[rdiff-backup-users] New release: 1.2.2

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi all,

As promised, a new rdiff-backup stable release. ChangeLog included  
below.

Direct download links:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.2.tar.gz
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.2-win32.zip

GPG signatures:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.2.tar.gz.asc
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.2-win32.zip.asc

(I actually learned how to do detached-signatures this time! :-)

My thanks to everyone who contributed patches, bug reports, and  
suggestions for this release.


Andrew



New in v1.2.2 (2008/10/19)
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Automatically resume after a failed initial backup. (Patch from Josh  
Nisly)

Improve compatibility between Unix and remote native Windows client.  
It is now
possible to use SSH daemons other than Putty on Windows. (Andrew  
Ferguson)

Print a more informative error message if the user's remote shell prints
extraneous information before rdiff-backup runs. (Andrew Ferguson)

Don't backup Windows ACLs if the --no-acls option is specified. Thanks  
to
Richard Metzger for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)

Add error handling and logging to Windows ACL support; fixes Windows  
backup to
SMB share. Improve test in fs_abilities to determine if Windows ACLs are
supported. (Andrew Ferguson)

Add a warning message if extended attributes support is broken by the
filesystem (such as with older EncFS versions). (Andrew Ferguson)

Improve handling of Windows ACLs by switching to API functions which
understand inherited ACEs; fixes support for Windows 2000. (Andrew  
Ferguson)

Support extended attributes on symbolic links. (Andrew Ferguson)

On Mac OS X, read the com.apple.FinderInfo extended attribute since it  
is the
only storage location for the 'busy' (Z) Finder attribute. (Andrew  
Ferguson)

Properly fix "AttributeError: RPath instance has no attribute  
'inc_compressed'"
bug. Fix in 1.1.12 was in correct place, but wrong solution. (Andrew  
Ferguson)

Improve support for Python 2.5, which refactored the built-in  
exceptions so
that SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt no longer derive from Exception.
Closes support request #106504. (Andrew Ferguson)

Adjust --exclude-if-present option to support directories, symlinks,  
device
files, etc. Closes bug #24192. Thanks to Vadim Zeitlin for the  
suggestion.