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Denis Corbin | 15 Apr 16:25
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dar release 2.4.5 is available


Hi,

source packages and windows binaries for release 2.4.5 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.5/

Release 2.4.5 brings several bug fixes which are detailed in the extract
of the Changelog below.

Thanks to Piotr Domanski and Paolo Sala for bug report. Thanks to
Andreas Wolff for feedback and bug fix. And a Big Thank to Neil Darlow
who provided a great support in solving a bug in libdar that only
expressed on ArchLinux and dynamic binary and infinint mode when used at
the same time.

Cheers,
Denis Corbin

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from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5
updated sample scripts to be compatible with dar's --min-digit option
added missing included file to be able to compile with gcc-4.7.0
removing an unused variable in filtre.cpp
fixed a display bug when comparing archive with filesystem, leading
  to a segmentation fault (%S in place of %i in mask)
fixed bug leading dar to not restore some directories from
  differential backups when they are absent in the filesystem
fixed bug that show a "uncaught exception" message at the end of
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Denis Corbin | 17 Mar 17:38
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dar release 2.4.4 is available


Hi,

source packages and windows binaries for release 2.4.4 are available at:	

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.4/

Release 2.4.4 brings several bug fixes and a minor man page update as
detailed in the extract of the Changelog below.

Thanks to Jürgen Nagler-Ihlein for bugs report.

Cheers,
Denis Corbin

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from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4
fixed man pages in the NAME section: added whatis entry
fixed segfault: in the internal error reporting code (delete[] in
place of free())
fixed bug: dar_manager was not able to read properly the latest
generated databases version when having Extended Attributes recorded for
some files
avoided reporting unreleased memory block when compilation
optimization have been used (dar, dar_manager, dar_cp, dar_slave,
dar_xform do all reported unreleased memory when gcc optimization was
used in "infinint" mode)
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Denis Corbin | 26 Feb 19:03
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dar releases 2.4.3 and 2.3.12 are available


Hi,

source packages and windows binaries for
	release 2.4.3 and for
	release 2.3.12 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.2/
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.3.12/

Release 2.4.3 brings several minor bug fixes and some improvement that
focus on memory usage. This release uses a bit less memory and is a bit
faster than 2.4.2. Its speed of execution is equivalent to 2.3.x
releases if you disable two new features appeared in 2.4.0:
	tape makes (-at option) and sparse file handling (-1 0)

Release 2.3.12 only adds a warning to prevent concurrent use of -p and
-Q options.

For more details on these two new releases, find below an extract of the
Changelog.

With the very little number of bug reported about releases in the branch
2.4.x since soon one year, branch 2.3.x will come to its end of support
at the end of the year.

I would also like to thank Jürgen Nagler-Ihlein for bug report, and
Stefan J. Betz, Philippe Naudin, Vladimir Mosgalin and Andrea Vai for
help in troubleshooting dar's memory usage. In the hope not to forget
anyone that participated in this "adventure" ... ;-)
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Denis Corbin | 5 Sep 14:35
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dar 2.4.2 release available


Hi,

source package and windows binary for release 2.4.2 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.2/

This release brings several minor bug fixes as listed below.

Cheers,
Denis.

from 2.4.2 to 2.4.2
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fixing bug met when reading an archive in sequential-read mode
fixing bug while filtering in sequential-read mode
fixing backward compatibility in dar_manager with old archives
  (wrong dates for deleted files).
fixing compilation problem on certain systems (missing #include
  statement)
fixing documentation syntax and spelling
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Denis Corbin | 21 Jul 17:44
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dar 2.4.1 release available


Hi,

source package and windows binary for release 2.4.1 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.1/

This release brings several bug fixes and for dar_manager a new minor
feature (see its -k option detailed in man page).

Cheers,
Denis.

from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1
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adding information about "Cache Directory Tagging Standard" in
doc/Feature.html
fixing typo in doc/presentation.html
fixing incomplete information in doc/usage_notes.html
rewriting sample scripts from tcsh to bash in doc/usage_notes.html
updating Swedish translation with the last version from Peter Landgren
  which has been forgotten for 2.4.0, sorry.
fixing installation problem, where src/libdar/nls_swap.hpp was not
installed
fixing version returned by libdar_4_4::get_version to let kdar (or
other external program relying on the backward compatible API) working
as expected
fixed bug in the code determining whether a directory is a
subdirectory of another. This bug could lead dar to restore more files
that just the one that were specified with -g option.
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Denis Corbin | 2 Jun 19:29
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dar 2.4.0 released available


Hi,

source package and windows binary for release 2.4.0 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.0/

it provides a lot of new features and improvments which list is given
below. Thank to all that helped in testing, feedback, bug report and
messages translation.

Cheers,
Denis.

from 2.3.x to 2.4.0
=====================
* hard links support for pipes, soft links, char and block devices has
been added (so far, only hard links on plain files were supported)
* added rich overwriting feature for merging archives (-/ option)
* changed default behavior of dar: it no more tries to preserve the
atime of read files, which had as side effect to modify the ctime. See
man page for -aa and -ac options for details
* simplified the use of the "sed" command in Makefiles.am files
* integrated Wiebe Cazemier's patch for man page
* -E option has been extended to work also when generating a single
sliced archive (no need to have -s option to be able to use -E option).
* slice header has been extended to store additional information (slice
 layout is now redundant in each each slice and may be used as backup
from a slice to another in case of corruption).
* dar does no more need to read the first then the last slice of an
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Denis Corbin | 18 Apr 18:58
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dar 2.4.0 in pre-release phase


Hi,

Time has come for a new major release to take place. In a few weeks,
pre-release phase for version 2.4.0 will end and give place to a new
major release, until that time you can already test its source code and
windows binary at:

	http://dar.linux.free.fr/pre-release

The pre-release phase has started quite in secret at the beginning of
this year and has received a growing number of visitors as time passed.
Today after seven revisions, the code is found stable enough to increase
even more the pre-release audience.

You are thus welcome to try it, test its compilation process under your
environment, playing with its new and old features... and report any
problem to the the dar-support mailing-list or better to the pre-release
mailing-list at:

	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dar-pre-release

Here follows the list of new features brought by 2.4.0.

Best Regards,
Denis Corbin.

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Changes from 2.3.x to 2.4.0:
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Denis Corbin | 12 Mar 17:15
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dar/libdar Release 2.3.11 is available


Hi,

release 2.3.11 is available (as usually from sourceforge):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612

Packages signature are available at
homepage http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/

Follows below the list of changes.

Kind Regards,
Denis Corbin.

version 2.3.10 to 2.3.11
fixed bug in the detection code of an existing archive of the same
name when creating a new archive (improperly considered some files
sharing a part of the archive basename as old slices of an archive of
the same base name).
fixed a display bug. When using -v to see which arguments get passed
to dar by mean of configuration file (DCF file, ~/.darrc or /etc/darrc)
the last argument found in file was not displayed.
fixed two bugs (one in decompression routine, the other in decryption
routine) that lead dar to segfault or run into an endless loop when
reading a very corrupted archive.
added -H option with -d option
fixed bug leading Dar to report some files to be removed at
restoration time to be of different type than the expected one when the
reference used for that archive (difference backup) was an extracted
catalogue.
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Denis Corbin | 8 May 18:19
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BUG : Removing of old slices before archive creation


Hi,

There is a anoying bug in the way libdar removes old slices of an
archive having the same name as the one about to be created.

While this operation is always done upon user agreement, it may lead dar
or dar_xform to remove slices of an archive having a similar name but
not exactly the same name.

This problem is due to the glob expression used "<basename>.*.dar" which
may match more than just slices of archive which basename is
"<basename>". Here is an example :

If one has an old archive with slices "example.test.1.dar" and
"example.test.2.dar" in a directory and is about to create an archive
using the basename "example" (thus slices with name "example.1.dar",
"example.2.dar" and so on) in that same directory, dar will wrongly
consider that "example.test.1.dar" is an old slice of the same archive
name because it matches the "example.*.dar" glob expression.

More generally, if you do not use any dot in the archive basename, you
are not concerned by this bug. If you do not use archive name that is
portion of another archive name you are not concerned by this bug
neither. Last, if you do not create several archives in the same
directory you are neither concerned by this bug.

Instead, you are concerned by this bug only if you follow the three
previous conditions : having dot in archive basename, having archive
basename being a subset of another archive basename, having this other
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Denis Corbin | 9 Apr 20:21
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Release 2.3.10 is available


Hello,

release 2.3.10 is available (as usually from sourceforge):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612

Packages signature are available at
homepage http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/

Follows below the list of changes.

Kind Regards,
Denis Corbin.

added patch by Jan-Pascal van Best to have -[ and -] options working
  with archive merging
fixed bug in displaying dates [SF 2922417]
enhanced pseudo-random number generation used in dar
added an error message when an include/exclude file listing does not
  contains an invalid path (instead of a self reported bug message).
modified message displayed when some slice of an old archive having
  the same name are present in the destination directory (backup,
  isolation, merging, dar_xform)

P.S.: binary version for windows is not yet available.
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Denis Corbin | 22 May 17:38
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Release 2.3.9 is available


Hello,

release 2.3.9 is available (as usually from sourceforge):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612

Packages signature are available at
homepage http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/

Follows below the list of changes.

Kind Regards,
Denis Corbin.

fixed bashism in doc/examples/pause_every_n_slice.duc sample script
   [SF 2020090]
added Jason Lewis's script "dar_backups.sh" which is an enhanced
version of the script done by Roi Rodriguez Mendez & Mauro Silvosa Rivera.
added message asking software upgrade to handle case when new archive
format (used by dar >= 2.4.0) is provided to dar
very little optimization of the reading process of EA
updated FAQ
replaced "Catalogue" by "Archive Contents" in output message (-l -v).
added Sergey Feo's patch to dar_par.dcf
added check against stddef.h header file presence in configure script
fixed spelling
added Charles's Script in doc/sample
added -q option to dar (no impact on libdar)
added licensing exception to allow distribution of dar beside OpenSSL
library
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