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Back In Time Changelog

What's new in Back In Time 1.4.3

Feb 2, 2024
  • CHANGES:
  • Important note for package maintainers:
  • We are now using absolute paths to python3 which may impact how you build your package.
  • You can you use ./configure --python=PYTHON_PATH to configure this.
  • Feature: Exclude 'SingletonLock' and 'SingletonCookie' (Discord) and 'lock' (Mozilla Firefox) files by default (part of #1555)
  • Work around: Relax rsync exit code 23: Ignore instead of error now (part of #1587)
  • Feature (experimental): Add new snapshot log filter rsync transfer failures (experimental) to find them easier (they are normally not shown as "error").
  • This feature is experimental because it is based on hard-coded error message strings in the rsync source code
  • and may possibly not find all rsync messages or show false positives.
  • Fix bug: 'qt5_probing.py' hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592 and #1580)
  • Fix bug: Launching BiT GUI (root) hangs on Wayland without showing the GUI (#836)
  • Improve: Launcher for BiT GUI (root) does not enforce Wayland anymore but uses same settings as for BiT GUI (userland) (#1350)
  • Fix bug: Disabling suspend during taking a backup ("inhibit suspend") hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592)
  • Change of semantics: BiT running as root never disables suspend during taking a backup ("inhibit suspend") even though this may have worked before in BiT

New in Back In Time 1.4.1 (Oct 3, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Dependency: Add "qt translations" to GUI runtime dependencies (#1538)
  • Build: Unit tests do generically ignore all instead of well-known warnings now (#1539).
  • Build: Warnings about missing Qt translation now are ignored while testing (#1537).
  • Fix bug: GUI didn't start when "show hidden files" button was on (#1535).
  • STATISTICS:
  • Issue progress report
  • The language translation coverage increased from 38 to 56 % since the new developer team started in summer 2022
  • (thanks to all our translators and @buhtz to pursue this topic!)

New in Back In Time 1.4.0 (Sep 17, 2023)

  • INSTALLATION:
  • This release contains the source code only but no distro packages.
  • To install the new release see: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md#build--install
  • CHANGELOG:
  • Project: Renamed branch "master" to "main" and started "gitflow" branching model.
  • Refactor: Renamed qt4plugin.py to systrayiconplugin.py (we are using Qt5 for years now ;-)
  • Refactor: Removed unfinished feature "Full system backup" (#1526)
  • Fix bug: AttributeError: can't set attribute 'showHiddenFiles' in app.py (#1532)
  • Fix bug: Check SSH login works on machines with limited commands (#1442)
  • Fix bug: Missing icon in SSH private key button (#1364)
  • Fix bug: Master issue for missing or empty system-tray icon (#1306)
  • Fix bug: System-tray icon missing or empty (GUI and cron) (#1236)
  • Fix bug: Improve KDE plasma icon compatibility (#1159)
  • GUI Change: View last (snapshot) log button in GUI uses "document-open-recent" icon now instead of "document-new" (#1386)
  • Fix bug: Unit test fails on some machines due to warning "Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome..." (#1429)
  • Fix bug: Generation of config-manpage caused an error with Debian's Lintian (#1398).
  • Fix bug: Return empty list in smartRemove (#1392, Debian Bug Report 973760)
  • Fix bug: Taking a snapshot reports rsync errors now even if no snapshot was taken (#1491)
  • Fix bug: takeSnapshot() recognizes errors now by also evaluating the rsync exit code (#489)
  • Fixes related problem: Killing rsync was not handled gracefully (by ignoring the rsync exit code)
  • Fix bug: The error user-callback is now always called if an error happened while taking a snapshot (#1491)
  • Fix bug: D-Bus serviceHelper error "LimitExceeded: Maximum length of command line reached (100)":
  • Max command length is now 120 instead of 100 (#1027)
  • Feature: Introduce new error codes for the "error" user callback (as part of #1491):
  • 5: Error while taking a snapshot.
  • 6: New snapshot taken but with errors.
  • Feature: The rsync exit code is now contained in the snapshot log (part of #489). Example:
  • [E] Error: 'rsync' ended with exit code -9 (negative values are signal numbers, see 'kill -l')
  • Fix bug: Treat rsync exit code 24 as INFO instead of ERROR (#1506)
  • Breaking change: Minimal Python version 3.8 required (#1358).
  • Removed: Handling and checking of user group "fuse" (#1472).
  • Feature: Exclude /swapfile by default (#1053)
  • Feature: Rearranged menu bar and its entries in the main window (#1487, #1478).
  • Feature: Configure user interface language via config file and GUI.
  • Documentation: Removed outdated docbook (#1345).
  • Build: Introduced .readthedocs.yaml as asked by ReadTheDocs.org (#1443).
  • Dependency: The oxygen icons should be installed with the BiT Qt GUI since they are used as fallback in case of missing icons
  • Fix bug: Add support for ChainerBackend class as keyring which iterates over all supported keyring backends (#1410)
  • Translation: Strings to translate now easier to understand for translators (#1448, #1457, #1462, #1465).
  • Translation: Improved completeness of translations and additional modifications of source strings (#1454, #1512)
  • Translation: Plural forms support (#1488).
  • Removed: Translation in Canadian English, British English and Javanese (#1455).
  • Added: Translation in Persian and Vietnamese (#1460).
  • Added: Message to users (after 10 starts of BIT Gui) to motivate them contributing translations (#1473).

New in Back In Time 1.3.3 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • CHANGELOG:
  • New feature: Command line argument "--diagnostics" to show helpful info for better issue support (#1100)
  • GUI change: Remove Exit button from the toolbar (#172)
  • GUI change: Define accelerator keys for menu bar and tabs, as well as toolbar shortcuts (#1104)
  • Desktop integration: Update .desktop file to mark Back In Time as a single main window program (#1258)
  • Improvement: Write all log output to stderr; do not pollute stdout with INFO and WARNING messages anymore (#1337)
  • Bugfix: RTE "reentrant call inside io.BufferedWriter" in logFile.flush() during backup (#1003)
  • Bugfix: Incompatibility with rsync 3.2.4 or later because of rsync's "new argument protection" (#1247). Deactivate "--old-args" rsync argument earlier recommaned to users as a workaround.
  • Bugfix: DeprecationWarnings about invalid escape sequences.
  • Bugfix: AttributeError in "Diff Options" dialog (#898)
  • Bugfix: Settings GUI: "Save password to Keyring" was disabled due to "no appropriate keyring found" (#1321)
  • Bugfix: Back in Time did not start with D-Bus error
  • "dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner:
  • Could not get owner of name 'net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper': no such name"
  • (fixes client-side part of #921 - system D-Bus part of the Udev serviceHelper is still under investigation).
  • Bugfix: Avoid logging errors while waiting for a target drive to be mounted (#1142, #1143, #1328)
  • Bugfix: [Arch Linux] AUR pkg "backintime-git": Build tests fails and installation is aborted (#1233, fixed with #921)
  • Bugfix: Wrong systray icon showing in Wayland (#1244)
  • Documentation update: Correct description of profile.schedule.time in backintime-config manpage (#1270)
  • Translation update: Brazilian Portuguese (#1267)
  • Translation update: Italian (#1110, #1123)
  • Translation update: French (#1077)
  • Testing: Fix a test fail when dealing with an empty crontab (#1181)
  • Testing: Fix a test fail when dealing with an empty config file (#1305)
  • Testing: Skip "test_quiet_mode" (does not work reliably)
  • Testing: Improve "test_diagnostics_arg" (introduced with #1100) to no longer fail
  • when JSON output was mixed with logging output (part of #921, fixes #1233)
  • Testing: Numerous fixes and extensions to testing (#1115, #1213, #1279, #1280, #1281, #1285, #1288, #1290, #1293, #1309, #1334)

New in Back In Time 1.3.2 (Aug 8, 2022)

  • Fix bug: Tests no longer work with Python 3.10 (#1175)