865
  39. - borg recreate: re-create existing archives, #787 #686 #630 #70, also see
  40. #757, #770.
  41. - selectively remove files/dirs from old archives
  42. - re-compress data
  43. - re-chunkify data, e.g. to have upgraded Attic / Borg 0.xx archives
  44. deduplicate with Borg 1.x archives or to experiment with chunker-params.
  45. - create: visit files in inode order (better speed, esp. for large directories
  46. and rotating disks)
  47. - borg diff: show differences between archives
  48. - borg list improved:
  49. - removed {formatkeys}, see "borg list --help"
  50. - --list-format is deprecated, use --format instead
  51. - now supports the usual [PATH [PATHS…]] syntax and excludes
  52. - new keys: csize, num_chunks, unique_chunks, NUL
  53. - supports guaranteed_available hashlib hashes
  54. (to avoid varying functionality depending on environment)
  55. - prune:
  56. - to better visualize the "thinning out", we now list all archives in
  57. reverse time order. rephrase and reorder help text.
  58. - implement --keep-last N via --keep-secondly N, also --keep-minutely.
  59. assuming that there is not more than 1 backup archive made in 1s,
  60. --keep-last N and --keep-secondly N are equivalent, #537
  61. - borg comment: add archive comments, #842
  62. - provide "borgfs" wrapper for borg mount, enables usage via fstab, #743
  63. - create: add 'x' status for excluded paths, #814
  64. - --show-version: shows/logs the borg version, #725
  65. - borg list/prune/delete: also output archive id, #731
  66. Bug fixes:
  67. - init: clean up partial repo if passphrase input is aborted, #850
  68. - info: quote cmdline arguments that have spaces in them
  69. - failing hashindex tests on netbsd, #804
  70. - fix links failing for extracting subtrees, #761
  71. Other changes:
  72. - replace stdlib hmac with OpenSSL, zero-copy decrypt (10-15% increase in
  73. performance of hash-lists and extract).
  74. - Source:
  75. - pass meta-data around, #765
  76. - move some constants to new constants module
  77. - better readability and less errors with namedtuples, #823
  78. - Docs:
  79. - better help texts and sphinx reproduction of usage help:
  80. - Group options
  81. - Nicer list of options in Sphinx
  82. - Deduplicate 'Common options' (including --help)
  83. - chunker: added some insights by "Voltara", #903
  84. - clarify what "deduplicated size" means
  85. - fix / update / add package list entries
  86. - new contributors in AUTHORS!
  87. - Tests:
  88. - vagrant: add ubuntu/xenial 64bit - this box has still some issues
  89. - ChunkBuffer: add test for leaving partial chunk in buffer, fixes #945
  90. Version 1.0.7 (not released yet)
  91. --------------------------------
  92. Security fixes:
  93. - fix security issue with remote repository access, #1428
  94. Version 1.0.7rc2 (not released yet)
  95. -----------------------------------
  96. Bug fixes:
  97. - do not write objects to repository that are bigger than the allowed size,
  98. borg will reject reading them, #1451.
  99. IMPORTANT: if you created archives with many millions of files or
  100. directories, please verify if you can open them successfully,
  101. e.g. try a "borg list REPO::ARCHIVE".
  102. - fixed a race condition in extended attributes querying that led to the
  103. entire file not being backed up (while logging the error, exit code = 1),
  104. #1469
  105. - fixed a race condition in extended attributes querying that led to a crash,
  106. #1462
  107. Version 1.0.7rc1 (2016-08-05)
  108. -----------------------------
  109. Bug fixes:
  110. - fix repo lock deadlocks (related to lock upgrade), #1220
  111. - catch unpacker exceptions, resync, #1351
  112. - fix borg break-lock ignoring BORG_REPO env var, #1324
  113. - files cache performance fixes (fixes unneccessary re-reading/chunking/
  114. hashing of unmodified files for some use cases):
  115. - fix unintended file cache eviction, #1430
  116. - implement BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, update FAQ, raise default TTL from 10
  117. to 20, #1338
  118. - FUSE:
  119. - cache partially read data chunks (performance), #965, #966
  120. - always create a root dir, #1125
  121. - use an OrderedDict for helptext, making the build reproducible, #1346
  122. - RemoteRepository init: always call close on exceptions, #1370 (cosmetic)
  123. - ignore stdout/stderr broken pipe errors (cosmetic), #1116
  124. New features:
  125. - better borg versions management support (useful esp. for borg servers
  126. wanting to offer multiple borg versions and for clients wanting to choose
  127. a specific server borg version), #1392:
  128. - add BORG_VERSION environment variable before executing "borg serve" via ssh
  129. - add new placeholder {borgversion}
  130. - substitute placeholders in --remote-path
  131. - borg init --append-only option (makes using the more secure append-only mode
  132. more convenient. when used remotely, this requires 1.0.7+ also on the borg
  133. server), #1291.
  134. Other changes:
  135. - Vagrantfile:
  136. - darwin64: upgrade to FUSE for macOS 3.4.1 (aka osxfuse), #1378
  137. - xenial64: use user "ubuntu", not "vagrant" (as usual), #1331
  138. - tests:
  139. - fix fuse tests on OS X, #1433
  140. - docs:
  141. - FAQ: add backup using stable filesystem names recommendation
  142. - FAQ about glibc compatibility added, #491, glibc-check improved
  143. - FAQ: 'A' unchanged file; remove ambiguous entry age sentence.
  144. - OS X: install pkg-config to build with FUSE support, fixes #1400
  145. - add notes about shell/sudo pitfalls with env. vars, #1380
  146. - added platform feature matrix
  147. - implement borg debug-dump-repo-objs
  148. Version 1.0.6 (2016-07-12)
  149. --------------------------
  150. Bug fixes:
  151. - Linux: handle multiple LD_PRELOAD entries correctly, #1314, #1111
  152. - Fix crash with unclear message if the libc is not found, #1314, #1111
  153. Other changes:
  154. - tests:
  155. - Fixed O_NOATIME tests for Solaris and GNU Hurd, #1315
  156. - Fixed sparse file tests for (file) systems not supporting it, #1310
  157. - docs:
  158. - Fixed syntax highlighting, #1313
  159. - misc docs: added data processing overview picture
  160. Version 1.0.6rc1 (2016-07-10)
  161. -----------------------------
  162. New features:
  163. - borg check --repair: heal damaged files if missing chunks re-appear (e.g. if
  164. the previously missing chunk was added again in a later backup archive),
  165. #148. (*) Also improved logging.
  166. Bug fixes:
  167. - sync_dir: silence fsync() failing with EINVAL, #1287
  168. Some network filesystems (like smbfs) don't support this and we use this in
  169. repository code.
  170. - borg mount (FUSE):
  171. - fix directories being shadowed when contained paths were also specified,
  172. #1295
  173. - raise I/O Error (EIO) on damaged files (unless -o allow_damaged_files is
  174. used), #1302. (*)
  175. - borg extract: warn if a damaged file is extracted, #1299. (*)
  176. - Added some missing return code checks (ChunkIndex._add, hashindex_resize).
  177. - borg check: fix/optimize initial hash table size, avoids resize of the table.
  178. Other changes:
  179. - tests:
  180. - add more FUSE tests, #1284
  181. - deduplicate fuse (u)mount code
  182. - fix borg binary test issues, #862
  183. - docs:
  184. - changelog: added release dates to older borg releases
  185. - fix some sphinx (docs generator) warnings, #881
  186. Notes:
  187. (*) Some features depend on information (chunks_healthy list) added to item
  188. metadata when a file with missing chunks was "repaired" using all-zero
  189. replacement chunks. The chunks_healthy list is generated since borg 1.0.4,
  190. thus borg can't recognize such "repaired" (but content-damaged) files if the
  191. repair was done with an older borg version.
  192. Version 1.0.5 (2016-07-07)
  193. --------------------------
  194. Bug fixes:
  195. - borg mount: fix FUSE crash in xattr code on Linux introduced in 1.0.4, #1282
  196. Other changes:
  197. - backport some FAQ entries from master branch
  198. - add release helper scripts
  199. - Vagrantfile:
  200. - centos6: no FUSE, don't build binary
  201. - add xz for redhat-like dists
  202. Version 1.0.4 (2016-07-07)
  203. --------------------------
  204. New features:
  205. - borg serve --append-only, #1168
  206. This was included because it was a simple change (append-only functionality
  207. was already present via repository config file) and makes better security now
  208. practically usable.
  209. - BORG_REMOTE_PATH environment variable, #1258
  210. This was included because it was a simple change (--remote-path cli option
  211. was already present) and makes borg much easier to use if you need it.
  212. - Repository: cleanup incomplete transaction on "no space left" condition.
  213. In many cases, this can avoid a 100% full repo filesystem (which is very
  214. problematic as borg always needs free space - even to delete archives).
  215. Bug fixes:
  216. - Fix wrong handling and reporting of OSErrors in borg create, #1138.
  217. This was a serious issue: in the context of "borg create", errors like
  218. repository I/O errors (e.g. disk I/O errors, ssh repo connection errors)
  219. were handled badly and did not lead to a crash (which would be good for this
  220. case, because the repo transaction would be incomplete and trigger a
  221. transaction rollback to clean up).
  222. Now, error handling for source files is cleanly separated from every other
  223. error handling, so only problematic input files are logged and skipped.
  224. - Implement fail-safe error handling for borg extract.
  225. Note that this isn't nearly as critical as the borg create error handling
  226. bug, since nothing is written to the repo. So this was "merely" misleading
  227. error reporting.
  228. - Add missing error handler in directory attr restore loop.
  229. - repo: make sure write data hits disk before the commit tag (#1236) and also
  230. sync the containing directory.
  231. - FUSE: getxattr fail must use errno.ENOATTR, #1126
  232. (fixes Mac OS X Finder malfunction: "zero bytes" file length, access denied)
  233. - borg check --repair: do not lose information about the good/original chunks.
  234. If we do not lose the original chunk IDs list when "repairing" a file
  235. (replacing missing chunks with all-zero chunks), we have a chance to "heal"
  236. the file back into its original state later, in case the chunks re-appear
  237. (e.g. in a fresh backup). Healing is not implemented yet, see #148.
  238. - fixes for --read-special mode:
  239. - ignore known files cache, #1241
  240. - fake regular file mode, #1214
  241. - improve symlinks handling, #1215
  242. - remove passphrase from subprocess environment, #1105
  243. - Ignore empty index file (will trigger index rebuild), #1195
  244. - add missing placeholder support for --prefix, #1027
  245. - improve exception handling for placeholder replacement
  246. - catch and format exceptions in arg parsing
  247. - helpers: fix "undefined name 'e'" in exception handler
  248. - better error handling for missing repo manifest, #1043
  249. - borg delete:
  250. - make it possible to delete a repo without manifest
  251. - borg delete --forced allows to delete corrupted archives, #1139
  252. - borg check:
  253. - make borg check work for empty repo
  254. - fix resync and msgpacked item qualifier, #1135
  255. - rebuild_manifest: fix crash if 'name' or 'time' key were missing.
  256. - better validation of item metadata dicts, #1130
  257. - better validation of archive metadata dicts
  258. - close the repo on exit - even if rollback did not work, #1197.
  259. This is rather cosmetic, it avoids repo closing in the destructor.
  260. - tests:
  261. - fix sparse file test, #1170
  262. - flake8: ignore new F405, #1185
  263. - catch "invalid argument" on cygwin, #257
  264. - fix sparseness assertion in test prep, #1264
  265. Other changes:
  266. - make borg build/work on OpenSSL 1.0 and 1.1, #1187
  267. - docs / help:
  268. - fix / clarify prune help, #1143
  269. - fix "patterns" help formatting
  270. - add missing docs / help about placeholders
  271. - resources: rename atticmatic to borgmatic
  272. - document sshd settings, #545
  273. - more details about checkpoints, add split trick, #1171
  274. - support docs: add freenode web chat link, #1175
  275. - add prune visualization / example, #723
  276. - add note that Fnmatch is default, #1247
  277. - make clear that lzma levels > 6 are a waste of cpu cycles
  278. - add a "do not edit" note to auto-generated files, #1250
  279. - update cygwin installation docs
  280. - repository interoperability with borg master (1.1dev) branch:
  281. - borg check: read item metadata keys from manifest, #1147
  282. - read v2 hints files, #1235
  283. - fix hints file "unknown version" error handling bug
  284. - tests: add tests for format_line
  285. - llfuse: update version requirement for freebsd
  286. - Vagrantfile:
  287. - use openbsd 5.9, #716
  288. - do not install llfuse on netbsd (broken)
  289. - update OSXfuse to version 3.3.3
  290. - use Python 3.5.2 to build the binaries
  291. - glibc compatibility checker: scripts/glibc_check.py
  292. - add .eggs to .gitignore
  293. Version 1.0.3 (2016-05-20)
  294. --------------------------
  295. Bug fixes:
  296. - prune: avoid that checkpoints are kept and completed archives are deleted in
  297. a prune run), #997
  298. - prune: fix commandline argument validation - some valid command lines were
  299. considered invalid (annoying, but harmless), #942
  300. - fix capabilities extraction on Linux (set xattrs last, after chown()), #1069
  301. - repository: fix commit tags being seen in data
  302. - when probing key files, do binary reads. avoids crash when non-borg binary
  303. files are located in borg's key files directory.
  304. - handle SIGTERM and make a clean exit - avoids orphan lock files.
  305. - repository cache: don't cache large objects (avoid using lots of temp. disk
  306. space), #1063
  307. Other changes:
  308. - Vagrantfile: OS X: update osxfuse / install lzma package, #933
  309. - setup.py: add check for platform_darwin.c
  310. - setup.py: on freebsd, use a llfuse release that builds ok
  311. - docs / help:
  312. - update readthedocs URLs, #991
  313. - add missing docs for "borg break-lock", #992
  314. - borg create help: add some words to about the archive name
  315. - borg create help: document format tags, #894
  316. Version 1.0.2 (2016-04-16)
  317. --------------------------
  318. Bug fixes:
  319. - fix malfunction and potential corruption on (nowadays rather rare) big-endian
  320. architectures or bi-endian archs in (rare) BE mode. #886, #889
  321. cache resync / index merge was malfunctioning due to this, potentially
  322. leading to data loss. borg info had cosmetic issues (displayed wrong values).
  323. note: all (widespread) little-endian archs (like x86/x64) or bi-endian archs
  324. in (widespread) LE mode (like ARMEL, MIPSEL, ...) were NOT affected.
  325. - add overflow and range checks for 1st (special) uint32 of the hashindex
  326. values, switch from int32 to uint32.
  327. - fix so that refcount will never overflow, but just stick to max. value after
  328. a overflow would have occured.
  329. - borg delete: fix --cache-only for broken caches, #874
  330. Makes --cache-only idempotent: it won't fail if the cache is already deleted.
  331. - fixed borg create --one-file-system erroneously traversing into other
  332. filesystems (if starting fs device number was 0), #873
  333. - workround a bug in Linux fadvise FADV_DONTNEED, #907
  334. Other changes:
  335. - better test coverage for hashindex, incl. overflow testing, checking correct
  336. computations so endianness issues would be discovered.
  337. - reproducible doc for ProgressIndicator*, make the build reproducible.
  338. - use latest llfuse for vagrant machines
  339. - docs:
  340. - use /path/to/repo in examples, fixes #901
  341. - fix confusing usage of "repo" as archive name (use "arch")
  342. Version 1.0.1 (2016-04-08)
  343. --------------------------
  344. New features:
  345. Usually there are no new features in a bugfix release, but these were added
  346. due to their high impact on security/safety/speed or because they are fixes
  347. also:
  348. - append-only mode for repositories, #809, #36 (see docs)
  349. - borg create: add --ignore-inode option to make borg detect unmodified files
  350. even if your filesystem does not have stable inode numbers (like sshfs and
  351. possibly CIFS).
  352. - add options --warning, --error, --critical for missing log levels, #826.
  353. it's not recommended to suppress warnings or errors, but the user may decide
  354. this on his own.
  355. note: --warning is not given to borg serve so a <= 1.0.0 borg will still
  356. work as server (it is not needed as it is the default).
  357. do not use --error or --critical when using a <= 1.0.0 borg server.
  358. Bug fixes:
  359. - fix silently skipping EIO, #748
  360. - add context manager for Repository (avoid orphan repository locks), #285
  361. - do not sleep for >60s while waiting for lock, #773
  362. - unpack file stats before passing to FUSE
  363. - fix build on illumos
  364. - don't try to backup doors or event ports (Solaris and derivates)
  365. - remove useless/misleading libc version display, #738
  366. - test suite: reset exit code of persistent archiver, #844
  367. - RemoteRepository: clean up pipe if remote open() fails
  368. - Remote: don't print tracebacks for Error exceptions handled downstream, #792
  369. - if BORG_PASSPHRASE is present but wrong, don't prompt for password, but fail
  370. instead, #791
  371. - ArchiveChecker: move "orphaned objects check skipped" to INFO log level, #826
  372. - fix capitalization, add ellipses, change log level to debug for 2 messages,
  373. #798
  374. Other changes:
  375. - update llfuse requirement, llfuse 1.0 works
  376. - update OS / dist packages on build machines, #717
  377. - prefer showing --info over -v in usage help, #859
  378. - docs:
  379. - fix cygwin requirements (gcc-g++)
  380. - document how to debug / file filesystem issues, #664
  381. - fix reproducible build of api docs
  382. - RTD theme: CSS !important overwrite, #727
  383. - Document logo font. Recreate logo png. Remove GIMP logo file.
  384. Version 1.0.0 (2016-03-05)
  385. --------------------------
  386. The major release number change (0.x -> 1.x) indicates bigger incompatible
  387. changes, please read the compatibility notes, adapt / test your scripts and
  388. check your backup logs.
  389. Compatibility notes:
  390. - drop support for python 3.2 and 3.3, require 3.4 or 3.5, #221 #65 #490
  391. note: we provide binaries that include python 3.5.1 and everything else
  392. needed. they are an option in case you are stuck with < 3.4 otherwise.
  393. - change encryption to be on by default (using "repokey" mode)
  394. - moved keyfile keys from ~/.borg/keys to ~/.config/borg/keys,
  395. you can either move them manually or run "borg upgrade <REPO>"
  396. - remove support for --encryption=passphrase,
  397. use borg migrate-to-repokey to switch to repokey mode, #97
  398. - remove deprecated --compression <number>,
  399. use --compression zlib,<number> instead
  400. in case of 0, you could also use --compression none
  401. - remove deprecated --hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly
  402. use --keep-hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly instead
  403. - remove deprecated --do-not-cross-mountpoints,
  404. use --one-file-system instead
  405. - disambiguate -p option, #563:
  406. - -p now is same as --progress
  407. - -P now is same as --prefix
  408. - remove deprecated "borg verify",
  409. use "borg extract --dry-run" instead
  410. - cleanup environment variable semantics, #355
  411. the environment variables used to be "yes sayers" when set, this was
  412. conceptually generalized to "automatic answerers" and they just give their
  413. value as answer (as if you typed in that value when being asked).
  414. See the "usage" / "Environment Variables" section of the docs for details.
  415. - change the builtin default for --chunker-params, create 2MiB chunks, #343
  416. --chunker-params new default: 19,23,21,4095 - old default: 10,23,16,4095
  417. one of the biggest issues with borg < 1.0 (and also attic) was that it had a
  418. default target chunk size of 64kiB, thus it created a lot of chunks and thus
  419. also a huge chunk management overhead (high RAM and disk usage).
  420. please note that the new default won't change the chunks that you already
  421. have in your repository. the new big chunks do not deduplicate with the old
  422. small chunks, so expect your repo to grow at least by the size of every
  423. changed file and in the worst case (e.g. if your files cache was lost / is
  424. not used) by the size of every file (minus any compression you might use).
  425. in case you want to immediately see a much lower resource usage (RAM / disk)
  426. for chunks management, it might be better to start with a new repo than
  427. continuing in the existing repo (with an existing repo, you'ld have to wait
  428. until all archives with small chunks got pruned to see a lower resource
  429. usage).
  430. if you used the old --chunker-params default value (or if you did not use
  431. --chunker-params option at all) and you'ld like to continue using small
  432. chunks (and you accept the huge resource usage that comes with that), just
  433. explicitly use borg create --chunker-params=10,23,16,4095.
  434. - archive timestamps: the 'time' timestamp now refers to archive creation
  435. start time (was: end time), the new 'time_end' timestamp refers to archive
  436. creation end time. This might affect prune if your backups take rather long.
  437. if you give a timestamp via cli this is stored into 'time', therefore it now
  438. needs to mean archive creation start time.
  439. New features:
  440. - implement password roundtrip, #695
  441. Bug fixes:
  442. - remote end does not need cache nor keys directories, do not create them, #701
  443. - added retry counter for passwords, #703
  444. Other changes:
  445. - fix compiler warnings, #697
  446. - docs:
  447. - update README.rst to new changelog location in docs/changes.rst
  448. - add Teemu to AUTHORS
  449. - changes.rst: fix old chunker params, #698
  450. - FAQ: how to limit bandwidth
  451. Version 1.0.0rc2 (2016-02-28)
  452. -----------------------------
  453. New features:
  454. - format options for location: user, pid, fqdn, hostname, now, utcnow, user
  455. - borg list --list-format
  456. - borg prune -v --list enables the keep/prune list output, #658
  457. Bug fixes:
  458. - fix _open_rb noatime handling, #657
  459. - add a simple archivename validator, #680
  460. - borg create --stats: show timestamps in localtime, use same labels/formatting
  461. as borg info, #651
  462. - llfuse compatibility fixes (now compatible with: 0.40, 0.41, 0.42)
  463. Other changes:
  464. - it is now possible to use "pip install borgbackup[fuse]" to automatically
  465. install the llfuse dependency using the correct version requirement
  466. for it. you still need to care about having installed the FUSE / build
  467. related OS package first, though, so that building llfuse can succeed.
  468. - Vagrant: drop Ubuntu Precise (12.04) - does not have Python >= 3.4
  469. - Vagrant: use pyinstaller v3.1.1 to build binaries
  470. - docs:
  471. - borg upgrade: add to docs that only LOCAL repos are supported
  472. - borg upgrade also handles borg 0.xx -> 1.0
  473. - use pip extras or requirements file to install llfuse
  474. - fix order in release process
  475. - updated usage docs and other minor / cosmetic fixes
  476. - verified borg examples in docs, #644
  477. - freebsd dependency installation and fuse configuration, #649
  478. - add example how to restore a raw device, #671
  479. - add a hint about the dev headers needed when installing from source
  480. - add examples for delete (and handle delete after list, before prune), #656
  481. - update example for borg create -v --stats (use iso datetime format), #663
  482. - added example to BORG_RSH docs
  483. - "connection closed by remote": add FAQ entry and point to issue #636
  484. Version 1.0.0rc1 (2016-02-07)
  485. -----------------------------
  486. New features:
  487. - borg migrate-to-repokey ("passphrase" -> "repokey" encryption key mode)
  488. - implement --short for borg list REPO, #611
  489. - implement --list for borg extract (consistency with borg create)
  490. - borg serve: overwrite client's --restrict-to-path with ssh forced command's
  491. option value (but keep everything else from the client commandline), #544
  492. - use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/keys for keyfile keys (~/.config/borg/keys), #515
  493. - "borg upgrade" moves the keyfile keys to the new location
  494. - display both archive creation start and end time in "borg info", #627
  495. Bug fixes:
  496. - normalize trailing slashes for the repository path, #606
  497. - Cache: fix exception handling in __init__, release lock, #610
  498. Other changes:
  499. - suppress unneeded exception context (PEP 409), simpler tracebacks
  500. - removed special code needed to deal with imperfections / incompatibilities /
  501. missing stuff in py 3.2/3.3, simplify code that can be done simpler in 3.4
  502. - removed some version requirements that were kept on old versions because
  503. newer did not support py 3.2 any more
  504. - use some py 3.4+ stdlib code instead of own/openssl/pypi code:
  505. - use os.urandom instead of own cython openssl RAND_bytes wrapper, #493
  506. - use hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from py stdlib instead of own openssl wrapper
  507. - use hmac.compare_digest instead of == operator (constant time comparison)
  508. - use stat.filemode instead of homegrown code
  509. - use "mock" library from stdlib, #145
  510. - remove borg.support (with non-broken argparse copy), it is ok in 3.4+, #358
  511. - Vagrant: copy CHANGES.rst as symlink, #592
  512. - cosmetic code cleanups, add flake8 to tox/travis, #4
  513. - docs / help:
  514. - make "borg -h" output prettier, #591
  515. - slightly rephrase prune help
  516. - add missing example for --list option of borg create
  517. - quote exclude line that includes an asterisk to prevent shell expansion
  518. - fix dead link to license
  519. - delete Ubuntu Vivid, it is not supported anymore (EOL)
  520. - OS X binary does not work for older OS X releases, #629
  521. - borg serve's special support for forced/original ssh commands, #544
  522. - misc. updates and fixes
  523. Version 0.30.0 (2016-01-23)
  524. ---------------------------
  525. Compatibility notes:
  526. - you may need to use -v (or --info) more often to actually see output emitted
  527. at INFO log level (because it is suppressed at the default WARNING log level).
  528. See the "general" section in the usage docs.
  529. - for borg create, you need --list (additionally to -v) to see the long file
  530. list (was needed so you can have e.g. --stats alone without the long list)
  531. - see below about BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING (was:
  532. BORG_CHECK_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING)
  533. Bug fixes:
  534. - fix crash when using borg create --dry-run --keep-tag-files, #570
  535. - make sure teardown with cleanup happens for Cache and RepositoryCache,
  536. avoiding leftover locks and TEMP dir contents, #285 (partially), #548
  537. - fix locking KeyError, partial fix for #502
  538. - log stats consistently, #526
  539. - add abbreviated weekday to timestamp format, fixes #496
  540. - strip whitespace when loading exclusions from file
  541. - unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking ssh, fixes strange OpenSSL library
  542. version warning when using the borg binary, #514
  543. - add some error handling/fallback for C library loading, #494
  544. - added BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING for check in "borg delete", #503
  545. - remove unused "repair" rpc method name
  546. New features:
  547. - borg create: implement exclusions using regular expression patterns.
  548. - borg create: implement inclusions using patterns.
  549. - borg extract: support patterns, #361
  550. - support different styles for patterns:
  551. - fnmatch (`fm:` prefix, default when omitted), like borg <= 0.29.
  552. - shell (`sh:` prefix) with `*` not matching directory separators and
  553. `**/` matching 0..n directories
  554. - path prefix (`pp:` prefix, for unifying borg create pp1 pp2 into the
  555. patterns system), semantics like in borg <= 0.29
  556. - regular expression (`re:`), new!
  557. - --progress option for borg upgrade (#291) and borg delete <archive>
  558. - update progress indication more often (e.g. for borg create within big
  559. files or for borg check repo), #500
  560. - finer chunker granularity for items metadata stream, #547, #487
  561. - borg create --list now used (additionally to -v) to enable the verbose
  562. file list output
  563. - display borg version below tracebacks, #532
  564. Other changes:
  565. - hashtable size (and thus: RAM and disk consumption) follows a growth policy:
  566. grows fast while small, grows slower when getting bigger, #527
  567. - Vagrantfile: use pyinstaller 3.1 to build binaries, freebsd sqlite3 fix,
  568. fixes #569
  569. - no separate binaries for centos6 any more because the generic linux binaries
  570. also work on centos6 (or in general: on systems with a slightly older glibc
  571. than debian7
  572. - dev environment: require virtualenv<14.0 so we get a py32 compatible pip
  573. - docs:
  574. - add space-saving chunks.archive.d trick to FAQ
  575. - important: clarify -v and log levels in usage -> general, please read!
  576. - sphinx configuration: create a simple man page from usage docs
  577. - add a repo server setup example
  578. - disable unneeded SSH features in authorized_keys examples for security.
  579. - borg prune only knows "--keep-within" and not "--within"
  580. - add gource video to resources docs, #507
  581. - add netbsd install instructions
  582. - authors: make it more clear what refers to borg and what to attic
  583. - document standalone binary requirements, #499
  584. - rephrase the mailing list section
  585. - development docs: run build_api and build_usage before tagging release
  586. - internals docs: hash table max. load factor is 0.75 now
  587. - markup, typo, grammar, phrasing, clarifications and other fixes.
  588. - add gcc gcc-c++ to redhat/fedora/corora install docs, fixes #583
  589. Version 0.29.0 (2015-12-13)
  590. ---------------------------
  591. Compatibility notes:
  592. - when upgrading to 0.29.0 you need to upgrade client as well as server
  593. installations due to the locking and commandline interface changes otherwise
  594. you'll get an error msg about a RPC protocol mismatch or a wrong commandline
  595. option.
  596. if you run a server that needs to support both old and new clients, it is
  597. suggested that you have a "borg-0.28.2" and a "borg-0.29.0" command.
  598. clients then can choose via e.g. "borg --remote-path=borg-0.29.0 ...".
  599. - the default waiting time for a lock changed from infinity to 1 second for a
  600. better interactive user experience. if the repo you want to access is
  601. currently locked, borg will now terminate after 1s with an error message.
  602. if you have scripts that shall wait for the lock for a longer time, use
  603. --lock-wait N (with N being the maximum wait time in seconds).
  604. Bug fixes:
  605. - hash table tuning (better chosen hashtable load factor 0.75 and prime initial
  606. size of 1031 gave ~1000x speedup in some scenarios)
  607. - avoid creation of an orphan lock for one case, #285
  608. - --keep-tag-files: fix file mode and multiple tag files in one directory, #432
  609. - fixes for "borg upgrade" (attic repo converter), #466
  610. - remove --progress isatty magic (and also --no-progress option) again, #476
  611. - borg init: display proper repo URL
  612. - fix format of umask in help pages, #463
  613. New features:
  614. - implement --lock-wait, support timeout for UpgradableLock, #210
  615. - implement borg break-lock command, #157
  616. - include system info below traceback, #324
  617. - sane remote logging, remote stderr, #461:
  618. - remote log output: intercept it and log it via local logging system,
  619. with "Remote: " prefixed to message. log remote tracebacks.
  620. - remote stderr: output it to local stderr with "Remote: " prefixed.
  621. - add --debug and --info (same as --verbose) to set the log level of the
  622. builtin logging configuration (which otherwise defaults to warning), #426
  623. note: there are few messages emitted at DEBUG level currently.
  624. - optionally configure logging via env var BORG_LOGGING_CONF
  625. - add --filter option for status characters: e.g. to show only the added
  626. or modified files (and also errors), use "borg create -v --filter=AME ...".
  627. - more progress indicators, #394
  628. - use ISO-8601 date and time format, #375
  629. - "borg check --prefix" to restrict archive checking to that name prefix, #206
  630. Other changes:
  631. - hashindex_add C implementation (speed up cache re-sync for new archives)
  632. - increase FUSE read_size to 1024 (speed up metadata operations)
  633. - check/delete/prune --save-space: free unused segments quickly, #239
  634. - increase rpc protocol version to 2 (see also Compatibility notes), #458
  635. - silence borg by default (via default log level WARNING)
  636. - get rid of C compiler warnings, #391
  637. - upgrade OS X FUSE to 3.0.9 on the OS X binary build system
  638. - use python 3.5.1 to build binaries
  639. - docs:
  640. - new mailing list borgbackup@python.org, #468
  641. - readthedocs: color and logo improvements
  642. - load coverage icons over SSL (avoids mixed content)
  643. - more precise binary installation steps
  644. - update release procedure docs about OS X FUSE
  645. - FAQ entry about unexpected 'A' status for unchanged file(s), #403
  646. - add docs about 'E' file status
  647. - add "borg upgrade" docs, #464
  648. - add developer docs about output and logging
  649. - clarify encryption, add note about client-side encryption
  650. - add resources section, with videos, talks, presentations, #149
  651. - Borg moved to Arch Linux [community]
  652. - fix wrong installation instructions for archlinux
  653. Version 0.28.2 (2015-11-15)
  654. ---------------------------
  655. New features:
  656. - borg create --exclude-if-present TAGFILE - exclude directories that have the
  657. given file from the backup. You can additionally give --keep-tag-files to
  658. preserve just the directory roots and the tag-files (but not backup other
  659. directory contents), #395, attic #128, attic #142
  660. Other changes:
  661. - do not create docs sources at build time (just have them in the repo),
  662. completely remove have_cython() hack, do not use the "mock" library at build
  663. time, #384
  664. - avoid hidden import, make it easier for PyInstaller, easier fix for #218
  665. - docs:
  666. - add description of item flags / status output, fixes #402
  667. - explain how to regenerate usage and API files (build_api or
  668. build_usage) and when to commit usage files directly into git, #384
  669. - minor install docs improvements
  670. Version 0.28.1 (2015-11-08)
  671. ---------------------------
  672. Bug fixes:
  673. - do not try to build api / usage docs for production install,
  674. fixes unexpected "mock" build dependency, #384
  675. Other changes:
  676. - avoid using msgpack.packb at import time
  677. - fix formatting issue in changes.rst
  678. - fix build on readthedocs
  679. Version 0.28.0 (2015-11-08)
  680. ---------------------------
  681. Compatibility notes:
  682. - changed return codes (exit codes), see docs. in short:
  683. old: 0 = ok, 1 = error. now: 0 = ok, 1 = warning, 2 = error
  684. New features:
  685. - refactor return codes (exit codes), fixes #61
  686. - add --show-rc option enable "terminating with X status, rc N" output, fixes 58, #351
  687. - borg create backups atime and ctime additionally to mtime, fixes #317
  688. - extract: support atime additionally to mtime
  689. - FUSE: support ctime and atime additionally to mtime
  690. - support borg --version
  691. - emit a warning if we have a slow msgpack installed
  692. - borg list --prefix=thishostname- REPO, fixes #205
  693. - Debug commands (do not use except if you know what you do: debug-get-obj,
  694. debug-put-obj, debug-delete-obj, debug-dump-archive-items.
  695. Bug fixes:
  696. - setup.py: fix bug related to BORG_LZ4_PREFIX processing
  697. - fix "check" for repos that have incomplete chunks, fixes #364
  698. - borg mount: fix unlocking of repository at umount time, fixes #331
  699. - fix reading files without touching their atime, #334
  700. - non-ascii ACL fixes for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X, #277
  701. - fix acl_use_local_uid_gid() and add a test for it, attic #359
  702. - borg upgrade: do not upgrade repositories in place by default, #299
  703. - fix cascading failure with the index conversion code, #269
  704. - borg check: implement 'cmdline' archive metadata value decoding, #311
  705. - fix RobustUnpacker, it missed some metadata keys (new atime and ctime keys
  706. were missing, but also bsdflags). add check for unknown metadata keys.
  707. - create from stdin: also save atime, ctime (cosmetic)
  708. - use default_notty=False for confirmations, fixes #345
  709. - vagrant: fix msgpack installation on centos, fixes #342
  710. - deal with unicode errors for symlinks in same way as for regular files and
  711. have a helpful warning message about how to fix wrong locale setup, fixes #382
  712. - add ACL keys the RobustUnpacker must know about
  713. Other changes:
  714. - improve file size displays, more flexible size formatters
  715. - explicitly commit to the units standard, #289
  716. - archiver: add E status (means that an error occurred when processing this
  717. (single) item
  718. - do binary releases via "github releases", closes #214
  719. - create: use -x and --one-file-system (was: --do-not-cross-mountpoints), #296
  720. - a lot of changes related to using "logging" module and screen output, #233
  721. - show progress display if on a tty, output more progress information, #303
  722. - factor out status output so it is consistent, fix surrogates removal,
  723. maybe fixes #309
  724. - move away from RawConfigParser to ConfigParser
  725. - archive checker: better error logging, give chunk_id and sequence numbers
  726. (can be used together with borg debug-dump-archive-items).
  727. - do not mention the deprecated passphrase mode
  728. - emit a deprecation warning for --compression N (giving a just a number)
  729. - misc .coverragerc fixes (and coverage measurement improvements), fixes #319
  730. - refactor confirmation code, reduce code duplication, add tests
  731. - prettier error messages, fixes #307, #57
  732. - tests:
  733. - add a test to find disk-full issues, #327
  734. - travis: also run tests on Python 3.5
  735. - travis: use tox -r so it rebuilds the tox environments
  736. - test the generated pyinstaller-based binary by archiver unit tests, #215
  737. - vagrant: tests: announce whether fakeroot is used or not
  738. - vagrant: add vagrant user to fuse group for debianoid systems also
  739. - vagrant: llfuse install on darwin needs pkgconfig installed
  740. - vagrant: use pyinstaller from develop branch, fixes #336
  741. - benchmarks: test create, extract, list, delete, info, check, help, fixes #146
  742. - benchmarks: test with both the binary and the python code
  743. - archiver tests: test with both the binary and the python code, fixes #215
  744. - make basic test more robust
  745. - docs:
  746. - moved docs to borgbackup.readthedocs.org, #155
  747. - a lot of fixes and improvements, use mobile-friendly RTD standard theme
  748. - use zlib,6 compression in some examples, fixes #275
  749. - add missing rename usage to docs, closes #279
  750. - include the help offered by borg help <topic> in the usage docs, fixes #293
  751. - include a list of major changes compared to attic into README, fixes #224
  752. - add OS X install instructions, #197
  753. - more details about the release process, #260
  754. - fix linux glibc requirement (binaries built on debian7 now)
  755. - build: move usage and API generation to setup.py
  756. - update docs about return codes, #61
  757. - remove api docs (too much breakage on rtd)
  758. - borgbackup install + basics presentation (asciinema)
  759. - describe the current style guide in documentation
  760. - add section about debug commands
  761. - warn about not running out of space
  762. - add example for rename
  763. - improve chunker params docs, fixes #362
  764. - minor development docs update
  765. Version 0.27.0 (2015-10-07)
  766. ---------------------------
  767. New features:
  768. - "borg upgrade" command - attic -> borg one time converter / migration, #21
  769. - temporary hack to avoid using lots of disk space for chunks.archive.d, #235:
  770. To use it: rm -rf chunks.archive.d ; touch chunks.archive.d
  771. - respect XDG_CACHE_HOME, attic #181
  772. - add support for arbitrary SSH commands, attic #99
  773. - borg delete --cache-only REPO (only delete cache, not REPO), attic #123
  774. Bug fixes:
  775. - use Debian 7 (wheezy) to build pyinstaller borgbackup binaries, fixes slow
  776. down observed when running the Centos6-built binary on Ubuntu, #222
  777. - do not crash on empty lock.roster, fixes #232
  778. - fix multiple issues with the cache config version check, #234
  779. - fix segment entry header size check, attic #352
  780. plus other error handling improvements / code deduplication there.
  781. - always give segment and offset in repo IntegrityErrors
  782. Other changes:
  783. - stop producing binary wheels, remove docs about it, #147
  784. - docs:
  785. - add warning about prune
  786. - generate usage include files only as needed
  787. - development docs: add Vagrant section
  788. - update / improve / reformat FAQ
  789. - hint to single-file pyinstaller binaries from README
  790. Version 0.26.1 (2015-09-28)
  791. ---------------------------
  792. This is a minor update, just docs and new pyinstaller binaries.
  793. - docs update about python and binary requirements
  794. - better docs for --read-special, fix #220
  795. - re-built the binaries, fix #218 and #213 (glibc version issue)
  796. - update web site about single-file pyinstaller binaries
  797. Note: if you did a python-based installation, there is no need to upgrade.
  798. Version 0.26.0 (2015-09-19)
  799. ---------------------------
  800. New features:
  801. - Faster cache sync (do all in one pass, remove tar/compression stuff), #163
  802. - BORG_REPO env var to specify the default repo, #168
  803. - read special files as if they were regular files, #79
  804. - implement borg create --dry-run, attic issue #267
  805. - Normalize paths before pattern matching on OS X, #143
  806. - support OpenBSD and NetBSD (except xattrs/ACLs)
  807. - support / run tests on Python 3.5
  808. Bug fixes:
  809. - borg mount repo: use absolute path, attic #200, attic #137
  810. - chunker: use off_t to get 64bit on 32bit platform, #178
  811. - initialize chunker fd to -1, so it's not equal to STDIN_FILENO (0)
  812. - fix reaction to "no" answer at delete repo prompt, #182
  813. - setup.py: detect lz4.h header file location
  814. - to support python < 3.2.4, add less buggy argparse lib from 3.2.6 (#194)
  815. - fix for obtaining ``char *`` from temporary Python value (old code causes
  816. a compile error on Mint 17.2)
  817. - llfuse 0.41 install troubles on some platforms, require < 0.41
  818. (UnicodeDecodeError exception due to non-ascii llfuse setup.py)
  819. - cython code: add some int types to get rid of unspecific python add /
  820. subtract operations (avoid ``undefined symbol FPE_``... error on some platforms)
  821. - fix verbose mode display of stdin backup
  822. - extract: warn if a include pattern never matched, fixes #209,
  823. implement counters for Include/ExcludePatterns
  824. - archive names with slashes are invalid, attic issue #180
  825. - chunker: add a check whether the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED constant is defined -
  826. fixes building on OpenBSD.
  827. Other changes:
  828. - detect inconsistency / corruption / hash collision, #170
  829. - replace versioneer with setuptools_scm, #106
  830. - docs:
  831. - pkg-config is needed for llfuse installation
  832. - be more clear about pruning, attic issue #132
  833. - unit tests:
  834. - xattr: ignore security.selinux attribute showing up
  835. - ext3 seems to need a bit more space for a sparse file
  836. - do not test lzma level 9 compression (avoid MemoryError)
  837. - work around strange mtime granularity issue on netbsd, fixes #204
  838. - ignore st_rdev if file is not a block/char device, fixes #203
  839. - stay away from the setgid and sticky mode bits
  840. - use Vagrant to do easy cross-platform testing (#196), currently:
  841. - Debian 7 "wheezy" 32bit, Debian 8 "jessie" 64bit
  842. - Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
  843. - Centos 7 64bit
  844. - FreeBSD 10.2 64bit
  845. - OpenBSD 5.7 64bit
  846. - NetBSD 6.1.5 64bit
  847. - Darwin (OS X Yosemite)
  848. Version 0.25.0 (2015-08-29)
  849. ---------------------------
  850. Compatibility notes:
  851. - lz4 compression library (liblz4) is a new requirement (#156)
  852. - the new compression code is very compatible: as long as you stay with zlib
  853. compression, older borg releases will still be able to read data from a
  854. repo/archive made with the new code (note: this is not the case for the
  855. default "none" compression, use "zlib,0" if you want a "no compression" mode
  856. that can be read by older borg). Also the new code is able to read repos and
  857. archives made with older borg versions (for all zlib levels 0..9).
  858. Deprecations:
  859. - --compression N (with N being a number, as in 0.24) is deprecated.
  860. We keep the --compression 0..9 for now to not break scripts, but it is
  861. deprecated and will be removed later, so better fix your scripts now:
  862. --compression 0 (as in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,0 (now).
  863. BUT: if you do not want compression, you rather want --compression none
  864. (which is the default).
  865. --compression 1 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,1 (now)
  866. --compression 9 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,9 (now)
  867. New features:
  868. - create --compression none (default, means: do not compress, just pass through
  869. data "as is". this is more efficient than zlib level 0 as used in borg 0.24)
  870. - create --compression lz4 (super-fast, but not very high compression)
  871. - create --compression zlib,N (slower, higher compression, default for N is 6)
  872. - create --compression lzma,N (slowest, highest compression, default N is 6)
  873. - honor the nodump flag (UF_NODUMP) and do not backup such items
  874. - list --short just outputs a simple list of the files/directories in an archive
  875. Bug fixes:
  876. - fixed --chunker-params parameter order confusion / malfunction, fixes #154
  877. - close fds of segments we delete (during compaction)
  878. - close files which fell out the lrucache
  879. - fadvise DONTNEED now is only called for the byte range actually read, not for
  880. the whole file, fixes #158.
  881. - fix issue with negative "all archives" size, fixes #165
  882. - restore_xattrs: ignore if setxattr fails with EACCES, fixes #162
  883. Other changes:
  884. - remove fakeroot requirement for tests, tests run faster without fakeroot
  885. (test setup does not fail any more without fakeroot, so you can run with or
  886. without fakeroot), fixes #151 and #91.
  887. - more tests for archiver
  888. - recover_segment(): don't assume we have an fd for segment
  889. - lrucache refactoring / cleanup, add dispose function, py.test tests
  890. - generalize hashindex code for any key length (less hardcoding)
  891. - lock roster: catch file not found in remove() method and ignore it
  892. - travis CI: use requirements file
  893. - improved docs:
  894. - replace hack for llfuse with proper solution (install libfuse-dev)
  895. - update docs about compression
  896. - update development docs about fakeroot
  897. - internals: add some words about lock files / locking system
  898. - support: mention BountySource and for what it can be used
  899. - theme: use a lighter green
  900. - add pypi, wheel, dist package based install docs
  901. - split install docs into system-specific preparations and generic instructions
  902. Version 0.24.0 (2015-08-09)
  903. ---------------------------
  904. Incompatible changes (compared to 0.23):
  905. - borg now always issues --umask NNN option when invoking another borg via ssh
  906. on the repository server. By that, it's making sure it uses the same umask
  907. for remote repos as for local ones. Because of this, you must upgrade both
  908. server and client(s) to 0.24.
  909. - the default umask is 077 now (if you do not specify via --umask) which might
  910. be a different one as you used previously. The default umask avoids that
  911. you accidentally give access permissions for group and/or others to files
  912. created by borg (e.g. the repository).
  913. Deprecations:
  914. - "--encryption passphrase" mode is deprecated, see #85 and #97.
  915. See the new "--encryption repokey" mode for a replacement.
  916. New features:
  917. - borg create --chunker-params ... to configure the chunker, fixes #16
  918. (attic #302, attic #300, and somehow also #41).
  919. This can be used to reduce memory usage caused by chunk management overhead,
  920. so borg does not create a huge chunks index/repo index and eats all your RAM
  921. if you back up lots of data in huge files (like VM disk images).
  922. See docs/misc/create_chunker-params.txt for more information.
  923. - borg info now reports chunk counts in the chunk index.
  924. - borg create --compression 0..9 to select zlib compression level, fixes #66
  925. (attic #295).
  926. - borg init --encryption repokey (to store the encryption key into the repo),
  927. fixes #85
  928. - improve at-end error logging, always log exceptions and set exit_code=1
  929. - LoggedIO: better error checks / exceptions / exception handling
  930. - implement --remote-path to allow non-default-path borg locations, #125
  931. - implement --umask M and use 077 as default umask for better security, #117
  932. - borg check: give a named single archive to it, fixes #139
  933. - cache sync: show progress indication
  934. - cache sync: reimplement the chunk index merging in C
  935. Bug fixes:
  936. - fix segfault that happened for unreadable files (chunker: n needs to be a
  937. signed size_t), #116
  938. - fix the repair mode, #144
  939. - repo delete: add destroy to allowed rpc methods, fixes issue #114
  940. - more compatible repository locking code (based on mkdir), maybe fixes #92
  941. (attic #317, attic #201).
  942. - better Exception msg if no Borg is installed on the remote repo server, #56
  943. - create a RepositoryCache implementation that can cope with >2GiB,
  944. fixes attic #326.
  945. - fix Traceback when running check --repair, attic #232
  946. - clarify help text, fixes #73.
  947. - add help string for --no-files-cache, fixes #140
  948. Other changes:
  949. - improved docs:
  950. - added docs/misc directory for misc. writeups that won't be included
  951. "as is" into the html docs.
  952. - document environment variables and return codes (attic #324, attic #52)
  953. - web site: add related projects, fix web site url, IRC #borgbackup
  954. - Fedora/Fedora-based install instructions added to docs
  955. - Cygwin-based install instructions added to docs
  956. - updated AUTHORS
  957. - add FAQ entries about redundancy / integrity
  958. - clarify that borg extract uses the cwd as extraction target
  959. - update internals doc about chunker params, memory usage and compression
  960. - added docs about development
  961. - add some words about resource usage in general
  962. - document how to backup a raw disk
  963. - add note about how to run borg from virtual env
  964. - add solutions for (ll)fuse installation problems
  965. - document what borg check does, fixes #138
  966. - reorganize borgbackup.github.io sidebar, prev/next at top
  967. - deduplicate and refactor the docs / README.rst
  968. - use borg-tmp as prefix for temporary files / directories
  969. - short prune options without "keep-" are deprecated, do not suggest them
  970. - improved tox configuration
  971. - remove usage of unittest.mock, always use mock from pypi
  972. - use entrypoints instead of scripts, for better use of the wheel format and
  973. modern installs
  974. - add requirements.d/development.txt and modify tox.ini
  975. - use travis-ci for testing based on Linux and (new) OS X
  976. - use coverage.py, pytest-cov and codecov.io for test coverage support
  977. I forgot to list some stuff already implemented in 0.23.0, here they are:
  978. New features:
  979. - efficient archive list from manifest, meaning a big speedup for slow
  980. repo connections and "list <repo>", "delete <repo>", "prune" (attic #242,
  981. attic #167)
  982. - big speedup for chunks cache sync (esp. for slow repo connections), fixes #18
  983. - hashindex: improve error messages
  984. Other changes:
  985. - explicitly specify binary mode to open binary files
  986. - some easy micro optimizations
  987. Version 0.23.0 (2015-06-11)
  988. ---------------------------
  989. Incompatible changes (compared to attic, fork related):
  990. - changed sw name and cli command to "borg", updated docs
  991. - package name (and name in urls) uses "borgbackup" to have less collisions
  992. - changed repo / cache internal magic strings from ATTIC* to BORG*,
  993. changed cache location to .cache/borg/ - this means that it currently won't
  994. accept attic repos (see issue #21 about improving that)
  995. Bug fixes:
  996. - avoid defect python-msgpack releases, fixes attic #171, fixes attic #185
  997. - fix traceback when trying to do unsupported passphrase change, fixes attic #189
  998. - datetime does not like the year 10.000, fixes attic #139
  999. - fix "info" all archives stats, fixes attic #183
  1000. - fix parsing with missing microseconds, fixes attic #282
  1001. - fix misleading hint the fuse ImportError handler gave, fixes attic #237
  1002. - check unpacked data from RPC for tuple type and correct length, fixes attic #127
  1003. - fix Repository._active_txn state when lock upgrade fails
  1004. - give specific path to xattr.is_enabled(), disable symlink setattr call that
  1005. always fails
  1006. - fix test setup for 32bit platforms, partial fix for attic #196
  1007. - upgraded versioneer, PEP440 compliance, fixes attic #257
  1008. New features:
  1009. - less memory usage: add global option --no-cache-files
  1010. - check --last N (only check the last N archives)
  1011. - check: sort archives in reverse time order
  1012. - rename repo::oldname newname (rename repository)
  1013. - create -v output more informative
  1014. - create --progress (backup progress indicator)
  1015. - create --timestamp (utc string or reference file/dir)
  1016. - create: if "-" is given as path, read binary from stdin
  1017. - extract: if --stdout is given, write all extracted binary data to stdout
  1018. - extract --sparse (simple sparse file support)
  1019. - extra debug information for 'fread failed'
  1020. - delete <repo> (deletes whole repo + local cache)
  1021. - FUSE: reflect deduplication in allocated blocks
  1022. - only allow whitelisted RPC calls in server mode
  1023. - normalize source/exclude paths before matching
  1024. - use posix_fadvise to not spoil the OS cache, fixes attic #252
  1025. - toplevel error handler: show tracebacks for better error analysis
  1026. - sigusr1 / sigint handler to print current file infos - attic PR #286
  1027. - RPCError: include the exception args we get from remote
  1028. Other changes:
  1029. - source: misc. cleanups, pep8, style
  1030. - docs and faq improvements, fixes, updates
  1031. - cleanup crypto.pyx, make it easier to adapt to other AES modes
  1032. - do os.fsync like recommended in the python docs
  1033. - source: Let chunker optionally work with os-level file descriptor.
  1034. - source: Linux: remove duplicate os.fsencode calls
  1035. - source: refactor _open_rb code a bit, so it is more consistent / regular
  1036. - source: refactor indicator (status) and item processing
  1037. - source: use py.test for better testing, flake8 for code style checks
  1038. - source: fix tox >=2.0 compatibility (test runner)
  1039. - pypi package: add python version classifiers, add FreeBSD to platforms
  1040. Attic Changelog
  1041. ---------------
  1042. Here you can see the full list of changes between each Attic release until Borg
  1043. forked from Attic:
  1044. Version 0.17
  1045. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1046. (bugfix release, released on X)
  1047. - Fix hashindex ARM memory alignment issue (#309)
  1048. - Improve hashindex error messages (#298)
  1049. Version 0.16
  1050. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1051. (bugfix release, released on May 16, 2015)
  1052. - Fix typo preventing the security confirmation prompt from working (#303)
  1053. - Improve handling of systems with improperly configured file system encoding (#289)
  1054. - Fix "All archives" output for attic info. (#183)
  1055. - More user friendly error message when repository key file is not found (#236)
  1056. - Fix parsing of iso 8601 timestamps with zero microseconds (#282)
  1057. Version 0.15
  1058. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1059. (bugfix release, released on Apr 15, 2015)
  1060. - xattr: Be less strict about unknown/unsupported platforms (#239)
  1061. - Reduce repository listing memory usage (#163).
  1062. - Fix BrokenPipeError for remote repositories (#233)
  1063. - Fix incorrect behavior with two character directory names (#265, #268)
  1064. - Require approval before accessing relocated/moved repository (#271)
  1065. - Require approval before accessing previously unknown unencrypted repositories (#271)
  1066. - Fix issue with hash index files larger than 2GB.
  1067. - Fix Python 3.2 compatibility issue with noatime open() (#164)
  1068. - Include missing pyx files in dist files (#168)
  1069. Version 0.14
  1070. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1071. (feature release, released on Dec 17, 2014)
  1072. - Added support for stripping leading path segments (#95)
  1073. "attic extract --strip-segments X"
  1074. - Add workaround for old Linux systems without acl_extended_file_no_follow (#96)
  1075. - Add MacPorts' path to the default openssl search path (#101)
  1076. - HashIndex improvements, eliminates unnecessary IO on low memory systems.
  1077. - Fix "Number of files" output for attic info. (#124)
  1078. - limit create file permissions so files aren't read while restoring
  1079. - Fix issue with empty xattr values (#106)
  1080. Version 0.13
  1081. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1082. (feature release, released on Jun 29, 2014)
  1083. - Fix sporadic "Resource temporarily unavailable" when using remote repositories
  1084. - Reduce file cache memory usage (#90)
  1085. - Faster AES encryption (utilizing AES-NI when available)
  1086. - Experimental Linux, OS X and FreeBSD ACL support (#66)
  1087. - Added support for backup and restore of BSDFlags (OSX, FreeBSD) (#56)
  1088. - Fix bug where xattrs on symlinks were not correctly restored
  1089. - Added cachedir support. CACHEDIR.TAG compatible cache directories
  1090. can now be excluded using ``--exclude-caches`` (#74)
  1091. - Fix crash on extreme mtime timestamps (year 2400+) (#81)
  1092. - Fix Python 3.2 specific lockf issue (EDEADLK)
  1093. Version 0.12
  1094. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1095. (feature release, released on April 7, 2014)
  1096. - Python 3.4 support (#62)
  1097. - Various documentation improvements a new style
  1098. - ``attic mount`` now supports mounting an entire repository not only
  1099. individual archives (#59)
  1100. - Added option to restrict remote repository access to specific path(s):
  1101. ``attic serve --restrict-to-path X`` (#51)
  1102. - Include "all archives" size information in "--stats" output. (#54)
  1103. - Added ``--stats`` option to ``attic delete`` and ``attic prune``
  1104. - Fixed bug where ``attic prune`` used UTC instead of the local time zone
  1105. when determining which archives to keep.
  1106. - Switch to SI units (Power of 1000 instead 1024) when printing file sizes
  1107. Version 0.11
  1108. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1109. (feature release, released on March 7, 2014)
  1110. - New "check" command for repository consistency checking (#24)
  1111. - Documentation improvements
  1112. - Fix exception during "attic create" with repeated files (#39)
  1113. - New "--exclude-from" option for attic create/extract/verify.
  1114. - Improved archive metadata deduplication.
  1115. - "attic verify" has been deprecated. Use "attic extract --dry-run" instead.
  1116. - "attic prune --hourly|daily|..." has been deprecated.
  1117. Use "attic prune --keep-hourly|daily|..." instead.
  1118. - Ignore xattr errors during "extract" if not supported by the filesystem. (#46)
  1119. Version 0.10
  1120. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1121. (bugfix release, released on Jan 30, 2014)
  1122. - Fix deadlock when extracting 0 sized files from remote repositories
  1123. - "--exclude" wildcard patterns are now properly applied to the full path
  1124. not just the file name part (#5).
  1125. - Make source code endianness agnostic (#1)
  1126. Version 0.9
  1127. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  1128. (feature release, released on Jan 23, 2014)
  1129. - Remote repository speed and reliability improvements.
  1130. - Fix sorting of segment names to ignore NFS left over files. (#17)
  1131. - Fix incorrect display of time (#13)
  1132. - Improved error handling / reporting. (#12)
  1133. - Use fcntl() instead of flock() when locking repository/cache. (#15)
  1134. - Let ssh figure out port/user if not specified so we don't override .ssh/config (#9)
  1135. - Improved libcrypto path detection (#23).
  1136. Version 0.8.1
  1137. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1138. (bugfix release, released on Oct 4, 2013)
  1139. - Fix segmentation fault issue.
  1140. Version 0.8
  1141. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  1142. (feature release, released on Oct 3, 2013)
  1143. - Fix xattr issue when backing up sshfs filesystems (#4)
  1144. - Fix issue with excessive index file size (#6)
  1145. - Support access of read only repositories.
  1146. - New syntax to enable repository encryption:
  1147. attic init --encryption="none|passphrase|keyfile".
  1148. - Detect and abort if repository is older than the cache.
  1149. Version 0.7
  1150. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  1151. (feature release, released on Aug 5, 2013)
  1152. - Ported to FreeBSD
  1153. - Improved documentation
  1154. - Experimental: Archives mountable as fuse filesystems.
  1155. - The "user." prefix is no longer stripped from xattrs on Linux
  1156. Version 0.6.1
  1157. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1158. (bugfix release, released on July 19, 2013)
  1159. - Fixed an issue where mtime was not always correctly restored.
  1160. Version 0.6
  1161. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  1162. First public release on July 9, 2013