[rdiff-backup-users] New Development release 1.3.0 !

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hello everyone,

Today, I have started a new Development/Unstable branch which will  
include new features, new bug fixes, and yes, new bugs. Remember: in  
the Development branch, there is no guarantee of backwards- 
compatibility. In order to fix some of the more subtle Windows and  
Linux/FAT32 bugs, it looks like it will be necessary to do that every  
so often, which is why I have started this new Development branch.

For now, this branch will not be focused on porting to Python 2.6/3.  
There are plenty of useful features and bug fixes to focus on instead.  
I would prefer to see this new branch become a new stable series  
(1.4.x) on a much shorter time scale than the last one did (which took  
nearly three years!).

Releases from the Development branch will never purposefully destroy  
your backups. (I try to give them at least a basic shakedown. :-)  
However, if you choose to run them, the expectation is that you will  
keep up with the releases on both your clients and your servers. Also,  
expect that sometimes features will break in unexpected ways. If that  
happens, please submit a bug report.

Without further ado:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.3.0.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.3.0.tar.gz.asc

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.3.0-win32.zip
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.3.0-win32.zip.asc


Andrew



New in v1.3.0 (2009/01/03)
---------------------------

New option: --use-compatible-timestamps, which causes rdiff-backup to  
use - as
the hour/minute/second separator instead of :. Enabled by default on  
systems
which require : to be escaped. (Oliver Mulatz)

Allow rdiff-backup to backup files which it cannot read, but can change
the permissions of. (Andrew Ferguson)

Take start and end times from same system so that the elapsed time  
printed in
the statistics is not affected by time zone. (Andrew Ferguson)

Properly fix escaping DOS devices and trailing periods and spaces; now  
supports
native Windows and Linxu/FAT32. (Andrew Ferguson)