Re: Happy New Year unreleased version 2.6.0

[Graeme Robinson]

Hi Eric,
I'm so very pleased at your continuing efforts in maintaining and
developing rdiff-backup.
After many years of using it on my servers I would not use anything else.


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On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 9:15 PM EricZolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just pushed the latest unreleased version v2.6.0 [1], with
> accordingly updated changelog [2]. The main purpose of this unreleased
> version is to mark the latest point where the API 201, compatible with
> v2.2.x of rdiff-backup, has been kept intact.
>
> Hence you're called to test that it's really the case, and validate that
> it works against 2.2.whatever you are currently using.
>
>  From now on, I'll start to simplify and (hopefully) improve the code
> without caring about compatibility (but still keeping the API under
> control, have no fear!), until we'll come to version v3.0 (and API 300),
> which should make it simpler for me, and hopefully others, to add new
> features.
>
> Under the hood, I've already modernized (Python versions,
> pyproject.toml, etc) and completed our test suite (use of black and
> bandit), progressing our OpenSSF compliance from 81% (IIRC) to 96% [3],
> and paving the way for the evolutions to come.
>
> And, last but not least, I wanted to thank our faithful users and wish
> them all a Happy New Year 2024, independently if you follow or not the
> Gregorian calendar!
>
> KR, Eric
>
> [1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/tree/v2.6.0%2Bunreleased
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/v2.6.0%2Bunreleased/CHANGELOG.adoc#new-in-v2-6-0-never-released
> [3] https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/6072
>
>