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  1. Changelog
  2. =========
  3. Version 1.0.1 (not released yet)
  4. --------------------------------
  5. New features:
  6. Usually there are no new features in a bugfix release, but this one was added
  7. to get it out quickly as it can improve your repository safety/security:
  8. - append-only mode for repositories, #809, #36 (see docs)
  9. Bug fixes:
  10. - fix silently skipping EIO, #748
  11. - add context manager for Repository (avoid orphan repository locks), #285
  12. - do not sleep for >60s while waiting for lock, #773
  13. - unpack file stats before passing to FUSE
  14. - fix build on illumos
  15. - don't try to backup doors or event ports (Solaris and derivates)
  16. - fix capitalization, add ellipses, change log level to debug for 2 messages, fixes #798
  17. - remove useless/misleading libc version display, #738
  18. Other changes:
  19. - update llfuse requirement, llfuse 1.0 works
  20. - update OS / dist packages on build machines, #717
  21. - docs:
  22. - fix cygwin requirements (gcc-g++)
  23. - document how to debug / file filesystem issues, #664
  24. - fix reproducible build of api docs
  25. - RTD theme: CSS !important overwrite, #727
  26. - Document logo font. Recreate logo png. Remove GIMP logo file.
  27. Version 1.0.0
  28. -------------
  29. The major release number change (0.x -> 1.x) indicates bigger incompatible
  30. changes, please read the compatibility notes, adapt / test your scripts and
  31. check your backup logs.
  32. Compatibility notes:
  33. - drop support for python 3.2 and 3.3, require 3.4 or 3.5, #221 #65 #490
  34. note: we provide binaries that include python 3.5.1 and everything else
  35. needed. they are an option in case you are stuck with < 3.4 otherwise.
  36. - change encryption to be on by default (using "repokey" mode)
  37. - moved keyfile keys from ~/.borg/keys to ~/.config/borg/keys,
  38. you can either move them manually or run "borg upgrade <REPO>"
  39. - remove support for --encryption=passphrase,
  40. use borg migrate-to-repokey to switch to repokey mode, #97
  41. - remove deprecated --compression <number>,
  42. use --compression zlib,<number> instead
  43. in case of 0, you could also use --compression none
  44. - remove deprecated --hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly
  45. use --keep-hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly instead
  46. - remove deprecated --do-not-cross-mountpoints,
  47. use --one-file-system instead
  48. - disambiguate -p option, #563:
  49. - -p now is same as --progress
  50. - -P now is same as --prefix
  51. - remove deprecated "borg verify",
  52. use "borg extract --dry-run" instead
  53. - cleanup environment variable semantics, #355
  54. the environment variables used to be "yes sayers" when set, this was
  55. conceptually generalized to "automatic answerers" and they just give their
  56. value as answer (as if you typed in that value when being asked).
  57. See the "usage" / "Environment Variables" section of the docs for details.
  58. - change the builtin default for --chunker-params, create 2MiB chunks, #343
  59. --chunker-params new default: 19,23,21,4095 - old default: 10,23,16,4095
  60. one of the biggest issues with borg < 1.0 (and also attic) was that it had a
  61. default target chunk size of 64kiB, thus it created a lot of chunks and thus
  62. also a huge chunk management overhead (high RAM and disk usage).
  63. please note that the new default won't change the chunks that you already
  64. have in your repository. the new big chunks do not deduplicate with the old
  65. small chunks, so expect your repo to grow at least by the size of every
  66. changed file and in the worst case (e.g. if your files cache was lost / is
  67. not used) by the size of every file (minus any compression you might use).
  68. in case you want to immediately see a much lower resource usage (RAM / disk)
  69. for chunks management, it might be better to start with a new repo than
  70. continuing in the existing repo (with an existing repo, you'ld have to wait
  71. until all archives with small chunks got pruned to see a lower resource
  72. usage).
  73. if you used the old --chunker-params default value (or if you did not use
  74. --chunker-params option at all) and you'ld like to continue using small
  75. chunks (and you accept the huge resource usage that comes with that), just
  76. explicitly use borg create --chunker-params=10,23,16,4095.
  77. - archive timestamps: the 'time' timestamp now refers to archive creation
  78. start time (was: end time), the new 'time_end' timestamp refers to archive
  79. creation end time. This might affect prune if your backups take rather long.
  80. if you give a timestamp via cli this is stored into 'time', therefore it now
  81. needs to mean archive creation start time.
  82. New features:
  83. - implement password roundtrip, #695
  84. Bug fixes:
  85. - remote end does not need cache nor keys directories, do not create them, #701
  86. - added retry counter for passwords, #703
  87. Other changes:
  88. - fix compiler warnings, #697
  89. - docs:
  90. - update README.rst to new changelog location in docs/changes.rst
  91. - add Teemu to AUTHORS
  92. - changes.rst: fix old chunker params, #698
  93. - FAQ: how to limit bandwidth
  94. Version 1.0.0rc2
  95. ----------------
  96. New features:
  97. - format options for location: user, pid, fqdn, hostname, now, utcnow, user
  98. - borg list --list-format
  99. - borg prune -v --list enables the keep/prune list output, #658
  100. Bug fixes:
  101. - fix _open_rb noatime handling, #657
  102. - add a simple archivename validator, #680
  103. - borg create --stats: show timestamps in localtime, use same labels/formatting
  104. as borg info, #651
  105. - llfuse compatibility fixes (now compatible with: 0.40, 0.41, 0.42)
  106. Other changes:
  107. - it is now possible to use "pip install borgbackup[fuse]" to automatically
  108. install the llfuse dependency using the correct version requirement
  109. for it. you still need to care about having installed the FUSE / build
  110. related OS package first, though, so that building llfuse can succeed.
  111. - Vagrant: drop Ubuntu Precise (12.04) - does not have Python >= 3.4
  112. - Vagrant: use pyinstaller v3.1.1 to build binaries
  113. - docs:
  114. - borg upgrade: add to docs that only LOCAL repos are supported
  115. - borg upgrade also handles borg 0.xx -> 1.0
  116. - use pip extras or requirements file to install llfuse
  117. - fix order in release process
  118. - updated usage docs and other minor / cosmetic fixes
  119. - verified borg examples in docs, #644
  120. - freebsd dependency installation and fuse configuration, #649
  121. - add example how to restore a raw device, #671
  122. - add a hint about the dev headers needed when installing from source
  123. - add examples for delete (and handle delete after list, before prune), #656
  124. - update example for borg create -v --stats (use iso datetime format), #663
  125. - added example to BORG_RSH docs
  126. - "connection closed by remote": add FAQ entry and point to issue #636
  127. Version 1.0.0rc1
  128. ----------------
  129. New features:
  130. - borg migrate-to-repokey ("passphrase" -> "repokey" encryption key mode)
  131. - implement --short for borg list REPO, #611
  132. - implement --list for borg extract (consistency with borg create)
  133. - borg serve: overwrite client's --restrict-to-path with ssh forced command's
  134. option value (but keep everything else from the client commandline), #544
  135. - use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/keys for keyfile keys (~/.config/borg/keys), #515
  136. - "borg upgrade" moves the keyfile keys to the new location
  137. - display both archive creation start and end time in "borg info", #627
  138. Bug fixes:
  139. - normalize trailing slashes for the repository path, #606
  140. - Cache: fix exception handling in __init__, release lock, #610
  141. Other changes:
  142. - suppress unneeded exception context (PEP 409), simpler tracebacks
  143. - removed special code needed to deal with imperfections / incompatibilities /
  144. missing stuff in py 3.2/3.3, simplify code that can be done simpler in 3.4
  145. - removed some version requirements that were kept on old versions because
  146. newer did not support py 3.2 any more
  147. - use some py 3.4+ stdlib code instead of own/openssl/pypi code:
  148. - use os.urandom instead of own cython openssl RAND_bytes wrapper, #493
  149. - use hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from py stdlib instead of own openssl wrapper
  150. - use hmac.compare_digest instead of == operator (constant time comparison)
  151. - use stat.filemode instead of homegrown code
  152. - use "mock" library from stdlib, #145
  153. - remove borg.support (with non-broken argparse copy), it is ok in 3.4+, #358
  154. - Vagrant: copy CHANGES.rst as symlink, #592
  155. - cosmetic code cleanups, add flake8 to tox/travis, #4
  156. - docs / help:
  157. - make "borg -h" output prettier, #591
  158. - slightly rephrase prune help
  159. - add missing example for --list option of borg create
  160. - quote exclude line that includes an asterisk to prevent shell expansion
  161. - fix dead link to license
  162. - delete Ubuntu Vivid, it is not supported anymore (EOL)
  163. - OS X binary does not work for older OS X releases, #629
  164. - borg serve's special support for forced/original ssh commands, #544
  165. - misc. updates and fixes
  166. Version 0.30.0
  167. --------------
  168. Compatibility notes:
  169. - you may need to use -v (or --info) more often to actually see output emitted
  170. at INFO log level (because it is suppressed at the default WARNING log level).
  171. See the "general" section in the usage docs.
  172. - for borg create, you need --list (additionally to -v) to see the long file
  173. list (was needed so you can have e.g. --stats alone without the long list)
  174. - see below about BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING (was:
  175. BORG_CHECK_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING)
  176. Bug fixes:
  177. - fix crash when using borg create --dry-run --keep-tag-files, #570
  178. - make sure teardown with cleanup happens for Cache and RepositoryCache,
  179. avoiding leftover locks and TEMP dir contents, #285 (partially), #548
  180. - fix locking KeyError, partial fix for #502
  181. - log stats consistently, #526
  182. - add abbreviated weekday to timestamp format, fixes #496
  183. - strip whitespace when loading exclusions from file
  184. - unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking ssh, fixes strange OpenSSL library
  185. version warning when using the borg binary, #514
  186. - add some error handling/fallback for C library loading, #494
  187. - added BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING for check in "borg delete", #503
  188. - remove unused "repair" rpc method name
  189. New features:
  190. - borg create: implement exclusions using regular expression patterns.
  191. - borg create: implement inclusions using patterns.
  192. - borg extract: support patterns, #361
  193. - support different styles for patterns:
  194. - fnmatch (`fm:` prefix, default when omitted), like borg <= 0.29.
  195. - shell (`sh:` prefix) with `*` not matching directory separators and
  196. `**/` matching 0..n directories
  197. - path prefix (`pp:` prefix, for unifying borg create pp1 pp2 into the
  198. patterns system), semantics like in borg <= 0.29
  199. - regular expression (`re:`), new!
  200. - --progress option for borg upgrade (#291) and borg delete <archive>
  201. - update progress indication more often (e.g. for borg create within big
  202. files or for borg check repo), #500
  203. - finer chunker granularity for items metadata stream, #547, #487
  204. - borg create --list now used (additionally to -v) to enable the verbose
  205. file list output
  206. - display borg version below tracebacks, #532
  207. Other changes:
  208. - hashtable size (and thus: RAM and disk consumption) follows a growth policy:
  209. grows fast while small, grows slower when getting bigger, #527
  210. - Vagrantfile: use pyinstaller 3.1 to build binaries, freebsd sqlite3 fix,
  211. fixes #569
  212. - no separate binaries for centos6 any more because the generic linux binaries
  213. also work on centos6 (or in general: on systems with a slightly older glibc
  214. than debian7
  215. - dev environment: require virtualenv<14.0 so we get a py32 compatible pip
  216. - docs:
  217. - add space-saving chunks.archive.d trick to FAQ
  218. - important: clarify -v and log levels in usage -> general, please read!
  219. - sphinx configuration: create a simple man page from usage docs
  220. - add a repo server setup example
  221. - disable unneeded SSH features in authorized_keys examples for security.
  222. - borg prune only knows "--keep-within" and not "--within"
  223. - add gource video to resources docs, #507
  224. - add netbsd install instructions
  225. - authors: make it more clear what refers to borg and what to attic
  226. - document standalone binary requirements, #499
  227. - rephrase the mailing list section
  228. - development docs: run build_api and build_usage before tagging release
  229. - internals docs: hash table max. load factor is 0.75 now
  230. - markup, typo, grammar, phrasing, clarifications and other fixes.
  231. - add gcc gcc-c++ to redhat/fedora/corora install docs, fixes #583
  232. Version 0.29.0
  233. --------------
  234. Compatibility notes:
  235. - when upgrading to 0.29.0 you need to upgrade client as well as server
  236. installations due to the locking and commandline interface changes otherwise
  237. you'll get an error msg about a RPC protocol mismatch or a wrong commandline
  238. option.
  239. if you run a server that needs to support both old and new clients, it is
  240. suggested that you have a "borg-0.28.2" and a "borg-0.29.0" command.
  241. clients then can choose via e.g. "borg --remote-path=borg-0.29.0 ...".
  242. - the default waiting time for a lock changed from infinity to 1 second for a
  243. better interactive user experience. if the repo you want to access is
  244. currently locked, borg will now terminate after 1s with an error message.
  245. if you have scripts that shall wait for the lock for a longer time, use
  246. --lock-wait N (with N being the maximum wait time in seconds).
  247. Bug fixes:
  248. - hash table tuning (better chosen hashtable load factor 0.75 and prime initial
  249. size of 1031 gave ~1000x speedup in some scenarios)
  250. - avoid creation of an orphan lock for one case, #285
  251. - --keep-tag-files: fix file mode and multiple tag files in one directory, #432
  252. - fixes for "borg upgrade" (attic repo converter), #466
  253. - remove --progress isatty magic (and also --no-progress option) again, #476
  254. - borg init: display proper repo URL
  255. - fix format of umask in help pages, #463
  256. New features:
  257. - implement --lock-wait, support timeout for UpgradableLock, #210
  258. - implement borg break-lock command, #157
  259. - include system info below traceback, #324
  260. - sane remote logging, remote stderr, #461:
  261. - remote log output: intercept it and log it via local logging system,
  262. with "Remote: " prefixed to message. log remote tracebacks.
  263. - remote stderr: output it to local stderr with "Remote: " prefixed.
  264. - add --debug and --info (same as --verbose) to set the log level of the
  265. builtin logging configuration (which otherwise defaults to warning), #426
  266. note: there are few messages emitted at DEBUG level currently.
  267. - optionally configure logging via env var BORG_LOGGING_CONF
  268. - add --filter option for status characters: e.g. to show only the added
  269. or modified files (and also errors), use "borg create -v --filter=AME ...".
  270. - more progress indicators, #394
  271. - use ISO-8601 date and time format, #375
  272. - "borg check --prefix" to restrict archive checking to that name prefix, #206
  273. Other changes:
  274. - hashindex_add C implementation (speed up cache re-sync for new archives)
  275. - increase FUSE read_size to 1024 (speed up metadata operations)
  276. - check/delete/prune --save-space: free unused segments quickly, #239
  277. - increase rpc protocol version to 2 (see also Compatibility notes), #458
  278. - silence borg by default (via default log level WARNING)
  279. - get rid of C compiler warnings, #391
  280. - upgrade OS X FUSE to 3.0.9 on the OS X binary build system
  281. - use python 3.5.1 to build binaries
  282. - docs:
  283. - new mailing list borgbackup@python.org, #468
  284. - readthedocs: color and logo improvements
  285. - load coverage icons over SSL (avoids mixed content)
  286. - more precise binary installation steps
  287. - update release procedure docs about OS X FUSE
  288. - FAQ entry about unexpected 'A' status for unchanged file(s), #403
  289. - add docs about 'E' file status
  290. - add "borg upgrade" docs, #464
  291. - add developer docs about output and logging
  292. - clarify encryption, add note about client-side encryption
  293. - add resources section, with videos, talks, presentations, #149
  294. - Borg moved to Arch Linux [community]
  295. - fix wrong installation instructions for archlinux
  296. Version 0.28.2
  297. --------------
  298. New features:
  299. - borg create --exclude-if-present TAGFILE - exclude directories that have the
  300. given file from the backup. You can additionally give --keep-tag-files to
  301. preserve just the directory roots and the tag-files (but not backup other
  302. directory contents), #395, attic #128, attic #142
  303. Other changes:
  304. - do not create docs sources at build time (just have them in the repo),
  305. completely remove have_cython() hack, do not use the "mock" library at build
  306. time, #384
  307. - avoid hidden import, make it easier for PyInstaller, easier fix for #218
  308. - docs:
  309. - add description of item flags / status output, fixes #402
  310. - explain how to regenerate usage and API files (build_api or
  311. build_usage) and when to commit usage files directly into git, #384
  312. - minor install docs improvements
  313. Version 0.28.1
  314. --------------
  315. Bug fixes:
  316. - do not try to build api / usage docs for production install,
  317. fixes unexpected "mock" build dependency, #384
  318. Other changes:
  319. - avoid using msgpack.packb at import time
  320. - fix formatting issue in changes.rst
  321. - fix build on readthedocs
  322. Version 0.28.0
  323. --------------
  324. Compatibility notes:
  325. - changed return codes (exit codes), see docs. in short:
  326. old: 0 = ok, 1 = error. now: 0 = ok, 1 = warning, 2 = error
  327. New features:
  328. - refactor return codes (exit codes), fixes #61
  329. - add --show-rc option enable "terminating with X status, rc N" output, fixes 58, #351
  330. - borg create backups atime and ctime additionally to mtime, fixes #317
  331. - extract: support atime additionally to mtime
  332. - FUSE: support ctime and atime additionally to mtime
  333. - support borg --version
  334. - emit a warning if we have a slow msgpack installed
  335. - borg list --prefix=thishostname- REPO, fixes #205
  336. - Debug commands (do not use except if you know what you do: debug-get-obj,
  337. debug-put-obj, debug-delete-obj, debug-dump-archive-items.
  338. Bug fixes:
  339. - setup.py: fix bug related to BORG_LZ4_PREFIX processing
  340. - fix "check" for repos that have incomplete chunks, fixes #364
  341. - borg mount: fix unlocking of repository at umount time, fixes #331
  342. - fix reading files without touching their atime, #334
  343. - non-ascii ACL fixes for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X, #277
  344. - fix acl_use_local_uid_gid() and add a test for it, attic #359
  345. - borg upgrade: do not upgrade repositories in place by default, #299
  346. - fix cascading failure with the index conversion code, #269
  347. - borg check: implement 'cmdline' archive metadata value decoding, #311
  348. - fix RobustUnpacker, it missed some metadata keys (new atime and ctime keys
  349. were missing, but also bsdflags). add check for unknown metadata keys.
  350. - create from stdin: also save atime, ctime (cosmetic)
  351. - use default_notty=False for confirmations, fixes #345
  352. - vagrant: fix msgpack installation on centos, fixes #342
  353. - deal with unicode errors for symlinks in same way as for regular files and
  354. have a helpful warning message about how to fix wrong locale setup, fixes #382
  355. - add ACL keys the RobustUnpacker must know about
  356. Other changes:
  357. - improve file size displays, more flexible size formatters
  358. - explicitly commit to the units standard, #289
  359. - archiver: add E status (means that an error occurred when processing this
  360. (single) item
  361. - do binary releases via "github releases", closes #214
  362. - create: use -x and --one-file-system (was: --do-not-cross-mountpoints), #296
  363. - a lot of changes related to using "logging" module and screen output, #233
  364. - show progress display if on a tty, output more progress information, #303
  365. - factor out status output so it is consistent, fix surrogates removal,
  366. maybe fixes #309
  367. - move away from RawConfigParser to ConfigParser
  368. - archive checker: better error logging, give chunk_id and sequence numbers
  369. (can be used together with borg debug-dump-archive-items).
  370. - do not mention the deprecated passphrase mode
  371. - emit a deprecation warning for --compression N (giving a just a number)
  372. - misc .coverragerc fixes (and coverage measurement improvements), fixes #319
  373. - refactor confirmation code, reduce code duplication, add tests
  374. - prettier error messages, fixes #307, #57
  375. - tests:
  376. - add a test to find disk-full issues, #327
  377. - travis: also run tests on Python 3.5
  378. - travis: use tox -r so it rebuilds the tox environments
  379. - test the generated pyinstaller-based binary by archiver unit tests, #215
  380. - vagrant: tests: announce whether fakeroot is used or not
  381. - vagrant: add vagrant user to fuse group for debianoid systems also
  382. - vagrant: llfuse install on darwin needs pkgconfig installed
  383. - vagrant: use pyinstaller from develop branch, fixes #336
  384. - benchmarks: test create, extract, list, delete, info, check, help, fixes #146
  385. - benchmarks: test with both the binary and the python code
  386. - archiver tests: test with both the binary and the python code, fixes #215
  387. - make basic test more robust
  388. - docs:
  389. - moved docs to borgbackup.readthedocs.org, #155
  390. - a lot of fixes and improvements, use mobile-friendly RTD standard theme
  391. - use zlib,6 compression in some examples, fixes #275
  392. - add missing rename usage to docs, closes #279
  393. - include the help offered by borg help <topic> in the usage docs, fixes #293
  394. - include a list of major changes compared to attic into README, fixes #224
  395. - add OS X install instructions, #197
  396. - more details about the release process, #260
  397. - fix linux glibc requirement (binaries built on debian7 now)
  398. - build: move usage and API generation to setup.py
  399. - update docs about return codes, #61
  400. - remove api docs (too much breakage on rtd)
  401. - borgbackup install + basics presentation (asciinema)
  402. - describe the current style guide in documentation
  403. - add section about debug commands
  404. - warn about not running out of space
  405. - add example for rename
  406. - improve chunker params docs, fixes #362
  407. - minor development docs update
  408. Version 0.27.0
  409. --------------
  410. New features:
  411. - "borg upgrade" command - attic -> borg one time converter / migration, #21
  412. - temporary hack to avoid using lots of disk space for chunks.archive.d, #235:
  413. To use it: rm -rf chunks.archive.d ; touch chunks.archive.d
  414. - respect XDG_CACHE_HOME, attic #181
  415. - add support for arbitrary SSH commands, attic #99
  416. - borg delete --cache-only REPO (only delete cache, not REPO), attic #123
  417. Bug fixes:
  418. - use Debian 7 (wheezy) to build pyinstaller borgbackup binaries, fixes slow
  419. down observed when running the Centos6-built binary on Ubuntu, #222
  420. - do not crash on empty lock.roster, fixes #232
  421. - fix multiple issues with the cache config version check, #234
  422. - fix segment entry header size check, attic #352
  423. plus other error handling improvements / code deduplication there.
  424. - always give segment and offset in repo IntegrityErrors
  425. Other changes:
  426. - stop producing binary wheels, remove docs about it, #147
  427. - docs:
  428. - add warning about prune
  429. - generate usage include files only as needed
  430. - development docs: add Vagrant section
  431. - update / improve / reformat FAQ
  432. - hint to single-file pyinstaller binaries from README
  433. Version 0.26.1
  434. --------------
  435. This is a minor update, just docs and new pyinstaller binaries.
  436. - docs update about python and binary requirements
  437. - better docs for --read-special, fix #220
  438. - re-built the binaries, fix #218 and #213 (glibc version issue)
  439. - update web site about single-file pyinstaller binaries
  440. Note: if you did a python-based installation, there is no need to upgrade.
  441. Version 0.26.0
  442. --------------
  443. New features:
  444. - Faster cache sync (do all in one pass, remove tar/compression stuff), #163
  445. - BORG_REPO env var to specify the default repo, #168
  446. - read special files as if they were regular files, #79
  447. - implement borg create --dry-run, attic issue #267
  448. - Normalize paths before pattern matching on OS X, #143
  449. - support OpenBSD and NetBSD (except xattrs/ACLs)
  450. - support / run tests on Python 3.5
  451. Bug fixes:
  452. - borg mount repo: use absolute path, attic #200, attic #137
  453. - chunker: use off_t to get 64bit on 32bit platform, #178
  454. - initialize chunker fd to -1, so it's not equal to STDIN_FILENO (0)
  455. - fix reaction to "no" answer at delete repo prompt, #182
  456. - setup.py: detect lz4.h header file location
  457. - to support python < 3.2.4, add less buggy argparse lib from 3.2.6 (#194)
  458. - fix for obtaining ``char *`` from temporary Python value (old code causes
  459. a compile error on Mint 17.2)
  460. - llfuse 0.41 install troubles on some platforms, require < 0.41
  461. (UnicodeDecodeError exception due to non-ascii llfuse setup.py)
  462. - cython code: add some int types to get rid of unspecific python add /
  463. subtract operations (avoid ``undefined symbol FPE_``... error on some platforms)
  464. - fix verbose mode display of stdin backup
  465. - extract: warn if a include pattern never matched, fixes #209,
  466. implement counters for Include/ExcludePatterns
  467. - archive names with slashes are invalid, attic issue #180
  468. - chunker: add a check whether the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED constant is defined -
  469. fixes building on OpenBSD.
  470. Other changes:
  471. - detect inconsistency / corruption / hash collision, #170
  472. - replace versioneer with setuptools_scm, #106
  473. - docs:
  474. - pkg-config is needed for llfuse installation
  475. - be more clear about pruning, attic issue #132
  476. - unit tests:
  477. - xattr: ignore security.selinux attribute showing up
  478. - ext3 seems to need a bit more space for a sparse file
  479. - do not test lzma level 9 compression (avoid MemoryError)
  480. - work around strange mtime granularity issue on netbsd, fixes #204
  481. - ignore st_rdev if file is not a block/char device, fixes #203
  482. - stay away from the setgid and sticky mode bits
  483. - use Vagrant to do easy cross-platform testing (#196), currently:
  484. - Debian 7 "wheezy" 32bit, Debian 8 "jessie" 64bit
  485. - Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
  486. - Centos 7 64bit
  487. - FreeBSD 10.2 64bit
  488. - OpenBSD 5.7 64bit
  489. - NetBSD 6.1.5 64bit
  490. - Darwin (OS X Yosemite)
  491. Version 0.25.0
  492. --------------
  493. Compatibility notes:
  494. - lz4 compression library (liblz4) is a new requirement (#156)
  495. - the new compression code is very compatible: as long as you stay with zlib
  496. compression, older borg releases will still be able to read data from a
  497. repo/archive made with the new code (note: this is not the case for the
  498. default "none" compression, use "zlib,0" if you want a "no compression" mode
  499. that can be read by older borg). Also the new code is able to read repos and
  500. archives made with older borg versions (for all zlib levels 0..9).
  501. Deprecations:
  502. - --compression N (with N being a number, as in 0.24) is deprecated.
  503. We keep the --compression 0..9 for now to not break scripts, but it is
  504. deprecated and will be removed later, so better fix your scripts now:
  505. --compression 0 (as in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,0 (now).
  506. BUT: if you do not want compression, you rather want --compression none
  507. (which is the default).
  508. --compression 1 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,1 (now)
  509. --compression 9 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,9 (now)
  510. New features:
  511. - create --compression none (default, means: do not compress, just pass through
  512. data "as is". this is more efficient than zlib level 0 as used in borg 0.24)
  513. - create --compression lz4 (super-fast, but not very high compression)
  514. - create --compression zlib,N (slower, higher compression, default for N is 6)
  515. - create --compression lzma,N (slowest, highest compression, default N is 6)
  516. - honor the nodump flag (UF_NODUMP) and do not backup such items
  517. - list --short just outputs a simple list of the files/directories in an archive
  518. Bug fixes:
  519. - fixed --chunker-params parameter order confusion / malfunction, fixes #154
  520. - close fds of segments we delete (during compaction)
  521. - close files which fell out the lrucache
  522. - fadvise DONTNEED now is only called for the byte range actually read, not for
  523. the whole file, fixes #158.
  524. - fix issue with negative "all archives" size, fixes #165
  525. - restore_xattrs: ignore if setxattr fails with EACCES, fixes #162
  526. Other changes:
  527. - remove fakeroot requirement for tests, tests run faster without fakeroot
  528. (test setup does not fail any more without fakeroot, so you can run with or
  529. without fakeroot), fixes #151 and #91.
  530. - more tests for archiver
  531. - recover_segment(): don't assume we have an fd for segment
  532. - lrucache refactoring / cleanup, add dispose function, py.test tests
  533. - generalize hashindex code for any key length (less hardcoding)
  534. - lock roster: catch file not found in remove() method and ignore it
  535. - travis CI: use requirements file
  536. - improved docs:
  537. - replace hack for llfuse with proper solution (install libfuse-dev)
  538. - update docs about compression
  539. - update development docs about fakeroot
  540. - internals: add some words about lock files / locking system
  541. - support: mention BountySource and for what it can be used
  542. - theme: use a lighter green
  543. - add pypi, wheel, dist package based install docs
  544. - split install docs into system-specific preparations and generic instructions
  545. Version 0.24.0
  546. --------------
  547. Incompatible changes (compared to 0.23):
  548. - borg now always issues --umask NNN option when invoking another borg via ssh
  549. on the repository server. By that, it's making sure it uses the same umask
  550. for remote repos as for local ones. Because of this, you must upgrade both
  551. server and client(s) to 0.24.
  552. - the default umask is 077 now (if you do not specify via --umask) which might
  553. be a different one as you used previously. The default umask avoids that
  554. you accidentally give access permissions for group and/or others to files
  555. created by borg (e.g. the repository).
  556. Deprecations:
  557. - "--encryption passphrase" mode is deprecated, see #85 and #97.
  558. See the new "--encryption repokey" mode for a replacement.
  559. New features:
  560. - borg create --chunker-params ... to configure the chunker, fixes #16
  561. (attic #302, attic #300, and somehow also #41).
  562. This can be used to reduce memory usage caused by chunk management overhead,
  563. so borg does not create a huge chunks index/repo index and eats all your RAM
  564. if you back up lots of data in huge files (like VM disk images).
  565. See docs/misc/create_chunker-params.txt for more information.
  566. - borg info now reports chunk counts in the chunk index.
  567. - borg create --compression 0..9 to select zlib compression level, fixes #66
  568. (attic #295).
  569. - borg init --encryption repokey (to store the encryption key into the repo),
  570. fixes #85
  571. - improve at-end error logging, always log exceptions and set exit_code=1
  572. - LoggedIO: better error checks / exceptions / exception handling
  573. - implement --remote-path to allow non-default-path borg locations, #125
  574. - implement --umask M and use 077 as default umask for better security, #117
  575. - borg check: give a named single archive to it, fixes #139
  576. - cache sync: show progress indication
  577. - cache sync: reimplement the chunk index merging in C
  578. Bug fixes:
  579. - fix segfault that happened for unreadable files (chunker: n needs to be a
  580. signed size_t), #116
  581. - fix the repair mode, #144
  582. - repo delete: add destroy to allowed rpc methods, fixes issue #114
  583. - more compatible repository locking code (based on mkdir), maybe fixes #92
  584. (attic #317, attic #201).
  585. - better Exception msg if no Borg is installed on the remote repo server, #56
  586. - create a RepositoryCache implementation that can cope with >2GiB,
  587. fixes attic #326.
  588. - fix Traceback when running check --repair, attic #232
  589. - clarify help text, fixes #73.
  590. - add help string for --no-files-cache, fixes #140
  591. Other changes:
  592. - improved docs:
  593. - added docs/misc directory for misc. writeups that won't be included
  594. "as is" into the html docs.
  595. - document environment variables and return codes (attic #324, attic #52)
  596. - web site: add related projects, fix web site url, IRC #borgbackup
  597. - Fedora/Fedora-based install instructions added to docs
  598. - Cygwin-based install instructions added to docs
  599. - updated AUTHORS
  600. - add FAQ entries about redundancy / integrity
  601. - clarify that borg extract uses the cwd as extraction target
  602. - update internals doc about chunker params, memory usage and compression
  603. - added docs about development
  604. - add some words about resource usage in general
  605. - document how to backup a raw disk
  606. - add note about how to run borg from virtual env
  607. - add solutions for (ll)fuse installation problems
  608. - document what borg check does, fixes #138
  609. - reorganize borgbackup.github.io sidebar, prev/next at top
  610. - deduplicate and refactor the docs / README.rst
  611. - use borg-tmp as prefix for temporary files / directories
  612. - short prune options without "keep-" are deprecated, do not suggest them
  613. - improved tox configuration
  614. - remove usage of unittest.mock, always use mock from pypi
  615. - use entrypoints instead of scripts, for better use of the wheel format and
  616. modern installs
  617. - add requirements.d/development.txt and modify tox.ini
  618. - use travis-ci for testing based on Linux and (new) OS X
  619. - use coverage.py, pytest-cov and codecov.io for test coverage support
  620. I forgot to list some stuff already implemented in 0.23.0, here they are:
  621. New features:
  622. - efficient archive list from manifest, meaning a big speedup for slow
  623. repo connections and "list <repo>", "delete <repo>", "prune" (attic #242,
  624. attic #167)
  625. - big speedup for chunks cache sync (esp. for slow repo connections), fixes #18
  626. - hashindex: improve error messages
  627. Other changes:
  628. - explicitly specify binary mode to open binary files
  629. - some easy micro optimizations
  630. Version 0.23.0
  631. --------------
  632. Incompatible changes (compared to attic, fork related):
  633. - changed sw name and cli command to "borg", updated docs
  634. - package name (and name in urls) uses "borgbackup" to have less collisions
  635. - changed repo / cache internal magic strings from ATTIC* to BORG*,
  636. changed cache location to .cache/borg/ - this means that it currently won't
  637. accept attic repos (see issue #21 about improving that)
  638. Bug fixes:
  639. - avoid defect python-msgpack releases, fixes attic #171, fixes attic #185
  640. - fix traceback when trying to do unsupported passphrase change, fixes attic #189
  641. - datetime does not like the year 10.000, fixes attic #139
  642. - fix "info" all archives stats, fixes attic #183
  643. - fix parsing with missing microseconds, fixes attic #282
  644. - fix misleading hint the fuse ImportError handler gave, fixes attic #237
  645. - check unpacked data from RPC for tuple type and correct length, fixes attic #127
  646. - fix Repository._active_txn state when lock upgrade fails
  647. - give specific path to xattr.is_enabled(), disable symlink setattr call that
  648. always fails
  649. - fix test setup for 32bit platforms, partial fix for attic #196
  650. - upgraded versioneer, PEP440 compliance, fixes attic #257
  651. New features:
  652. - less memory usage: add global option --no-cache-files
  653. - check --last N (only check the last N archives)
  654. - check: sort archives in reverse time order
  655. - rename repo::oldname newname (rename repository)
  656. - create -v output more informative
  657. - create --progress (backup progress indicator)
  658. - create --timestamp (utc string or reference file/dir)
  659. - create: if "-" is given as path, read binary from stdin
  660. - extract: if --stdout is given, write all extracted binary data to stdout
  661. - extract --sparse (simple sparse file support)
  662. - extra debug information for 'fread failed'
  663. - delete <repo> (deletes whole repo + local cache)
  664. - FUSE: reflect deduplication in allocated blocks
  665. - only allow whitelisted RPC calls in server mode
  666. - normalize source/exclude paths before matching
  667. - use posix_fadvise to not spoil the OS cache, fixes attic #252
  668. - toplevel error handler: show tracebacks for better error analysis
  669. - sigusr1 / sigint handler to print current file infos - attic PR #286
  670. - RPCError: include the exception args we get from remote
  671. Other changes:
  672. - source: misc. cleanups, pep8, style
  673. - docs and faq improvements, fixes, updates
  674. - cleanup crypto.pyx, make it easier to adapt to other AES modes
  675. - do os.fsync like recommended in the python docs
  676. - source: Let chunker optionally work with os-level file descriptor.
  677. - source: Linux: remove duplicate os.fsencode calls
  678. - source: refactor _open_rb code a bit, so it is more consistent / regular
  679. - source: refactor indicator (status) and item processing
  680. - source: use py.test for better testing, flake8 for code style checks
  681. - source: fix tox >=2.0 compatibility (test runner)
  682. - pypi package: add python version classifiers, add FreeBSD to platforms
  683. Attic Changelog
  684. ---------------
  685. Here you can see the full list of changes between each Attic release until Borg
  686. forked from Attic:
  687. Version 0.17
  688. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  689. (bugfix release, released on X)
  690. - Fix hashindex ARM memory alignment issue (#309)
  691. - Improve hashindex error messages (#298)
  692. Version 0.16
  693. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  694. (bugfix release, released on May 16, 2015)
  695. - Fix typo preventing the security confirmation prompt from working (#303)
  696. - Improve handling of systems with improperly configured file system encoding (#289)
  697. - Fix "All archives" output for attic info. (#183)
  698. - More user friendly error message when repository key file is not found (#236)
  699. - Fix parsing of iso 8601 timestamps with zero microseconds (#282)
  700. Version 0.15
  701. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  702. (bugfix release, released on Apr 15, 2015)
  703. - xattr: Be less strict about unknown/unsupported platforms (#239)
  704. - Reduce repository listing memory usage (#163).
  705. - Fix BrokenPipeError for remote repositories (#233)
  706. - Fix incorrect behavior with two character directory names (#265, #268)
  707. - Require approval before accessing relocated/moved repository (#271)
  708. - Require approval before accessing previously unknown unencrypted repositories (#271)
  709. - Fix issue with hash index files larger than 2GB.
  710. - Fix Python 3.2 compatibility issue with noatime open() (#164)
  711. - Include missing pyx files in dist files (#168)
  712. Version 0.14
  713. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  714. (feature release, released on Dec 17, 2014)
  715. - Added support for stripping leading path segments (#95)
  716. "attic extract --strip-segments X"
  717. - Add workaround for old Linux systems without acl_extended_file_no_follow (#96)
  718. - Add MacPorts' path to the default openssl search path (#101)
  719. - HashIndex improvements, eliminates unnecessary IO on low memory systems.
  720. - Fix "Number of files" output for attic info. (#124)
  721. - limit create file permissions so files aren't read while restoring
  722. - Fix issue with empty xattr values (#106)
  723. Version 0.13
  724. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  725. (feature release, released on Jun 29, 2014)
  726. - Fix sporadic "Resource temporarily unavailable" when using remote repositories
  727. - Reduce file cache memory usage (#90)
  728. - Faster AES encryption (utilizing AES-NI when available)
  729. - Experimental Linux, OS X and FreeBSD ACL support (#66)
  730. - Added support for backup and restore of BSDFlags (OSX, FreeBSD) (#56)
  731. - Fix bug where xattrs on symlinks were not correctly restored
  732. - Added cachedir support. CACHEDIR.TAG compatible cache directories
  733. can now be excluded using ``--exclude-caches`` (#74)
  734. - Fix crash on extreme mtime timestamps (year 2400+) (#81)
  735. - Fix Python 3.2 specific lockf issue (EDEADLK)
  736. Version 0.12
  737. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  738. (feature release, released on April 7, 2014)
  739. - Python 3.4 support (#62)
  740. - Various documentation improvements a new style
  741. - ``attic mount`` now supports mounting an entire repository not only
  742. individual archives (#59)
  743. - Added option to restrict remote repository access to specific path(s):
  744. ``attic serve --restrict-to-path X`` (#51)
  745. - Include "all archives" size information in "--stats" output. (#54)
  746. - Added ``--stats`` option to ``attic delete`` and ``attic prune``
  747. - Fixed bug where ``attic prune`` used UTC instead of the local time zone
  748. when determining which archives to keep.
  749. - Switch to SI units (Power of 1000 instead 1024) when printing file sizes
  750. Version 0.11
  751. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  752. (feature release, released on March 7, 2014)
  753. - New "check" command for repository consistency checking (#24)
  754. - Documentation improvements
  755. - Fix exception during "attic create" with repeated files (#39)
  756. - New "--exclude-from" option for attic create/extract/verify.
  757. - Improved archive metadata deduplication.
  758. - "attic verify" has been deprecated. Use "attic extract --dry-run" instead.
  759. - "attic prune --hourly|daily|..." has been deprecated.
  760. Use "attic prune --keep-hourly|daily|..." instead.
  761. - Ignore xattr errors during "extract" if not supported by the filesystem. (#46)
  762. Version 0.10
  763. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  764. (bugfix release, released on Jan 30, 2014)
  765. - Fix deadlock when extracting 0 sized files from remote repositories
  766. - "--exclude" wildcard patterns are now properly applied to the full path
  767. not just the file name part (#5).
  768. - Make source code endianness agnostic (#1)
  769. Version 0.9
  770. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  771. (feature release, released on Jan 23, 2014)
  772. - Remote repository speed and reliability improvements.
  773. - Fix sorting of segment names to ignore NFS left over files. (#17)
  774. - Fix incorrect display of time (#13)
  775. - Improved error handling / reporting. (#12)
  776. - Use fcntl() instead of flock() when locking repository/cache. (#15)
  777. - Let ssh figure out port/user if not specified so we don't override .ssh/config (#9)
  778. - Improved libcrypto path detection (#23).
  779. Version 0.8.1
  780. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  781. (bugfix release, released on Oct 4, 2013)
  782. - Fix segmentation fault issue.
  783. Version 0.8
  784. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  785. (feature release, released on Oct 3, 2013)
  786. - Fix xattr issue when backing up sshfs filesystems (#4)
  787. - Fix issue with excessive index file size (#6)
  788. - Support access of read only repositories.
  789. - New syntax to enable repository encryption:
  790. attic init --encryption="none|passphrase|keyfile".
  791. - Detect and abort if repository is older than the cache.
  792. Version 0.7
  793. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  794. (feature release, released on Aug 5, 2013)
  795. - Ported to FreeBSD
  796. - Improved documentation
  797. - Experimental: Archives mountable as fuse filesystems.
  798. - The "user." prefix is no longer stripped from xattrs on Linux
  799. Version 0.6.1
  800. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  801. (bugfix release, released on July 19, 2013)
  802. - Fixed an issue where mtime was not always correctly restored.
  803. Version 0.6
  804. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  805. First public release on July 9, 2013