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  1. Changelog
  2. =========
  3. Version 1.0.0 (not released yet)
  4. --------------------------------
  5. The major release number change (0.x -> 1.x) indicates bigger incompatible
  6. changes, please read the compatibility notes, adapt / test your scripts and
  7. check your backup logs.
  8. Compatibility notes:
  9. - drop support for python 3.2 and 3.3, require 3.4 or 3.5, #221 #65 #490
  10. note: we provide binaries that include python 3.5.1 and everything else
  11. needed. they are an option in case you are stuck with < 3.4 otherwise.
  12. - change encryption to be on by default (using "repokey" mode)
  13. - moved keyfile keys from ~/.borg/keys to ~/.config/borg/keys,
  14. you can either move them manually or run "borg upgrade <REPO>"
  15. - remove support for --encryption=passphrase,
  16. use borg migrate-to-repokey to switch to repokey mode, #97
  17. - remove deprecated "--compression <number>",
  18. use --compression zlib,<number> instead
  19. in case of 0, you could also use --compression none
  20. - remove deprecated "--hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly"
  21. use --keep-hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly instead
  22. - remove deprecated "--do-not-cross-mountpoints",
  23. use --one-file-system instead
  24. - disambiguate -p option, #563:
  25. - -p now is same as --progress
  26. - -P now is same as --prefix
  27. - remove deprecated "borg verify",
  28. use borg extract --dry-run instead
  29. - cleanup environment variable semantics, #355
  30. the environment variables used to be "yes sayers" when set, this was
  31. conceptually generalized to "automatic answerers" and they just give their
  32. value as answer (as if you typed in that value when being asked).
  33. See the "usage" / "Environment Variables" section of the docs for details.
  34. - change the builtin default for --chunker-params, create 2MiB chunks, #343
  35. --chunker-params new default: 19,23,21,4095 - old default: 10,23,16,4096
  36. one of the biggest issues with borg < 1.0 (and also attic) was that it had a
  37. default target chunk size of 64kiB, thus it created a lot of chunks and thus
  38. also a huge chunk management overhead (high RAM and disk usage).
  39. please note that the new default won't change the chunks that you already
  40. have in your repository. the new big chunks do not deduplicate with the old
  41. small chunks, so expect your repo to grow at least by the size of every
  42. changed file and in the worst case (e.g. if your files cache was lost / is
  43. not used) by the size of every file (minus any compression you might use).
  44. in case you want to immediately see a much lower resource usage (RAM / disk)
  45. for chunks management, it might be better to start with a new repo than
  46. continuing in the existing repo (with an existing repo, you'ld have to wait
  47. until all archives with small chunks got pruned to see a lower resource
  48. usage).
  49. if you used the old --chunker-params default value (or if you did not use
  50. --chunker-params option at all) and you'ld like to continue using small
  51. chunks (and you accept the huge resource usage that comes with that), just
  52. explicitly use borg create --chunker-params=10,23,16,4095.
  53. New features:
  54. - borg migrate-to-repokey ("passphrase" -> "repokey" encryption key mode)
  55. - implement --short for borg list REPO, fixes #611
  56. - implement --list for borg extract (consistency with borg create)
  57. - borg serve: overwrite client's --restrict-to-path with ssh forced command's
  58. option value (but keep everything else from the client commandline), #544
  59. - use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/keys for keyfile keys (~/.config/borg/keys), #515
  60. - "borg upgrade" moves the keyfile keys to the new location
  61. Bug fixes:
  62. - normalize trailing slashes for the repository path, #606
  63. Other changes:
  64. - suppress unneeded exception context (PEP 409), simpler tracebacks
  65. - removed special code needed to deal with imperfections / incompatibilities /
  66. missing stuff in py 3.2/3.3, simplify code that can be done simpler in 3.4
  67. - removed some version requirements that were kept on old versions because
  68. newer did not support py 3.2 any more
  69. - use some py 3.4+ stdlib code instead of own/openssl/pypi code:
  70. - use os.urandom instead of own cython openssl RAND_bytes wrapper, fixes #493
  71. - use hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from py stdlib instead of own openssl wrapper
  72. - use hmac.compare_digest instead of == operator (constant time comparison)
  73. - use stat.filemode instead of homegrown code
  74. - use "mock" library from stdlib, #145
  75. - remove borg.support (with non-broken argparse copy), it is ok in 3.4+, #358
  76. - Vagrant: copy CHANGES.rst as symlink, #592
  77. - cosmetic code cleanups, add flake8 to tox/travis, #4
  78. - docs / help:
  79. - make "borg -h" output prettier, #591
  80. - slightly rephrase prune help
  81. - add missing example for --list option of borg create
  82. - quote exclude line that includes an asterisk to prevent shell expansion
  83. - fix dead link to license
  84. - delete Ubuntu Vivid, it is not supported anymore (EOL)
  85. Version 0.30.0
  86. --------------
  87. Compatibility notes:
  88. - you may need to use -v (or --info) more often to actually see output emitted
  89. at INFO log level (because it is suppressed at the default WARNING log level).
  90. See the "general" section in the usage docs.
  91. - for borg create, you need --list (additionally to -v) to see the long file
  92. list (was needed so you can have e.g. --stats alone without the long list)
  93. - see below about BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING (was:
  94. BORG_CHECK_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING)
  95. Bug fixes:
  96. - fix crash when using borg create --dry-run --keep-tag-files, #570
  97. - make sure teardown with cleanup happens for Cache and RepositoryCache,
  98. avoiding leftover locks and TEMP dir contents, #285 (partially), #548
  99. - fix locking KeyError, partial fix for #502
  100. - log stats consistently, #526
  101. - add abbreviated weekday to timestamp format, fixes #496
  102. - strip whitespace when loading exclusions from file
  103. - unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking ssh, fixes strange OpenSSL library
  104. version warning when using the borg binary, #514
  105. - add some error handling/fallback for C library loading, #494
  106. - added BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING for check in "borg delete", #503
  107. - remove unused "repair" rpc method name
  108. New features:
  109. - borg create: implement exclusions using regular expression patterns.
  110. - borg create: implement inclusions using patterns.
  111. - borg extract: support patterns, #361
  112. - support different styles for patterns:
  113. - fnmatch (`fm:` prefix, default when omitted), like borg <= 0.29.
  114. - shell (`sh:` prefix) with `*` not matching directory separators and
  115. `**/` matching 0..n directories
  116. - path prefix (`pp:` prefix, for unifying borg create pp1 pp2 into the
  117. patterns system), semantics like in borg <= 0.29
  118. - regular expression (`re:`), new!
  119. - --progress option for borg upgrade (#291) and borg delete <archive>
  120. - update progress indication more often (e.g. for borg create within big
  121. files or for borg check repo), #500
  122. - finer chunker granularity for items metadata stream, #547, #487
  123. - borg create --list now used (additionally to -v) to enable the verbose
  124. file list output
  125. - display borg version below tracebacks, #532
  126. Other changes:
  127. - hashtable size (and thus: RAM and disk consumption) follows a growth policy:
  128. grows fast while small, grows slower when getting bigger, #527
  129. - Vagrantfile: use pyinstaller 3.1 to build binaries, freebsd sqlite3 fix,
  130. fixes #569
  131. - no separate binaries for centos6 any more because the generic linux binaries
  132. also work on centos6 (or in general: on systems with a slightly older glibc
  133. than debian7
  134. - dev environment: require virtualenv<14.0 so we get a py32 compatible pip
  135. - docs:
  136. - add space-saving chunks.archive.d trick to FAQ
  137. - important: clarify -v and log levels in usage -> general, please read!
  138. - sphinx configuration: create a simple man page from usage docs
  139. - add a repo server setup example
  140. - disable unneeded SSH features in authorized_keys examples for security.
  141. - borg prune only knows "--keep-within" and not "--within"
  142. - add gource video to resources docs, #507
  143. - add netbsd install instructions
  144. - authors: make it more clear what refers to borg and what to attic
  145. - document standalone binary requirements, #499
  146. - rephrase the mailing list section
  147. - development docs: run build_api and build_usage before tagging release
  148. - internals docs: hash table max. load factor is 0.75 now
  149. - markup, typo, grammar, phrasing, clarifications and other fixes.
  150. - add gcc gcc-c++ to redhat/fedora/corora install docs, fixes #583
  151. Version 0.29.0
  152. --------------
  153. Compatibility notes:
  154. - when upgrading to 0.29.0 you need to upgrade client as well as server
  155. installations due to the locking and commandline interface changes otherwise
  156. you'll get an error msg about a RPC protocol mismatch or a wrong commandline
  157. option.
  158. if you run a server that needs to support both old and new clients, it is
  159. suggested that you have a "borg-0.28.2" and a "borg-0.29.0" command.
  160. clients then can choose via e.g. "borg --remote-path=borg-0.29.0 ...".
  161. - the default waiting time for a lock changed from infinity to 1 second for a
  162. better interactive user experience. if the repo you want to access is
  163. currently locked, borg will now terminate after 1s with an error message.
  164. if you have scripts that shall wait for the lock for a longer time, use
  165. --lock-wait N (with N being the maximum wait time in seconds).
  166. Bug fixes:
  167. - hash table tuning (better chosen hashtable load factor 0.75 and prime initial
  168. size of 1031 gave ~1000x speedup in some scenarios)
  169. - avoid creation of an orphan lock for one case, #285
  170. - --keep-tag-files: fix file mode and multiple tag files in one directory, #432
  171. - fixes for "borg upgrade" (attic repo converter), #466
  172. - remove --progress isatty magic (and also --no-progress option) again, #476
  173. - borg init: display proper repo URL
  174. - fix format of umask in help pages, #463
  175. New features:
  176. - implement --lock-wait, support timeout for UpgradableLock, #210
  177. - implement borg break-lock command, #157
  178. - include system info below traceback, #324
  179. - sane remote logging, remote stderr, #461:
  180. - remote log output: intercept it and log it via local logging system,
  181. with "Remote: " prefixed to message. log remote tracebacks.
  182. - remote stderr: output it to local stderr with "Remote: " prefixed.
  183. - add --debug and --info (same as --verbose) to set the log level of the
  184. builtin logging configuration (which otherwise defaults to warning), #426
  185. note: there are few messages emitted at DEBUG level currently.
  186. - optionally configure logging via env var BORG_LOGGING_CONF
  187. - add --filter option for status characters: e.g. to show only the added
  188. or modified files (and also errors), use "borg create -v --filter=AME ...".
  189. - more progress indicators, #394
  190. - use ISO-8601 date and time format, #375
  191. - "borg check --prefix" to restrict archive checking to that name prefix, #206
  192. Other changes:
  193. - hashindex_add C implementation (speed up cache re-sync for new archives)
  194. - increase FUSE read_size to 1024 (speed up metadata operations)
  195. - check/delete/prune --save-space: free unused segments quickly, #239
  196. - increase rpc protocol version to 2 (see also Compatibility notes), #458
  197. - silence borg by default (via default log level WARNING)
  198. - get rid of C compiler warnings, #391
  199. - upgrade OS X FUSE to 3.0.9 on the OS X binary build system
  200. - use python 3.5.1 to build binaries
  201. - docs:
  202. - new mailing list borgbackup@python.org, #468
  203. - readthedocs: color and logo improvements
  204. - load coverage icons over SSL (avoids mixed content)
  205. - more precise binary installation steps
  206. - update release procedure docs about OS X FUSE
  207. - FAQ entry about unexpected 'A' status for unchanged file(s), #403
  208. - add docs about 'E' file status
  209. - add "borg upgrade" docs, #464
  210. - add developer docs about output and logging
  211. - clarify encryption, add note about client-side encryption
  212. - add resources section, with videos, talks, presentations, #149
  213. - Borg moved to Arch Linux [community]
  214. - fix wrong installation instructions for archlinux
  215. Version 0.28.2
  216. --------------
  217. New features:
  218. - borg create --exclude-if-present TAGFILE - exclude directories that have the
  219. given file from the backup. You can additionally give --keep-tag-files to
  220. preserve just the directory roots and the tag-files (but not backup other
  221. directory contents), #395, attic #128, attic #142
  222. Other changes:
  223. - do not create docs sources at build time (just have them in the repo),
  224. completely remove have_cython() hack, do not use the "mock" library at build
  225. time, #384
  226. - avoid hidden import, make it easier for PyInstaller, easier fix for #218
  227. - docs:
  228. - add description of item flags / status output, fixes #402
  229. - explain how to regenerate usage and API files (build_api or
  230. build_usage) and when to commit usage files directly into git, #384
  231. - minor install docs improvements
  232. Version 0.28.1
  233. --------------
  234. Bug fixes:
  235. - do not try to build api / usage docs for production install,
  236. fixes unexpected "mock" build dependency, #384
  237. Other changes:
  238. - avoid using msgpack.packb at import time
  239. - fix formatting issue in changes.rst
  240. - fix build on readthedocs
  241. Version 0.28.0
  242. --------------
  243. Compatibility notes:
  244. - changed return codes (exit codes), see docs. in short:
  245. old: 0 = ok, 1 = error. now: 0 = ok, 1 = warning, 2 = error
  246. New features:
  247. - refactor return codes (exit codes), fixes #61
  248. - add --show-rc option enable "terminating with X status, rc N" output, fixes 58, #351
  249. - borg create backups atime and ctime additionally to mtime, fixes #317
  250. - extract: support atime additionally to mtime
  251. - FUSE: support ctime and atime additionally to mtime
  252. - support borg --version
  253. - emit a warning if we have a slow msgpack installed
  254. - borg list --prefix=thishostname- REPO, fixes #205
  255. - Debug commands (do not use except if you know what you do: debug-get-obj,
  256. debug-put-obj, debug-delete-obj, debug-dump-archive-items.
  257. Bug fixes:
  258. - setup.py: fix bug related to BORG_LZ4_PREFIX processing
  259. - fix "check" for repos that have incomplete chunks, fixes #364
  260. - borg mount: fix unlocking of repository at umount time, fixes #331
  261. - fix reading files without touching their atime, #334
  262. - non-ascii ACL fixes for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X, #277
  263. - fix acl_use_local_uid_gid() and add a test for it, attic #359
  264. - borg upgrade: do not upgrade repositories in place by default, #299
  265. - fix cascading failure with the index conversion code, #269
  266. - borg check: implement 'cmdline' archive metadata value decoding, #311
  267. - fix RobustUnpacker, it missed some metadata keys (new atime and ctime keys
  268. were missing, but also bsdflags). add check for unknown metadata keys.
  269. - create from stdin: also save atime, ctime (cosmetic)
  270. - use default_notty=False for confirmations, fixes #345
  271. - vagrant: fix msgpack installation on centos, fixes #342
  272. - deal with unicode errors for symlinks in same way as for regular files and
  273. have a helpful warning message about how to fix wrong locale setup, fixes #382
  274. - add ACL keys the RobustUnpacker must know about
  275. Other changes:
  276. - improve file size displays, more flexible size formatters
  277. - explicitly commit to the units standard, #289
  278. - archiver: add E status (means that an error occurred when processing this
  279. (single) item
  280. - do binary releases via "github releases", closes #214
  281. - create: use -x and --one-file-system (was: --do-not-cross-mountpoints), #296
  282. - a lot of changes related to using "logging" module and screen output, #233
  283. - show progress display if on a tty, output more progress information, #303
  284. - factor out status output so it is consistent, fix surrogates removal,
  285. maybe fixes #309
  286. - move away from RawConfigParser to ConfigParser
  287. - archive checker: better error logging, give chunk_id and sequence numbers
  288. (can be used together with borg debug-dump-archive-items).
  289. - do not mention the deprecated passphrase mode
  290. - emit a deprecation warning for --compression N (giving a just a number)
  291. - misc .coverragerc fixes (and coverage measurement improvements), fixes #319
  292. - refactor confirmation code, reduce code duplication, add tests
  293. - prettier error messages, fixes #307, #57
  294. - tests:
  295. - add a test to find disk-full issues, #327
  296. - travis: also run tests on Python 3.5
  297. - travis: use tox -r so it rebuilds the tox environments
  298. - test the generated pyinstaller-based binary by archiver unit tests, #215
  299. - vagrant: tests: announce whether fakeroot is used or not
  300. - vagrant: add vagrant user to fuse group for debianoid systems also
  301. - vagrant: llfuse install on darwin needs pkgconfig installed
  302. - vagrant: use pyinstaller from develop branch, fixes #336
  303. - benchmarks: test create, extract, list, delete, info, check, help, fixes #146
  304. - benchmarks: test with both the binary and the python code
  305. - archiver tests: test with both the binary and the python code, fixes #215
  306. - make basic test more robust
  307. - docs:
  308. - moved docs to borgbackup.readthedocs.org, #155
  309. - a lot of fixes and improvements, use mobile-friendly RTD standard theme
  310. - use zlib,6 compression in some examples, fixes #275
  311. - add missing rename usage to docs, closes #279
  312. - include the help offered by borg help <topic> in the usage docs, fixes #293
  313. - include a list of major changes compared to attic into README, fixes #224
  314. - add OS X install instructions, #197
  315. - more details about the release process, #260
  316. - fix linux glibc requirement (binaries built on debian7 now)
  317. - build: move usage and API generation to setup.py
  318. - update docs about return codes, #61
  319. - remove api docs (too much breakage on rtd)
  320. - borgbackup install + basics presentation (asciinema)
  321. - describe the current style guide in documentation
  322. - add section about debug commands
  323. - warn about not running out of space
  324. - add example for rename
  325. - improve chunker params docs, fixes #362
  326. - minor development docs update
  327. Version 0.27.0
  328. --------------
  329. New features:
  330. - "borg upgrade" command - attic -> borg one time converter / migration, #21
  331. - temporary hack to avoid using lots of disk space for chunks.archive.d, #235:
  332. To use it: rm -rf chunks.archive.d ; touch chunks.archive.d
  333. - respect XDG_CACHE_HOME, attic #181
  334. - add support for arbitrary SSH commands, attic #99
  335. - borg delete --cache-only REPO (only delete cache, not REPO), attic #123
  336. Bug fixes:
  337. - use Debian 7 (wheezy) to build pyinstaller borgbackup binaries, fixes slow
  338. down observed when running the Centos6-built binary on Ubuntu, #222
  339. - do not crash on empty lock.roster, fixes #232
  340. - fix multiple issues with the cache config version check, #234
  341. - fix segment entry header size check, attic #352
  342. plus other error handling improvements / code deduplication there.
  343. - always give segment and offset in repo IntegrityErrors
  344. Other changes:
  345. - stop producing binary wheels, remove docs about it, #147
  346. - docs:
  347. - add warning about prune
  348. - generate usage include files only as needed
  349. - development docs: add Vagrant section
  350. - update / improve / reformat FAQ
  351. - hint to single-file pyinstaller binaries from README
  352. Version 0.26.1
  353. --------------
  354. This is a minor update, just docs and new pyinstaller binaries.
  355. - docs update about python and binary requirements
  356. - better docs for --read-special, fix #220
  357. - re-built the binaries, fix #218 and #213 (glibc version issue)
  358. - update web site about single-file pyinstaller binaries
  359. Note: if you did a python-based installation, there is no need to upgrade.
  360. Version 0.26.0
  361. --------------
  362. New features:
  363. - Faster cache sync (do all in one pass, remove tar/compression stuff), #163
  364. - BORG_REPO env var to specify the default repo, #168
  365. - read special files as if they were regular files, #79
  366. - implement borg create --dry-run, attic issue #267
  367. - Normalize paths before pattern matching on OS X, #143
  368. - support OpenBSD and NetBSD (except xattrs/ACLs)
  369. - support / run tests on Python 3.5
  370. Bug fixes:
  371. - borg mount repo: use absolute path, attic #200, attic #137
  372. - chunker: use off_t to get 64bit on 32bit platform, #178
  373. - initialize chunker fd to -1, so it's not equal to STDIN_FILENO (0)
  374. - fix reaction to "no" answer at delete repo prompt, #182
  375. - setup.py: detect lz4.h header file location
  376. - to support python < 3.2.4, add less buggy argparse lib from 3.2.6 (#194)
  377. - fix for obtaining ``char *`` from temporary Python value (old code causes
  378. a compile error on Mint 17.2)
  379. - llfuse 0.41 install troubles on some platforms, require < 0.41
  380. (UnicodeDecodeError exception due to non-ascii llfuse setup.py)
  381. - cython code: add some int types to get rid of unspecific python add /
  382. subtract operations (avoid ``undefined symbol FPE_``... error on some platforms)
  383. - fix verbose mode display of stdin backup
  384. - extract: warn if a include pattern never matched, fixes #209,
  385. implement counters for Include/ExcludePatterns
  386. - archive names with slashes are invalid, attic issue #180
  387. - chunker: add a check whether the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED constant is defined -
  388. fixes building on OpenBSD.
  389. Other changes:
  390. - detect inconsistency / corruption / hash collision, #170
  391. - replace versioneer with setuptools_scm, #106
  392. - docs:
  393. - pkg-config is needed for llfuse installation
  394. - be more clear about pruning, attic issue #132
  395. - unit tests:
  396. - xattr: ignore security.selinux attribute showing up
  397. - ext3 seems to need a bit more space for a sparse file
  398. - do not test lzma level 9 compression (avoid MemoryError)
  399. - work around strange mtime granularity issue on netbsd, fixes #204
  400. - ignore st_rdev if file is not a block/char device, fixes #203
  401. - stay away from the setgid and sticky mode bits
  402. - use Vagrant to do easy cross-platform testing (#196), currently:
  403. - Debian 7 "wheezy" 32bit, Debian 8 "jessie" 64bit
  404. - Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
  405. - Centos 7 64bit
  406. - FreeBSD 10.2 64bit
  407. - OpenBSD 5.7 64bit
  408. - NetBSD 6.1.5 64bit
  409. - Darwin (OS X Yosemite)
  410. Version 0.25.0
  411. --------------
  412. Compatibility notes:
  413. - lz4 compression library (liblz4) is a new requirement (#156)
  414. - the new compression code is very compatible: as long as you stay with zlib
  415. compression, older borg releases will still be able to read data from a
  416. repo/archive made with the new code (note: this is not the case for the
  417. default "none" compression, use "zlib,0" if you want a "no compression" mode
  418. that can be read by older borg). Also the new code is able to read repos and
  419. archives made with older borg versions (for all zlib levels 0..9).
  420. Deprecations:
  421. - --compression N (with N being a number, as in 0.24) is deprecated.
  422. We keep the --compression 0..9 for now to not break scripts, but it is
  423. deprecated and will be removed later, so better fix your scripts now:
  424. --compression 0 (as in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,0 (now).
  425. BUT: if you do not want compression, you rather want --compression none
  426. (which is the default).
  427. --compression 1 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,1 (now)
  428. --compression 9 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,9 (now)
  429. New features:
  430. - create --compression none (default, means: do not compress, just pass through
  431. data "as is". this is more efficient than zlib level 0 as used in borg 0.24)
  432. - create --compression lz4 (super-fast, but not very high compression)
  433. - create --compression zlib,N (slower, higher compression, default for N is 6)
  434. - create --compression lzma,N (slowest, highest compression, default N is 6)
  435. - honor the nodump flag (UF_NODUMP) and do not backup such items
  436. - list --short just outputs a simple list of the files/directories in an archive
  437. Bug fixes:
  438. - fixed --chunker-params parameter order confusion / malfunction, fixes #154
  439. - close fds of segments we delete (during compaction)
  440. - close files which fell out the lrucache
  441. - fadvise DONTNEED now is only called for the byte range actually read, not for
  442. the whole file, fixes #158.
  443. - fix issue with negative "all archives" size, fixes #165
  444. - restore_xattrs: ignore if setxattr fails with EACCES, fixes #162
  445. Other changes:
  446. - remove fakeroot requirement for tests, tests run faster without fakeroot
  447. (test setup does not fail any more without fakeroot, so you can run with or
  448. without fakeroot), fixes #151 and #91.
  449. - more tests for archiver
  450. - recover_segment(): don't assume we have an fd for segment
  451. - lrucache refactoring / cleanup, add dispose function, py.test tests
  452. - generalize hashindex code for any key length (less hardcoding)
  453. - lock roster: catch file not found in remove() method and ignore it
  454. - travis CI: use requirements file
  455. - improved docs:
  456. - replace hack for llfuse with proper solution (install libfuse-dev)
  457. - update docs about compression
  458. - update development docs about fakeroot
  459. - internals: add some words about lock files / locking system
  460. - support: mention BountySource and for what it can be used
  461. - theme: use a lighter green
  462. - add pypi, wheel, dist package based install docs
  463. - split install docs into system-specific preparations and generic instructions
  464. Version 0.24.0
  465. --------------
  466. Incompatible changes (compared to 0.23):
  467. - borg now always issues --umask NNN option when invoking another borg via ssh
  468. on the repository server. By that, it's making sure it uses the same umask
  469. for remote repos as for local ones. Because of this, you must upgrade both
  470. server and client(s) to 0.24.
  471. - the default umask is 077 now (if you do not specify via --umask) which might
  472. be a different one as you used previously. The default umask avoids that
  473. you accidentally give access permissions for group and/or others to files
  474. created by borg (e.g. the repository).
  475. Deprecations:
  476. - "--encryption passphrase" mode is deprecated, see #85 and #97.
  477. See the new "--encryption repokey" mode for a replacement.
  478. New features:
  479. - borg create --chunker-params ... to configure the chunker, fixes #16
  480. (attic #302, attic #300, and somehow also #41).
  481. This can be used to reduce memory usage caused by chunk management overhead,
  482. so borg does not create a huge chunks index/repo index and eats all your RAM
  483. if you back up lots of data in huge files (like VM disk images).
  484. See docs/misc/create_chunker-params.txt for more information.
  485. - borg info now reports chunk counts in the chunk index.
  486. - borg create --compression 0..9 to select zlib compression level, fixes #66
  487. (attic #295).
  488. - borg init --encryption repokey (to store the encryption key into the repo),
  489. fixes #85
  490. - improve at-end error logging, always log exceptions and set exit_code=1
  491. - LoggedIO: better error checks / exceptions / exception handling
  492. - implement --remote-path to allow non-default-path borg locations, #125
  493. - implement --umask M and use 077 as default umask for better security, #117
  494. - borg check: give a named single archive to it, fixes #139
  495. - cache sync: show progress indication
  496. - cache sync: reimplement the chunk index merging in C
  497. Bug fixes:
  498. - fix segfault that happened for unreadable files (chunker: n needs to be a
  499. signed size_t), #116
  500. - fix the repair mode, #144
  501. - repo delete: add destroy to allowed rpc methods, fixes issue #114
  502. - more compatible repository locking code (based on mkdir), maybe fixes #92
  503. (attic #317, attic #201).
  504. - better Exception msg if no Borg is installed on the remote repo server, #56
  505. - create a RepositoryCache implementation that can cope with >2GiB,
  506. fixes attic #326.
  507. - fix Traceback when running check --repair, attic #232
  508. - clarify help text, fixes #73.
  509. - add help string for --no-files-cache, fixes #140
  510. Other changes:
  511. - improved docs:
  512. - added docs/misc directory for misc. writeups that won't be included
  513. "as is" into the html docs.
  514. - document environment variables and return codes (attic #324, attic #52)
  515. - web site: add related projects, fix web site url, IRC #borgbackup
  516. - Fedora/Fedora-based install instructions added to docs
  517. - Cygwin-based install instructions added to docs
  518. - updated AUTHORS
  519. - add FAQ entries about redundancy / integrity
  520. - clarify that borg extract uses the cwd as extraction target
  521. - update internals doc about chunker params, memory usage and compression
  522. - added docs about development
  523. - add some words about resource usage in general
  524. - document how to backup a raw disk
  525. - add note about how to run borg from virtual env
  526. - add solutions for (ll)fuse installation problems
  527. - document what borg check does, fixes #138
  528. - reorganize borgbackup.github.io sidebar, prev/next at top
  529. - deduplicate and refactor the docs / README.rst
  530. - use borg-tmp as prefix for temporary files / directories
  531. - short prune options without "keep-" are deprecated, do not suggest them
  532. - improved tox configuration
  533. - remove usage of unittest.mock, always use mock from pypi
  534. - use entrypoints instead of scripts, for better use of the wheel format and
  535. modern installs
  536. - add requirements.d/development.txt and modify tox.ini
  537. - use travis-ci for testing based on Linux and (new) OS X
  538. - use coverage.py, pytest-cov and codecov.io for test coverage support
  539. I forgot to list some stuff already implemented in 0.23.0, here they are:
  540. New features:
  541. - efficient archive list from manifest, meaning a big speedup for slow
  542. repo connections and "list <repo>", "delete <repo>", "prune" (attic #242,
  543. attic #167)
  544. - big speedup for chunks cache sync (esp. for slow repo connections), fixes #18
  545. - hashindex: improve error messages
  546. Other changes:
  547. - explicitly specify binary mode to open binary files
  548. - some easy micro optimizations
  549. Version 0.23.0
  550. --------------
  551. Incompatible changes (compared to attic, fork related):
  552. - changed sw name and cli command to "borg", updated docs
  553. - package name (and name in urls) uses "borgbackup" to have less collisions
  554. - changed repo / cache internal magic strings from ATTIC* to BORG*,
  555. changed cache location to .cache/borg/ - this means that it currently won't
  556. accept attic repos (see issue #21 about improving that)
  557. Bug fixes:
  558. - avoid defect python-msgpack releases, fixes attic #171, fixes attic #185
  559. - fix traceback when trying to do unsupported passphrase change, fixes attic #189
  560. - datetime does not like the year 10.000, fixes attic #139
  561. - fix "info" all archives stats, fixes attic #183
  562. - fix parsing with missing microseconds, fixes attic #282
  563. - fix misleading hint the fuse ImportError handler gave, fixes attic #237
  564. - check unpacked data from RPC for tuple type and correct length, fixes attic #127
  565. - fix Repository._active_txn state when lock upgrade fails
  566. - give specific path to xattr.is_enabled(), disable symlink setattr call that
  567. always fails
  568. - fix test setup for 32bit platforms, partial fix for attic #196
  569. - upgraded versioneer, PEP440 compliance, fixes attic #257
  570. New features:
  571. - less memory usage: add global option --no-cache-files
  572. - check --last N (only check the last N archives)
  573. - check: sort archives in reverse time order
  574. - rename repo::oldname newname (rename repository)
  575. - create -v output more informative
  576. - create --progress (backup progress indicator)
  577. - create --timestamp (utc string or reference file/dir)
  578. - create: if "-" is given as path, read binary from stdin
  579. - extract: if --stdout is given, write all extracted binary data to stdout
  580. - extract --sparse (simple sparse file support)
  581. - extra debug information for 'fread failed'
  582. - delete <repo> (deletes whole repo + local cache)
  583. - FUSE: reflect deduplication in allocated blocks
  584. - only allow whitelisted RPC calls in server mode
  585. - normalize source/exclude paths before matching
  586. - use posix_fadvise to not spoil the OS cache, fixes attic #252
  587. - toplevel error handler: show tracebacks for better error analysis
  588. - sigusr1 / sigint handler to print current file infos - attic PR #286
  589. - RPCError: include the exception args we get from remote
  590. Other changes:
  591. - source: misc. cleanups, pep8, style
  592. - docs and faq improvements, fixes, updates
  593. - cleanup crypto.pyx, make it easier to adapt to other AES modes
  594. - do os.fsync like recommended in the python docs
  595. - source: Let chunker optionally work with os-level file descriptor.
  596. - source: Linux: remove duplicate os.fsencode calls
  597. - source: refactor _open_rb code a bit, so it is more consistent / regular
  598. - source: refactor indicator (status) and item processing
  599. - source: use py.test for better testing, flake8 for code style checks
  600. - source: fix tox >=2.0 compatibility (test runner)
  601. - pypi package: add python version classifiers, add FreeBSD to platforms
  602. Attic Changelog
  603. ---------------
  604. Here you can see the full list of changes between each Attic release until Borg
  605. forked from Attic:
  606. Version 0.17
  607. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  608. (bugfix release, released on X)
  609. - Fix hashindex ARM memory alignment issue (#309)
  610. - Improve hashindex error messages (#298)
  611. Version 0.16
  612. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  613. (bugfix release, released on May 16, 2015)
  614. - Fix typo preventing the security confirmation prompt from working (#303)
  615. - Improve handling of systems with improperly configured file system encoding (#289)
  616. - Fix "All archives" output for attic info. (#183)
  617. - More user friendly error message when repository key file is not found (#236)
  618. - Fix parsing of iso 8601 timestamps with zero microseconds (#282)
  619. Version 0.15
  620. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  621. (bugfix release, released on Apr 15, 2015)
  622. - xattr: Be less strict about unknown/unsupported platforms (#239)
  623. - Reduce repository listing memory usage (#163).
  624. - Fix BrokenPipeError for remote repositories (#233)
  625. - Fix incorrect behavior with two character directory names (#265, #268)
  626. - Require approval before accessing relocated/moved repository (#271)
  627. - Require approval before accessing previously unknown unencrypted repositories (#271)
  628. - Fix issue with hash index files larger than 2GB.
  629. - Fix Python 3.2 compatibility issue with noatime open() (#164)
  630. - Include missing pyx files in dist files (#168)
  631. Version 0.14
  632. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  633. (feature release, released on Dec 17, 2014)
  634. - Added support for stripping leading path segments (#95)
  635. "attic extract --strip-segments X"
  636. - Add workaround for old Linux systems without acl_extended_file_no_follow (#96)
  637. - Add MacPorts' path to the default openssl search path (#101)
  638. - HashIndex improvements, eliminates unnecessary IO on low memory systems.
  639. - Fix "Number of files" output for attic info. (#124)
  640. - limit create file permissions so files aren't read while restoring
  641. - Fix issue with empty xattr values (#106)
  642. Version 0.13
  643. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  644. (feature release, released on Jun 29, 2014)
  645. - Fix sporadic "Resource temporarily unavailable" when using remote repositories
  646. - Reduce file cache memory usage (#90)
  647. - Faster AES encryption (utilizing AES-NI when available)
  648. - Experimental Linux, OS X and FreeBSD ACL support (#66)
  649. - Added support for backup and restore of BSDFlags (OSX, FreeBSD) (#56)
  650. - Fix bug where xattrs on symlinks were not correctly restored
  651. - Added cachedir support. CACHEDIR.TAG compatible cache directories
  652. can now be excluded using ``--exclude-caches`` (#74)
  653. - Fix crash on extreme mtime timestamps (year 2400+) (#81)
  654. - Fix Python 3.2 specific lockf issue (EDEADLK)
  655. Version 0.12
  656. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  657. (feature release, released on April 7, 2014)
  658. - Python 3.4 support (#62)
  659. - Various documentation improvements a new style
  660. - ``attic mount`` now supports mounting an entire repository not only
  661. individual archives (#59)
  662. - Added option to restrict remote repository access to specific path(s):
  663. ``attic serve --restrict-to-path X`` (#51)
  664. - Include "all archives" size information in "--stats" output. (#54)
  665. - Added ``--stats`` option to ``attic delete`` and ``attic prune``
  666. - Fixed bug where ``attic prune`` used UTC instead of the local time zone
  667. when determining which archives to keep.
  668. - Switch to SI units (Power of 1000 instead 1024) when printing file sizes
  669. Version 0.11
  670. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  671. (feature release, released on March 7, 2014)
  672. - New "check" command for repository consistency checking (#24)
  673. - Documentation improvements
  674. - Fix exception during "attic create" with repeated files (#39)
  675. - New "--exclude-from" option for attic create/extract/verify.
  676. - Improved archive metadata deduplication.
  677. - "attic verify" has been deprecated. Use "attic extract --dry-run" instead.
  678. - "attic prune --hourly|daily|..." has been deprecated.
  679. Use "attic prune --keep-hourly|daily|..." instead.
  680. - Ignore xattr errors during "extract" if not supported by the filesystem. (#46)
  681. Version 0.10
  682. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  683. (bugfix release, released on Jan 30, 2014)
  684. - Fix deadlock when extracting 0 sized files from remote repositories
  685. - "--exclude" wildcard patterns are now properly applied to the full path
  686. not just the file name part (#5).
  687. - Make source code endianness agnostic (#1)
  688. Version 0.9
  689. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  690. (feature release, released on Jan 23, 2014)
  691. - Remote repository speed and reliability improvements.
  692. - Fix sorting of segment names to ignore NFS left over files. (#17)
  693. - Fix incorrect display of time (#13)
  694. - Improved error handling / reporting. (#12)
  695. - Use fcntl() instead of flock() when locking repository/cache. (#15)
  696. - Let ssh figure out port/user if not specified so we don't override .ssh/config (#9)
  697. - Improved libcrypto path detection (#23).
  698. Version 0.8.1
  699. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  700. (bugfix release, released on Oct 4, 2013)
  701. - Fix segmentation fault issue.
  702. Version 0.8
  703. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  704. (feature release, released on Oct 3, 2013)
  705. - Fix xattr issue when backing up sshfs filesystems (#4)
  706. - Fix issue with excessive index file size (#6)
  707. - Support access of read only repositories.
  708. - New syntax to enable repository encryption:
  709. attic init --encryption="none|passphrase|keyfile".
  710. - Detect and abort if repository is older than the cache.
  711. Version 0.7
  712. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  713. (feature release, released on Aug 5, 2013)
  714. - Ported to FreeBSD
  715. - Improved documentation
  716. - Experimental: Archives mountable as fuse filesystems.
  717. - The "user." prefix is no longer stripped from xattrs on Linux
  718. Version 0.6.1
  719. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  720. (bugfix release, released on July 19, 2013)
  721. - Fixed an issue where mtime was not always correctly restored.
  722. Version 0.6
  723. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  724. First public release on July 9, 2013