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This 5.2.0 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
-It includes well over 50,000 lines of changes and a number of important
-new features:
+It includes well over 50,000 lines of changes made by 19 contributors
+and a number of important new features:
Compatibility:
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The new pruning algorithm will not allow to prune jobs that are essential to
- restore since the last Full backup. (TODO: see for an option...)
+ restore since the last Full backup. Pruning of volumes are not affected.
New Catalog format in version 5.2.0
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Changes:
Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
-- Implement LZO compression algorithm
+- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
Security Enhancements:
- Additional security against injection of illegal characters
-- Possible fnmatch problem
+- Fix possible fnmatch problem
Features Enhancements:
- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
- Significant stability enhancements to bat
- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
-Bug fixes
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-This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
+The 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
It includes new code and some new features.
There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.