[rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.1.16 released

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi all,

Version 1.1.16 of rdiff-backup has been released. Although the native  
Windows support is not 100% finished, I thought the number of  
significant bug fixes since January warranted a new release. After  
native Windows support is finished, and any bugs reported from this  
release are fixed, I think a new stable release is in order.

Direct links:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.16.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.16.tar.gz.gpg

If any wants to contribute RPMs or source RPMs, I'd be happy to upload  
them.

Known issues:
        - Compare-hash and verify don't honor hardlinks (Savannah #20925)
        - Unicode issues (Savannah #23080)
	- Potential for dataloss on case-insensitive filesystems (Savannah  
#21253)
        - Finish windows support / Build instructions for Windows


Andrew


New in v1.1.16 (2008/06/17)
---------------------------

Properly preserve hard links when the destination does not support them.
Thanks to Andreas Olsson for noticing the problem. (Andrew Ferguson)

Fix another case where rdiff-backup fails because it has insufficient
permissions on a file it owns. Thanks to Peter Schuller for the test
case. (Andrew Ferguson)

Don't abort if can't read extended attributes or ACL because the path is
considered bad by the EA/ACL subsystem; print a warning instead. Problem
reported by Farkas Levente. (Andrew Ferguson)

rdiff-backup-statistics enhancements suggested by James Marsh: flush  
stdout
before running other commands, and add a --quiet option to suppress  
printing
the "Processing statistics from session..." lines. (Andrew Ferguson)

Don't set modification times for directories on Windows. Also, assume
that user has access to all files on Windows since there is no support
for getuid(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Add Windows-specific logic for checking if another rdiff-backup process
is running. Do not try to handle non-existant SIGHUP and SIGQUIT signals
on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Do not use inode numbers on Windows and gracefully handle attempts to
rename over existing files on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Finally fix 'No such file or directory' bug when attempting to regress  
after
a failed backup. (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Improve Unicode support by escaping Unicode characters in filenames
when printing them in log messages from eas_acls.py. (Fix from
Saptarshi Guha)

Handle Windows' lack of getuid(), getgid(), hardlinks and symlinks in
fs_abilities.py. Use subproces.Popen() on Windows since it does not  
support
os.popen2(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Let setup.py accept arguments on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Get cmodule.c building natively on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)

Don't give up right away if we can't open a file. Try chmod'ing it even
if we aren't root or don't own it, since that can sometimes work on AFS
and NFS. Closes Savannah bug #21202. (Andrew Ferguson)

Correctly handle updates to nested directories with unreadable  
permissions.
Thanks to John Goerzen for the bug report. Closes Debian bugs #389134  
and
#411849. (Andrew Ferguson)

Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby.

Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing- 
up
over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Change high-bit permissions test to check both files and directories.
Improves rdiff-backup's support for AFS and closes Debian bug #450409.
(Patch from Marc Horowitz)

rdiff-backup-statistics now supports quoted repositories. Closes  
Savannah
bug #21813. (Andrew Ferguson)

Add EBADF to the list of recoverable errors when fsync() is called. This
fixes an rdiff-backup error on AIX and IRIX. Closes Savannah bug #15839.
(Fix from Peter O'Gorman)

Properly initialize new QuotedRPaths. Fixes --list-at-time, etc. when
the target is remote. (Andrew Ferguson)