What's new in Burp 1.4.2
Sep 2, 2013
- This version adds a machine-readable statistics file to each backup directory.
New in Burp 1.3.36 (Jul 30, 2013)
- It fixes truncation of timestamps in the live status monitor.
- The 'resume partial' feature now defaults to being off, with an option to turn it on.
New in Burp 1.3.34 (Jun 29, 2013)
- A major autoconf cleanup, and initial support for cross-building Android targets.
- The server now indicates where logging is occurring.
- A bedup segfault when using -m with no argument was fixed.
New in Burp 1.3.32 (Jun 1, 2013)
- A status monitor segfault was fixed.
- Timed backups on Windows now run with a lower thread priority.
- A 'vss_drives' option was added, which gives the ability to specify which Windows drives get a VSS snapshot.
New in Burp 1.3.30 (May 3, 2013)
- Performs fewer lstat()s on systems that support d_type (i.e. most Linux systems), in order to speed up certain operations.
- A fix for SIGHUP reload causing the server to go into non-forking mode.
- Indicates the backups that are deletable and adds options for deleting them.
- Various small bugfixes.
New in Burp 1.3.28 (Mar 30, 2013)
- This version added the ability to resume partially transferred files.
- The program now ensures that the 'timer conditions not met' message appears on the client when it is out of the time band.
- A bug with turning off compression before resuming a backup was fixed.
New in Burp 1.3.26 (Mar 6, 2013)
- This version adds the ability to back up raw devices referenced by a symlink, Valgrind cleanup, and a "-d" option to bedup (to delete duplicates instead of hardlinking, not for use on burp storage directories).
New in Burp 1.3.24 (Jan 30, 2013)
- This version adds lots of bugfixes related to the strip/split_vss options on Windows, adds notification options to the server-side pre/post scripts, adds an automated test script for testing Windows clients, stops Windows from going to sleep during a backup, and adds other small bugfixes.
New in Burp 1.3.22 (Jan 3, 2013)
- This version improves burp_ca, fixes list/verify/restore when the regex is long and/or contains a colon, fixes split_vss backups being restored on non-Windows machines with the -f (force) option, and adds a "-j" option to format the long list output as JSON (intended for use with burpfs).
New in Burp 1.3.20 (Dec 18, 2012)
- This version has a bugfix for split/strip_vss = 1 on the client side always causing all files to be backed up.
- It makes configure report /usr as the default prefix.
New in Burp 1.3.18 (Nov 3, 2012)
- Options to either store Windows VSS headers separately to the actual file data, or to strip it out, were added.
- A command line 'vss_strip' program was added for extracting the file data from a file containing both VSS data and the file data.
- An 'ssl_cipher' option was added.
- There were various small bugfixes.
New in Burp 1.3.16 (Oct 9, 2012)
- An important bug in exclude_comp was fixed.
- Users of version 1.3.14 clients should upgrade as soon as possible.
- A bug in the read_blockdev option was fixed.
- A 'version_warn=[0|1]' option was added.
New in Burp 1.3.14 (Sep 29, 2012)
- '-l / logfile=' options were downloaded because they didn't work properly and were adding too much complexity to the code.
- The ability to restore to a different client was added.
- Improvements were made to the progress counters.
- The ability to exclude compression by file extension was added. Many small bugs were fixed.
New in Burp 1.3.12 (Aug 29, 2012)
- 'Forward' timestamp references were removed from backup directories to allow for easier deletion of backup directories.
- password_check=[0|1] was added to options on the server.
- It defaults to on.
- Turning it off disables client password checks (although SSL certificates are still checked).
- Deleted files are counted.
New in Burp 1.3.8 (Jun 9, 2012)
- This version fixes a bug introduced in the new storage directory structure code that had the potential to corrupt backups.
- It forces directory_tree = 0 for clients on versions lower than 1.3.6.
- It will escape '-' symbols in man pages.
- It will save received certs as temporary files and then rename them to avoid accidentally truncating the current ones.
- If a Windows VSS snapshot fails, the program will not continue.
- 32-bit mingw64 has difficulty printf-ing multiple %llu items and sometimes even segfaults, so the counters are split into individual printfs.
New in Burp 1.3.6 (May 29, 2012)
- This version stores files in a directory structure like that of the original client.
- It fix a bug which caused file times not to be set on Windows directories during restoration.
New in Burp 1.3.4 (Apr 28, 2012)
- Automatically converts backslashes to forward slashes for includes/excludes on Windows clients.
- Adds 'client_can_force_backup', 'client_can_list', 'client_can_restore' and 'client_can_verify' options.
- Adds the ability to trigger a backup from the server side.
- Adds a 'notify_success_changes_only' option, which means that success notifications only get sent if there were new or changed files.
- Has some OS X fixes.
- For each file, stores the compression setting in the manifest. Small bugfixes.