Back In Time - Second Release Candidate (1.5.4-rc2)
Hello, I kindly ask if you would publish this news item to your micro
news service.
Hello,
As member of the upstream maintenance team of Back In Time [1] project,
please allow me to announce the second release candidate [2] preparing
for version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie.
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2
Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems. Feel free
to use our Mastodon account @backintime@fosstodon.org [3].
- EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and
is schedule for removal in 2026 [4].
- The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into
"Remove & Retention", with improvements to the user manual section [5].
Its behavior remains unchanged.
- An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
- Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced state
file.
- License and copyright information is now provided in machine-readable
SPDX format, following the REUSE standard [6].
See CHANGELOG [7] for more details.
Regards,
Christian Buhtz
[1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
[2] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2>
[3] -- <https://fosstodon.org/@backintime>
[4] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1734>
[5] --
<https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/remove_retention.html>
[6] -- <https://reuse.software/>
[7] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/CHANGES>
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