Cedar Backup v2.7.1 Released

[Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>]

Cedar Backup v2.7.1 has been released.  This release contains a few
small changes, and is focused around a fix to the incremental backup
process.  

In v2.7.0, I changed the incremental backup process to be more
efficient, and accidentally broke it in a subtle way.  Incremental
backups are supposed to be weekly in scope, but the new code resulted in
a full backup every other day, due to the way the digest file was
written to disk.  There were regression tests covering this
functionality, but they tested the wrong behavior.  I have fixed both
the code and the regression tests.

Here is the official changelog entry:

Version 2.7.1  13 Dec 2005

   * Tweak the CREDITS file to fix a few typos.
   * Remove completed tasks in TODO file and reorganize it slightly.
   * Get rid of sys.exit() calls in util/test.py in favor of simple returns.
   * Fix implementation of BackupFileList.removeUnchanged(captureDigest=True).
     - Since version 2.7.0, digest only included backed-up (unchanged) files
     - This release fixes code so digest is captured for all files in the list
     - Fixed captureDigest test cases, which were testing for wrong results
   * Make some more updates to the user manual based on further proof-reading.
     - Rework description of "midnight boundary" warning slightly in basic.xml
     - Change "Which Linux Distribution?" to "Which Platform?" in config.xml
     - Fix a few typos and misspellings in basic.xml

You can get the latest Python source package from this URL:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/ftp/software/CedarBackup2-2.7.1.tar.gz

You can get the latest Debian package from the Cedar Solutions APT
source, or from this URL:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/ftp/debian/dists/etch/binary-i386/admin/cedar-backup2/cedar-backup2_2.7.1-1_all.deb

Users of the Debian 'unstable' distribution can also install the latest
Debian package from their favorite Debian mirror.

Note that as of release v2.5.0, I am no longer providing updated
packages for the Debian 'oldstable' release, codenamed woody.  The Cedar
Solutions APT source for woody went away permanently in September 2005.

Please write the list or file a bug in Bugzilla if you notice any
problems with this release.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/


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