Changelog

2.0.0 (Unreleased Development)

Changed

• Breaking: Minimal Python version 3.13 increased
• Changelog migrated to Common Changelog standard
• Build: Changelog shipped as HTML

Added

• Build dependency pandoc to convert markdown changelog into HTML

Fixed

• Prevent Back In Time crash when a plugin fails (#2447)

1.6.1 (2026-02-10)

Fixed

• SSH-Key selector widget handle binary keys, missing but configured keys (#2399, #2400)
• SSH-Key selector widget is more robust on unexpected edge cases (#2399, #2400)
• Install backintime-config man page in correct location

1.6.0 (2026-02-08)

Changed

• Breaking Disable EncFS for creation of new backup profiles (#2315, #1734)
• Breaking A “snapshot” now is a “backup” (#1929)
• Breaking Deprecated and removed make targets: “test”, “test-v”, “unittest”, “unittest-v”
• Manpage backintime-config moved from section 1 to 5 (#1773)
• New dependency “bash” for root mode starter script “backintime-qt_polkit” (#2328)
• New dependency (runtime GUI) to “python3-pyqt6.qtsvg” for loading SVG icons (#1961)
• Disable scheduling widget in GUI if cron/crontab is missing (#2245, @m4rcu5 Marcus von Dam)
• Expert Options replaced two checkboxes with single widget to configure symlink copying behavior (#1652)
• “Repeatedly (anacron)” scheduling behave consistent. Reversed minor bug introduced with 060324e (#1791) in 1.5.3 (#2250)
• Stricter permissions (600) for fileinfo.bz2 and takesnapshot.log.bz2 (#2235)
• Unlocking ssh-agent use “force” instead of “prefer” for SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE (#2170) (@daviewales)
• Stop passing window ID when inhibiting suspend via D-Bus power manager (#2084)
• Reorder DBUS service provider list for suspend mode inhibition (#2084)
• Man pages generated from AsciiDoc, except backintime-config (#2085)
• Deprecate command “benchmark-cipher” (#2120)
• Deprecate command “snapshots-path” (#2130)
• Deprecate commands “snapshots-list”, “snapshots-list-path”, “last-snapshots” and “last-snapshot-path” (#2130)
• Deprecate command “smart-remove” (#2124)
• Deprecate command “backup-job” (#2124)
• Deprecate command “remove-and-do-not-ask-again” (#2124)
• Deprecate command “decode” (#2124)
• Deprecate flag-like command aliases (e.g. “–backup” for “backup”) (#2124)
• Deprecate argument flag “–profile-id” (#2125)
• Deprecate argument flag “–share-path” (#2124)
• Deprecate use of SSH Cipher (#2143)
• Prefer ed25519 SSH keys (if present) for new created profiles (#2094)
• Generating new SSH key will use default key type provided by ssh-keygen (#2194)
• Open man page and changelog in a text dialog
• Minimum PyLint version increased to 4.0.0

Added

• Language Georgian (ka)
• Gocryptfs for local encrypted profiles (#1897, #1734, @germar, @daviewales)
• Dialog to suggest commonly used files/dirs/patterns for backup exclusion (#2309)
• Systray icon can be forced to Dark or Light
• Application logo and symbolic systray icon (#1961, Gregory Deseck @gregorydk)
• Root mode indicator in status bar (#1964)
• Option to not using an explicit SSH key file. In consequence this supports extern key agents and SSH clients own configuration (#1146)
• SSH-Key selector widget in Manage profiles dialog (#1146, #2094, #2095, #2275 @m4rcu5 Marcus van Dam)
• “ETA” value in status bar (#2101)
• Shutdown confirmation dialog (#2102) (Huaide Jiang @LatiosInAltoMare)
• Check and warn if include list entries do not exists in backup source (#1586) (@rafaelhdr)
• Asciidoctor as build dependence (#2085)
• Command “show” to replace “snapshots-list”, “snapshots-list-path”, “last-snapshots” and “last-snapshot-path” (#2130)
• Command “prune” to replace “smart-remove” (#2124)
• Flag “–background” for command “backup” to replace command “backup-job” (#2124)
• Flag “–skip-confirmation” for command “remove” to replace command “remove-and-do-not-ask-again” (#2124)
• Flag “–profile” accept ID’s beside names only (#2125)
• Flag “-p” as alias for “–profile” (#2125)
• “Less storage space” threshold to warn the user (#2110) (@fest6)
• Remember size and position of Manage profiles dialog
• User-callback editor offer a default script in case no script exists (#1331)

Removed

• Breaking Drop Python support for version 3.9 & 3.10 (#2129)
• Stop using QWindow.winId() (#2084)
• UI translation in Bosnian, Thai, and Occidental/Interlingue (#1914)
• LICENSE file in favor of LICENSES directory and LICENSES.md file
• SSH Cipher configuration in Manage profiles dialog (#2143)

Fixed

• Crash in config restore dialog
• Consider symbolic icons as fallbacks (#2345, #2289)
• Warn users and prevent backups to exFAT volumes due to lack of hardlink support (#2337)
• Show proper message to users when root mode fails due to inactive or missing polkit agent (#2328, Derek Veit @DerekVeit)
• Crash in Compare snapshots dialog (aka Snapshots dialog) when comparing/diff two backups (#2327 Michael Neese @madic-creates)
• File view and Compare Backups dialog now open the clicked item correctly even with multiple selection or single-click-to-open enabled (#2330)
• Crash in Compare snapshots dialog (aka Snapshots dialog) when comparing/diff two backups (#2327 Michael Neese @madic-creates)
• Enforce UTF-8 encoding in takesnapshot.log and some other files (#2298)
• Attribute error about missing ‘cbCopyUnsafeLinks’ (#2279)
• Use LC_ALL instead of LC_TIME to set the locale
• Optimize subparsers and usage output (#2132)
• Re-design about dialog (#1936)
• Stop waking up monitor when inhibit suspend on backup starts (#714, #1090)
• Avoid shutdown confirmation dialog on Budgie and Cinnamon desktop environments (#788)
• Crash in “Manage profiles” dialog when using “qt6ct” (#2128)
• Breaking Systray process no longer exposes sensitive backup profile information when the desktop session belongs to another user (#2237, reported and co-authored by @samo-sk)
• Allow in BITs root-mode opening URLs in extern browse

1.5.6 (2025-10-05)

Fixed

• Always use 0 as window ID value when inhibiting suspend via D-Bus power manager (#2084, #2268, #2192)
• Crash in “Manage profiles” dialog when using “qt6ct” (#2128)
• Open online changelog if local CHANGES file is missing (#2266)
• Disable opening browser (e.g. project website) in root-mode

1.5.5 (2025-06-05)

Fixed

• Unlocking SSH keys with passphrases on new created profiles (#2164) (@davidfjoh)

1.5.4 (2025-03-24)

Uncategorized

• Breaking Change: Auto-remove rules “Free inodes” and “Free space” disabled by default in new created profiles (#1976)
• Fix!: Smart-remove rule “Keep one snapshots per week or the last week” use calendar weeks
• Doc: Remove & Retention (formally known as Auto-/Smart-Remove) with improved GUI and user manual section (#2000)

Changed

• Completed license information to conform to REUSE.software and SPDX standards.
• More clear and intense warning about EncFS deprecation and removal (#1904)
• Updated desktop entry files
• Move several values from config file into new introduce state file ($XDG_STATE_HOME/backintime.json)

Fixed

• Exclude patterns are now case-sensitive when added (#2040)
• The width of the fourth column in files view is now saved
• Snapshot compare copy symlink as symlink (#1902) (Peter Sevens @sevens)
• Crash when comparing a snapshot with a symlink pointing to a nonexistent target (Peter Sevens @sevens)
• Crash (KeyError) opening language setup dialog with unknown locale/language

Added

• Open user manual (local if available otherwise online) via Help menu
• Toolbar context menu to display the buttons in different combinations with icons and text (#1105, #2002) (Samuel Moore @s4moore)
• Add offset minutes to hourly schedules (David Gibbs @fallingrock)

1.5.3 (2024-11-13)

Uncategorized

• Doc: User manual (build with MkDocs) (#1838) (Kosta Vukicevic @stcksmsh)
• Doc: User-callback topic in user manual (#1659)
• Refactor!: Remove unused config field “user_callback.no_logging” (#1887)
• Refactor!: Remove eCryptFS check for home folder (#1855)
• Build: Replace “pycodestyle” linter with “flake8” (#1839)

Added

• Support language Interlingua (Occidental)
• Warn if destination directory is formatted as NTFS (#1854) (David Gibbs @fallingrock)
• Support fcron (#610)
• User message about release candidate (#1906)

Fixed

• Prevent duplicates in Exclude/Include list of Manage Profiles dialog
• Fix Qt segmentation fault when canceling out of unconfigured BiT (#1095) (Derek Veit @DerekVeit)
• Correct global flock fallbacks (#1834) (Timothy Southwick @NickNackGus)
• Use SSH key password only if it is valid, otherwise request it from user (#1852) (David Wales @daviewales)

Changed

• Breaking: Minimal Python version 3.9 required (#1731)
• Breaking: Auto migration of config version 4 or lower not longer supported (#1857)
• Dependency: Remove libnotify-bin (notify-send) (#1156)
• Dependency: PyFakeFS minimal version 5.6 (#1911)
• General tab and its Schedule section
• Own module for Manage Profiles dialog and separate Generals tab code (#1865)
• Remove class OrderedSet
• Remove os.system() from class Execute
• Systray notifications send utilize DBUS instead of notify-send (#1156) (Felix Stupp @Zocker1999NET)

1.5.2 (2024-08-06)

Fixed

• Ensure crontab with ending newline (#781)

Uncategorized

• Fix(translation): Correct corrupt translated strings in Basque, Islandic and Spanish causing application crashes (#1828)
• Build(translation): Language helper script processing syntax checks on po-files

1.5.1 (2024-07-27)

Fixed

• Use correct port to ping SSH Proxy (#1815)

1.5.0 (2024-07-26)

Uncategorized

• Dependency: Migration to PyQt6
• Breaking Change: EncFS deprecation warning (#1735, #1734)
• Breaking Change: GUI started with –debug does no longer add –debug to the crontab for scheduled profiles.
• Chore!: Remove “debian” folder (#1548)
• Build: Enable several PyLint rules (#1755, #1766)
• Build: Add AppStream meta data (#1642)
• Build: PyLint unit test is skipped if PyLint isn’t installed, but will always run on TravisCI (#1634)
• Build: Git commit hash is presevered while “make install” (#1637)
• Build: Fix bash-completion symlink creation while installing & adding –diagnostics (#1615)
• Build: TravisCI use PyQt (except arch “ppc64le”)

Added

• Warn if Cron is not running (#1747)
• Profile and GUI allow to activate debug output for scheduled jobs by adding ‘–debug’ to crontab entry (#1616, contributed by @stcksmsh Kosta Vukicevic)
• Support SSH proxy (jump) host (#1688) (@cgrinham, Christie Grinham)
• Support rsync ‘–one-file-system’ in Expert Options (#1598)
• “*-dev” version strings contain last commit hash (#1637)

Fixed

• Global flock fallback to single-user mode if insufficient permissions (#1743, #1751)
• Fix Qt segmentation fault with uninstall ExtraMouseButtonEventFilter when closing main window (#1095)
• Names of weekdays and months translated correct (#1729)
• Global flock for multiple users (#1122, #1676)
• “Backup folders” list does reflect the selected snapshot (#1585) (@rafaelhdr Rafael Hurpia da Rocha)
• Validation of diff command settings in compare snapshots dialog (#1662) (@stcksmsh Kosta Vukicevic)
• Open symlinked folders in file view (#1476)
• Respect dark mode using color roles (#1601)
• “Highly recommended” exclusion pattern in “Manage Profile” dialog’s “Exclude” tab show missing only (#1620)
• make install ignored $(DEST) in file migration part (#1630)

Removed

• Context menu in LogViewDialog (#1578)
• Field “filesystem_mount” and “snapshot_version” in “info” file (#1684)

Changed

• Replace Config.user() with getpass.getuser() (#1694)

1.4.3 (2024-01-30)

Added

• Exclude ‘SingletonLock’ and ‘SingletonCookie’ (Discord) and ‘lock’ (Mozilla Firefox) files by default (part of #1555)

Uncategorized

• Work around: Relax rsync exit code 23: Ignore instead of error now (part of #1587)
• Feature (experimental): Add new snapshot log filter rsync transfer failures (experimental) to find them easier (they are normally not shown as “error”).
  
• Improve: Launcher for BiT GUI (root) does not enforce Wayland anymore but uses same settings as for BiT GUI (userland) (#1350)
• Change of semantics: BiT running as root never disables suspend during taking a backup (“inhibit suspend”) even though this may have worked before in BiT <= v1.4.1 sometimes (required to fix #1592)
• Build: Use PyLint in unit testing to catch E1101 (no-member) errors.
• Build: Activate PyLint warning W1401 (anomalous-backslash-in-string).
• Build: Add codespell config.
• Build: Allow manual specification of python executable (–python=PYTHON_PATH) in common/configure and qt/configure
• Build: All starter scripts do use an absolute path to the python executable by default now via common/configure and qt/configure (#1574)
• Build: Install dbus configuration file to /usr/share not /etc (#1596)
• Build: configure does delete old installed files (qt4plugin.py and net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper.conf) that were renamed or moved in a previous release (#1596)
• Translation: Minor modifications in source strings and updating language files.
• Improved: qtsystrayicon.py, qt5_probing.py, usercallbackplugin.py and all parts of app.py

Fixed

• ‘qt5_probing.py’ hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592 and #1580)
• Launching BiT GUI (root) hangs on Wayland without showing the GUI (#836)
• Disabling suspend during taking a backup (“inhibit suspend”) hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592)
• RTE: module ‘qttools’ has no attribute ‘initate_translator’ with encFS when prompting the user for a password (#1553).
• Schedule dropdown menu used “minutes” instead of “hours”.
• Unhandled exception “TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object is not callable” in tools.py function __log_keyring_warning (#820).

Changed

• Solved circular dependency between tools.py and logger.py to fix #820

1.4.1 (2023-10-01)

Uncategorized

• Dependency: Add “qt translations” to GUI runtime dependencies (#1538).
• Build: Unit tests do generically ignore all instead of well-known warnings now (#1539).
• Build: Warnings about missing Qt translation now are ignored while testing (#1537).

Fixed

• GUI didn’t start when “show hidden files” button was on (#1535).

1.4.0 (2023-09-14)

Uncategorized

• Project: Renamed branch “master” to “main” and started “gitflow” branching model.
• GUI Change: View last (snapshot) log button in GUI uses “document-open-recent” icon now instead of “document-new” (#1386)
• Breaking change: Minimal Python version 3.8 required (#1358).
• Documentation: Removed outdated docbook (#1345).
• Testing: TravisCI now can use dbus
• Build: Introduced .readthedocs.yaml as asked by ReadTheDocs.org (#1443).
• Dependency: The oxygen icons should be installed with the BiT Qt GUI since they are used as fallback in case of missing icons
• Translation: Strings to translate now easier to understand for translators (#1448, #1457, #1462, #1465).
• Translation: Improved completeness of translations and additional modifications of source strings (#1454, #1512)
• Translation: Plural forms support (#1488).

Changed

• Renamed qt4plugin.py to systrayiconplugin.py (we are using Qt5 for years now ;-)
• Removed unfinished feature “Full system backup” (#1526)

Fixed

• AttributeError: can’t set attribute ‘showHiddenFiles’ in app.py (#1532)
• Check SSH login works on machines with limited commands (#1442)
• Missing icon in SSH private key button (#1364)
• Master issue for missing or empty system-tray icon (#1306)
• System-tray icon missing or empty (GUI and cron) (#1236)
• Improve KDE plasma icon compatibility (#1159)
• Unit test fails on some machines due to warning “Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome…” (#1429)
• Generation of config-manpage caused an error with Debian’s Lintian (#1398).
• Return empty list in smartRemove (#1392, Debian#973760)
• Taking a snapshot reports rsync errors now even if no snapshot was taken (#1491)
• takeSnapshot() recognizes errors now by also evaluating the rsync exit code (#489)
• The error user-callback is now always called if an error happened while taking a snapshot (#1491)
• D-Bus serviceHelper error “LimitExceeded: Maximum length of command line reached (100)”:
• Treat rsync exit code 24 as INFO instead of ERROR (#1506)
• Add support for ChainerBackend class as keyring which iterates over all supported keyring backends (#1410)

Added

• Introduce new error codes for the “error” user callback (as part of #1491):
  
• The rsync exit code is now contained in the snapshot log (part of #489). Example:
• Exclude /swapfile by default (#1053)
• Rearranged menu bar and its entries in the main window (#1487, #1478).
• Configure user interface language via config file and GUI.
• Translation in Persian and Vietnamese (#1460).
• Message to users (after 10 starts of BIT Gui) to motivate them contributing translations (#1473).

Removed

• Handling and checking of user group “fuse” (#1472).
• Translation in Canadian English, British English and Javanese (#1455).

1.3.3 (2023-01-04)

Added

• New command line argument “–diagnostics” to show helpful info for better issue support (#1100)
• Write all log output to stderr; do not pollute stdout with INFO and WARNING messages anymore (#1337)

Uncategorized

• GUI change: Remove Exit button from the toolbar (#172)
• GUI change: Define accelerator keys for menu bar and tabs, as well as toolbar shortcuts (#1104)
• Desktop integration: Update .desktop file to mark Back In Time as a single main window program (#1258)
• Documentation update: Correct description of profile.schedule.time in backintime-config manpage (#1270)
• Translation update: Brazilian Portuguese (#1267)
• Translation update: Italian (#1110, #1123)
• Translation update: French (#1077)
• Testing: Fix a test fail when dealing with an empty crontab (#1181)
• Testing: Fix a test fail when dealing with an empty config file (#1305)
• Testing: Skip “test_quiet_mode” (does not work reliably)
• Testing: Improve “test_diagnostics_arg” (introduced with #1100) to no longer fail
• Testing: Numerous fixes and extensions to testing (#1115, #1213, #1279, #1280, #1281, #1285, #1288, #1290, #1293, #1309, #1334)

Fixed

• RTE “reentrant call inside io.BufferedWriter” in logFile.flush() during backup (#1003)
• Incompatibility with rsync 3.2.4 or later because of rsync’s “new argument protection” (#1247). Deactivate “–old-args” rsync argument earlier recommended to users as a workaround.
• DeprecationWarnings about invalid escape sequences.
• AttributeError in “Diff Options” dialog (#898)
• Settings GUI: “Save password to Keyring” was disabled due to “no appropriate keyring found” (#1321)
• Back in Time did not start with D-Bus error
  
• Avoid logging errors while waiting for a target drive to be mounted (#1142, #1143, #1328)
• [Arch Linux] AUR pkg “backintime-git”: Build tests fails and installation is aborted (#1233, fixed with #921)
• Wrong systray icon showing in Wayland (#1244)

1.3.2 (2022-03-12)

Fixed

• Tests no longer work with Python 3.10 (#1175)

1.3.1 (2021-07-05)

Uncategorized

• bump version, forgot to push branch to Github before releasing

1.3.0 (2021-07-04)

Uncategorized

• Merge PR: Fix FileNotFoundError exception in mount.mounted, Thanks tatokis (PR #1157)
• Merge PR: qt/plugins/notifyplugin: Fix setting self.user, not local variable, Thanks Zocker1999NET (PR #1155)
• Merge PR: Use Link Color instead of lightGray as not to break theming, Thanks newhinton (PR #1153)
• Merge PR: Match old and new rsync version format, Thanks TheTimeWalker (PR #1139)
• Merge PR: ‘TempPasswordThread’ object has no attribute ‘isAlive’, Thanks FMeinicke (PR #1135)
• Merge PR: Keep permissions of an existing mountpoint from being overridden, Thanks bentolor (PR #1058)

Fixed

• YEAR missing in config (#1023)
• SSH module didn’t send identification string while checking if remote host is available (#1030)

1.2.1 (2019-08-25)

Fixed

• TypeError in backintime.py if mount failed while running a snapshot (#1005)

1.2.0 (2019-04-27)

Fixed

• Exit code is linked to the wrong status message (#906)
• AppName showed ‘python3’ instead of ‘Back In Time’ (#950)
• configured cipher is not used with all ssh-commands (#934)
• ‘make test’ fails because local SSH server is running on non-standard port (#945)
• 23:00 is missing in the list of every day hours (#736)
• ssh-agent output changed (#840)
• exception on making backintime folder world writable (#812)
• stat free space for snapshot folder instead of backintime folder (#733)
• backintime root crontab doesn’t run; missing line-feed 0x0A on last line (#781)
• IndexError in inhibitSuspend (#772)
• polkit CheckAuthorization: race condition in privilege authorization (CVE-2017-7572)
• OSError when running backup-job from systemd (#720)
• restore filesystem-root without ‘Full rsync mode’ with ACL and/or xargs activated broke whole system (#708)
• use current folder if no file is selected in files view (#687, #685)
• don’t reload profile after editing profile name (#706)
• Exception in FileInfo
• failed to restore suid permissions (#661)
• on remount user-callback got called AFTER trying to mount (#654)
• confirm restore dialog has no scroll bar (#625)
• DEFAULT_EXCLUDE not deletable (#634)
• GUI status bar unreadable (#612)
• udev schedule not working (#605)
• decode path spooled from /etc/mtab (PR #607)
• in snapshots.py, gives more helpful advice if a lock file is present that shouldn’t be. (#601)
• Fail to create remote snapshot path with spaces (#567)
• broken new_snapshot can run into infinite saveToContinue loop (#583)
• udev schedule didn’t work with LUKS encrypted drives (#466)
• sshMaxArg failed on none default ssh port (#581)
• failed if remote host send SSH banner (#581)
• incorrect handling of IPv6 addresses (#577)
• Snapshot Log View freeze on big log files (#456)
• ‘inotify_add_watch failed: file or directory not found’ after deleting snapshot
• a continued snapshot was not incremental (#557)
• config backup in snapshot had wrong name if using –config option
• Can’t open files with spaces in name (#552)
• BIT-root won’t start from .desktop file (#549)
• Keyring doesn’t work with KDE Plasma5 (#545)
• Qt4 built-in phrases where not translated (Debian#816197)
• configure ignore unknown args (#547)
• snapshots-list on command-line was not sorted
• SHA256 ssh-key fingerprint was not detected
• new snapshot did not show up after finished
• TimeLine headers were not correct
• wildcards ? and [] wasn’t recognized correctly
• last char of last element in tools.get_rsync_caps got cut off
• TypeError in tools.get_git_ref_hash
• don’t include empty values in list (#521)
• bash-completion doesn’t work for backintime-qt4
• ‘make unittest’ incorrectly used ‘coverage’ by default (#522)
• pm-utils is deprecated; Remove dependency (#519)

Uncategorized

• minor changes to allow running BiT inside Docker (PR #959)
• remove progressbar on systray icon until BiT has it’s own icon (#902)
• clarify ‘nocache’ option (#857)
• create a config-backup in root dir if backup is encrypted (#556)
• move progressbar under statusbar
• alleviate default exclude [Tt]rash* (#759)
• enable high DPI scaling (#732)
• Smart Remove try to keep healthy snapshots (#703)
• ask for restore-to path before confirm (#678)
• fix ‘Back in Time (root)’ on wayland (#640)
• sort int values in config numerical instead if alphabetical (#175#issuecomment-272941811)
• set timestamp directly after new snapshot (#584)
• add shortcut CTRL+H for toggle show hidden files to fileselect dialog (#378)
• redesign restore menu (#661)
• add ability to disable SSH command- and ping-check (#647)
• enable bwlimit for local profiles (#646)
• import remote host-key into known_hosts from Settings
• copy public SSH key to remote host from Settings
• create a new SSH key from Settings
• rename debian package from backintime-qt4 into backintime-qt
• rename paths and methods from qt4 into qt
• rename executable backintime-qt4 into backintime-qt
• new config version 6, rename qt4 keys into qt, add new domain for schedule
• check crontab entries on every GUI startup (#129)
• start a new ssh-agent instance only if necessary
• add cli command ‘shutdown’ (#596)
• make LogView and Settings Dialog non-modal (#608)
• port to Qt5/pyqt5 (#518)
• Recognize changes on previous runs while continuing new snapshots
• Add pause, resume and stop function for running snapshots (#474, #195)
• use rsync to save permissions
• replace os.system calls with subprocess.Popen
• automatically refresh log view if a snapshot is currently running
• make full-rsync mode default, remove the other mode
• use rsync to remove snapshots which will give a nice speedup (#151)
• open temporary local copy of files instead of original backup on double-click in GUI
• open current log directly from systray icon during taking a snapshot
• use Monospace font in logview
• Fix lintian warning: manpage-has-errors-from-man: bad argument name ‘P’
• Do not print ‘SnapshotID’ or ‘SnapshotPath’ if running ‘snapshots-list’ command (and other) with ‘–quiet’
• Remove dependency ‘ps’
• rewrite huge parts of snapshots.py

Removed

• unused and undocumented userscript plugin
• dependency for extended ‘find’ command on remote host
• backwards compatibility to version < 1.0

Added

• contextmenu for logview dialog which can copy, exclude and decode lines
• ‘Edit user-callback’ dialog
• cli command ‘smart-remove’
• option to decrypt paths in systray menu with mode ssh-encrypted
• tool-tips to restore menu
• –share-path option
• restore option –only-new
• button ‘Take snapshot with checksums’

Changed

• default configure option to –no-fuse-group as Ubuntu >= 12.04 don’t need fuse group-membership anymore

1.1.24 (2017-11-07)

Fixed

• shell injection in notify-send (#834, CVE-2017-16667)

1.1.22 (2017-10-28)

Fixed

• stat free space for snapshot folder instead of backintime folder (#733)
• backintime root crontab doesn’t run; missing line-feed 0x0A on last line (#781)
• can’t open files with spaces in name (#552)

1.1.20 (2017-04-09)

Fixed

• polkit CheckAuthorization: race condition in privilege authorization (CVE-2017-7572)

1.1.18 (2017-03-29)

Fixed

• manual snapshots from GUI didn’t work (#728)

1.1.16 (2017-03-28)

Fixed

• start a new ssh-agent instance only if necessary (#722)
• OSError when running backup-job from systemd (#720)

1.1.14 (2017-03-05)

Fixed

• udev schedule not working (#605)
• Keyring doesn’t work with KDE Plasma5 (#545)
• nameError in tools.make_dirs (#622)
• use current folder if no file is selected in files view
• restore filesystem-root without ‘Full rsync mode’ with ACL and/or xargs activated broke whole system (#708)

1.1.12 (2016-01-11)

Fixed

• remove x-terminal-emulator dependency (#515)
• AttributeError in About Dialog (#515)

1.1.10 (2016-01-09)

Fixed

• failed to remove empty lock file (#505)
• Restore the correct file owner and group fail if they are not present in system (#58)
• QObject::startTimer error on closing app
• FileNotFoundError while starting pw-cache from source
• suppress warning about failed inhibit suspend if run as root (#500)
• UI blocked/grayed out while removing snapshot (#487)
• pw-cache failed on leftover PID file, using ApplicationInstance now (#468)
• failed to parse some arguments (#492)
• failed to start GUI if launched from systray icon
• deleted snapshot is still listed in Timeline if using mode SSH (#493)
• PermissionError while deleting readonly files on sshfs mounted share (#490)
• create new encrypted profiles with encfs >= 1.8.0 failed (#477)
• AttributeError in common/tools.py if keyring is missing (#473)
• remote rename of ‘new_snapshot’ folder sometimes isn’t recognized locally; rename local now (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/271792)

Uncategorized

• Add Icon ‘show-hidden’ (#507)
• subclass ApplicationInstance in GUIApplicationInstance to reduce redundant code
• speed up app start by adding snapshots to timeline in background thread
• add warning on failed permission restore (#58)
• continue an unfinished new_snapshot if possible (#400)
• Add Nautilus-like shortcuts for navigating in file browser (#483)
• speed up mounting of SSH+encrypted profiles
• Move source code and bug tracking to GitHub

Added

• Modify for Full System Backup button to settings page, to change some profile settings
• get|set_list_value to configfile
• unittest (thanks to Dorian, Alexandre, Aurélien and Gregory from IAGL)

1.1.8 (2015-09-28)

Fixed

• unlock private SSH key run into 5sec timeout if password is empty
• BiT freeze when activate ‘Decode path’ in ‘Snapshot Log View’
• empty gray window appears when starting the gui as root (Launchpad#1493020)
• gnu_find_suffix_support doesn’t set back to True (Launchpad#1487781)
• lintian warning dbus-policy-without-send-destination
• dbus exception if dbus systembus is not running
• depend on virtual package cron-daemon instead of cron for compatibility with other cron implementations (Debian#776856)
• wasn’t able to start from alternate install dir (Launchpad#478689)
• wasn’t able to start from source dir
• ‘Inhibit Suspend’ fails with ‘org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit’ (Launchpad#1485242)
• No mounting while selecting a secondary profile in the gui (Launchpad#1481267)
• fix for bug Launchpad#1419466 broke crontab on Slackware
• fix for bug Launchpad#1431305 broke pw-cache on Ubuntu
• bash-complete
• Settings accepted empty strings for Host/User/Profile-ID (Launchpad#1477733)
• IndexError on ‘check_remote_commands’ due to too long args (Launchpad#1471930)
• Makefile has no uninstall target (Launchpad#1469152)

Uncategorized

• show current app name and profile ID in syslog (Launchpad#906213)
• Show ‘Profiles’ dropdown only in ‘Last Log Viewer’, add ‘Snapshots’ dropdown in ‘Snapshot Log Viewer’ (Launchpad#1478219)
• do not restore permission if they are identical with current permissions
• security issue: do not run user-callback in a shell
• apply timestamps-in-gzip.patch from Debian backintime/1.1.6-1 package
• run multiple smart-remove jobs in one screen session (Launchpad#1487781)
• use native Python code to check mountpoint
• Add expert option for stdout and stderr redirection in cronjobs (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/270105)
• show ‘man backintime’ on Help; remove link to backintime.le-web.org (Launchpad#1475995)
• add –local-backup, –no-local-backup and –delete option to restore on command-line (Launchpad#1467239)
• rewrite command-line argument parsing. Now using argparse

Added

• option to not log user-callback output
• error messages if PID file creation fail
• Warning about unsupported filesystems
• –debug argument
• ‘backup on restore’ option to confirm dialog
• check-config command for command-line
• expert option SSH command prefix

Removed

• shebang in common/askpass.py and common/create-manpage-backintime-config.py

1.1.6 (2015-06-27)

Uncategorized

• show Profile name in systrayicon menu
• make own Exceptions a childclass from BackInTimeException
• Specifying the SSH private key whenever ssh is called (Launchpad#1433682)
• add to in-/exclude directly from mainwindow (Launchpad#1454856)
• add option to run Smart Remove in background on remote host (Launchpad#1457210)
• Use current profile when starting GUI from Systray

Fixed

• encrypted remote backup hangs on ‘start encfsctl encode process’ (Launchpad#1455925)
• missing profile.name crashed GUI
• Segmentation fault caused by two QApplication instances (Launchpad#1463732)
• no Changes [C] log entries with ‘Check for changes’ disabled (Launchpad#1463367)
• some changed options from Settingsdialog where not respected during automatic tests after hitting OK
• python version check fails on python 3.3 (Launchpad#1463686)
• pw-cache didn’t start on Mint KDE because of missing stdout and stderr (Launchpad#1431305)
• failed to restore file names with white spaces using CLI (Launchpad#1435602)
• UnboundLocalError with ‘last_snapshot’ in _free_space (Launchpad#1437623)

Removed

• consolekit from dependencies

1.1.4 (2015-03-22)

Uncategorized

• add option to keep new snapshot with ‘full rsync mode’ regardless of changes (Launchpad#1434722)
• remove base64 encoding for passwords as it doesn’t add any security but broke the password process (Launchpad#1431305)
• add confirm dialog before restoring (Launchpad#438079)
• cache uuid in config so it doesn’t fail if the device isn’t plugged in (Launchpad#1426881)
• prevent snapshots from being removed with restore and delete; show warning if restore and delete filesystem root (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/262837)
• use ‘crontab’ instead of ‘crontab -’ to read from stdin (Launchpad#1419466)

Fixed

• wrong quote in ‘Save config file’
• Deleting the last snapshot does not update the last_snapshot symlink (Launchpad#1434724)
• Wrong status text in the tray icon (Launchpad#1429400)
• restore permissions of lots of files made BackInTime unresponsive (Launchpad#1428423)
• failed to restore file owner and group
• OSError in free_space; add alternate method to get free space
• ugly theme while running as root on Gnome based DEs (Launchpad#1418447)
• UnicodeError thrown if filename has broken charset (Launchpad#1419694)

Added

• option to run only one snapshot at a time
• warning about wrong Python version in configure
• bash-completion

1.1.2 (2015-02-04)

Uncategorized

• sort ‘Backup folders’ in main window
• save in- and exclude sort order
• use PolicyKit to install Udev rules
• move compression from install to build in Makefiles
• use pkexec to start backintime-qt4 as root

1.1.0 (2015-01-15)

Added

• tooltips for rsync options
• more user-callback events (on App start and exit, on mount and unmount)
• context menu to files view
• more default exclude; remove [Cc]ache* from exclude
• option for custom rsync-options
• ProgressBar for rsync
• progress for smart-remove
• –gksu/–gksudo arg to qt4/configure

Uncategorized

• make only one debian/control
• multiselect files to restore (Launchpad#1135886)
• force run manual snapshots on battery (Launchpad#861553)
• backup encfs config to local config folder
• apply ‘install-docs-move.patch’ from Debian package by Jonathan Wiltshire
• add restore option to delete new files during restore (Launchpad#1371951)
• use flock to prevent two instances running at the same time
• restore config dialog added (Launchpad#480391)
• inhibit suspend/hibernate while take_snapshot or restore
• use more reliable code for get_user
• implement anacrons functions inside BIT => more flexible schedules and no new timestamp if there was an error
• automatically run in background if started with ‘backintime –backup-job’
• fix typos and style warnings in manpages reported by Lintian (https://lintian.debian.org/full/jmw@debian.org.html#backintime_1.0.34-0.1)
• add exclude files by size (Launchpad#823719)
• optional run ‘rsync’ with ‘nocache’ (Launchpad#1344528)
• mark invalid exclude pattern with mode ssh-encrypted
• make Settingsdialog tabs scrollable
• remove colon (: ) restriction in exclude pattern
• prevent starting new snapshot if restore is running
• add top-level directory for tarball (Launchpad#1359076)
• multi selection in timeline => remove multiple snapshots with one click
• print warning if started with sudo
• ask to include symlinks target instead link (Launchpad#1117709)
• port to Python 3.x
• returncode >0 if there was an error (Launchpad#1040995)
• Enable user-callback script to cancel a backup by returning a non-zero exit code.
• merge backintime-notify into backintime-qt4
• remember last path for each profile (Launchpad#1254870)
• sort include and exclude list (Launchpad#1193149)
• Timeline show tooltip ‘Last check’
• show hidden files in FileDialog (Launchpad#995925)
• add button text for all buttons (Launchpad#992020)
• add shortcuts (Launchpad#686694)
• add menubar (Launchpad#528851)
• port KDE4 GUI to pure Qt4 to replace both KDE4 and Gnome GUI

Removed

• ‘Auto Host/User/Profile-ID’ as this is more confusing than helping
• snapshots from commandline
• old status-bar message after a snapshot crashed.

Fixed

• check procname of pid-locks (Launchpad#1341414)
• Port check failed on IPv6 (Launchpad#1361634)
• ‘inotify_add_watch failed’ while closing BIT
• systray icon didn’t show up (Launchpad#658424)

1.0.40 (2014-11-02)

Uncategorized

• use fingerprint to check if ssh key was unlocked correctly (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/256408)
• add fallback method to get UUID (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/254140)

Fixed

• ‘Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked’… this time for good

1.0.38 (2014-10-01)

Fixed

• ‘Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked’ in gnomeplugin (https://answers.launchpad.net/questions/255225)
• housekeeping by gnome-session-daemon might delete backup and original data (Launchpad#1374343)
• Type Error in ‘backintime –decode’ (Launchpad#1365072)
• take_snapshot didn’t wait for snapshot folder come available if notifications are disabled (Launchpad#1332979)

Uncategorized

• compare os.path.realpath instead of os.stat to get devices UUID

1.0.36 (2014-08-06)

Uncategorized

• remove UbuntuOne from exclude (Launchpad#1340131)
• Gray out ‘Add Profile’ if ‘Main Profile’ isn’t configured yet (Launchpad#1335545)
• Don’t check for fuse group-membership if group doesn’t exist
• disable keyring for root

Fixed

• backintime-kde4 as root failed to load ssh-key (Launchpad#1276348)
• kdesystrayicon.py crashes because of missing environ (Launchpad#1332126)
• OSError if sshfs/encfs is not installed (Launchpad#1316288)
• TypeError in config.py check_config() (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091644)
• unhandled exception in create_last_snapshot_symlink() (Launchpad#1269991)

1.0.34 (2013-12-21)

Uncategorized

• sync/flush all disks before shutdown (Launchpad#1261031)

Fixed

• BIT running as root shutdown after snapshot, regardless of option checked (Launchpad#1261022)

1.0.32 (2013-12-13)

Fixed

• cron scheduled snapshots won’t start with 1.0.30

1.0.30 (2013-12-12)

Uncategorized

• scheduled and manual snapshots use –config
• make configure scripts portable (Launchpad#377429)
• add symlink last_snapshot (Launchpad#787118)
• add option to run rsync with ‘nice’ or ‘ionice’ on remote host (Launchpad#1240301)
• add Shutdown button to shutdown system after snapshot has finished (Launchpad#838742)
• wrap long lines for syslog

Fixed

• udev rule doesn’t finish (Launchpad#1249466)
• multiple errors in PPA build process; reorganize updateversion.sh
• Mate and xfce desktop didn’t show systray icon (Launchpad#658424/comments/31)
• Ubuntu Lucid doesn’t provide SecretServiceKeyring (Launchpad#1243911)
• ‘gksu backintime-gnome’ failed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException

Added

• virtual package backintime-kde for PPA

1.0.28 (2013-10-19)

Removed

• config on ‘apt-get purge’

Added

• more options for configure scripts; update README
• udev schedule (run BIT as soon as the drive is connected)

Fixed

• AttributeError with python-keyring>1.6.1 (Launchpad#1234024)
• TypeError: KDirModel.removeColumns() is a private method in kde4/app.py (Launchpad#1232694)
• sshfs mount disconnect after a while due to some firewalls (add ServerAliveInterval) (https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/235685)
• Ping fails if ICMP is disabled on remote host (Launchpad#1226718)
• KeyError in getgrnam if there is no ‘fuse’ group (Launchpad#1225561)
• anacrontab won’t work with profilename with spaces (Launchpad#1224620)
• NameError in tools.move_snapshots_folder (Launchpad#871466)
• KPassivePopup is not defined (Launchpad#871475)
• ValueError while reading pw-cache PID (https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/235407)

Uncategorized

• add ‘–checksum’ commandline option (Launchpad#886021)
• multi selection for include and exclude list (Launchpad#660753)

1.0.26 (2013-09-07)

Uncategorized

• add feature: keep min free inodes
• roll back commit 836.1.5 (check free-space on ssh remote host): statvfs DOES work over sshfs. But not with quite outdated sshd
• add feature: restore from command line; add option –config
• use ‘ps ax’ to check if ‘backintime –pw-cache’ is still running
• mount after locking, unmount before unlocking in take_snapshot
• redirect logger.error and .warning to stderr; new argument –quiet
• deactivate ‘Save Password’ if no keyring is available
• use Password-cache for user-input too
• handle two Passwords
• add ‘SSH encrypted’: mount / with encfs reverse and sync encrypted with rsync. EXPERIMENTAL!
• add ‘Local encrypted’: mount encfs

Added

• daily anacron schedule
• delete button and ‘list only equal’ in Snapshot dialog; multiSelect in snapshot list
• manpage backintime-config and config-examples
• option –bwlimit for rsync

Fixed

• Restore makes files public during the operation
• Cannot keep modifications to cron (Launchpad#698106)
• cannot stat ‘backintime-kde4-root.desktop.kdesudo’ (Launchpad#696659)
• unreadable dark KDE color schemes (Launchpad#1184920)
• permission denied if remote uid wasn’t the same as local uid

1.0.24 (2013-05-08)

Uncategorized

• hide check_for_canges if full_rsync_mode is checked
• DEFAULT_EXCLUDE system folders with /foo/* so at least the folder itself will backup
• DEFAULT_EXCLUDE /run; exclude MOUNT_ROOT with higher priority and not with DEFAULT_EXCLUDE anymore
• ‘Save Password’ default off to avoid problems with existing profiles
• if restore uid/gid failed try to restore at least gid
• SSH need to store permissions in separate file with “Full rsync mode” because remote user might not be able to store ownership
• switch to ‘find -exec cmd {} +’ (Launchpad#1157639)

Fixed

• ‘CalledProcessError’ object has no attribute ‘strerror’
• quote rsync remote path with spaces
• restore permission failed on “Full rsync mode”
• glib.GError: Unknown internal child: selection
• GtkWarning: Unknown property: GtkLabel.margin-top
• check keyring backend only if password is needed

Changed

• all indent tabs to 4 spaces

1.0.22 (2013-03-26)

Uncategorized

• check free-space on ssh remote host (statvfs didn’t work over sshfs)

Added

• Password storage mode ssh
• “Full rsync mode” (can be faster but …)

Fixed

• “Restore to…” failed due to spaces in directory name (Launchpad#1096319)
• host not found in known_hosts if port != 22 (Launchpad#1130356)
• sshtools.py used not POSIX conform conditionals

1.0.20 (2012-12-15)

Fixed

• restore remote path with spaces using mode ssh returned error

1.0.18 (2012-11-17)

Uncategorized

• Fix packages: man & translations
• Map multiple arguments for gettext so they can be rearranged by translators

Fixed

• Launchpad#1077446
• Launchpad#1078979
• Launchpad#1079479

1.0.16 (2012-11-15)

Uncategorized

• Fix a package dependency problem … this time for good (Launchpad#1077446)

1.0.14 (2012-11-09)

Fixed

• a package dependency problem

1.0.12 (2012-11-08)

Uncategorized

• Add links to: website, documentation, report a bug, answers, faq
• Use libnotify for gnome/kde4 notifications instead of gnome specific libraries
• Add more schedule options: every 30 min, every 2 hours, every 4 hours, every 6 hours & every 12 hours

Fixed

• Launchpad#1059247
• wrong path if restore system root
• glade (xml) files did not translate
• Launchpad#1073867

Added

• generic mount-framework
• mode ‘SSH’ for backups on remote host using ssh protocol.

1.0.10 (2012-03-06)

Added

• “Restore to …” in replacement of copy (with or without drag & drop) because copy don’t restore user/group/rights

1.0.8 (2011-06-18)

Fixed

• Launchpad#723545
• Launchpad#705237
• Launchpad#696663
• Launchpad#671946

1.0.6 (2011-01-02)

Fixed

• Launchpad#676223
• Launchpad#672705

Uncategorized

• Smart remove: configurable options (Launchpad#406765)

1.0.4 (2010-10-28)

Uncategorized

• SettingsDialog: show highly recommended excludes
• Option to use checksum to detect changes (Launchpad#666964)
• Option to select log verbosity (Launchpad#664423)
• Gnome: use gloobus-preview if installed

Fixed

• Launchpad#664783

1.0.2 (2010-10-16)

Uncategorized

• reduce log file (no more duplicate “Compare with…” lines)
• declare backintime-kde4 packages as a replacement of backintime-kde

1.0 (2010-10-16)

Uncategorized

• add ’.dropbox*’ to default exclude patterns (Launchpad#628172)
• add option to take a snapshot at every boot (Launchpad#621810)
• add continue on errors (Launchpad#616299)
• add expert options: copy unsafe links & copy links
• “user-callback” replace “user.callback” and receive profile information
• documentation: on-line only (easier to maintain)
• merge with: lp:~dave2010/backintime/minor-edits
• merge with: lp:~mcfonty/backintime/unique-snapshots-view
• reduce memory usage during compare with previous snapshot process
• custom backup hour (for daily backups or mode): Launchpad#507451
• smart remove was slightly changed (Launchpad#502435)
• make backup on restore optional
• fix bug that could cause “ghost” folders in snapshots (LP: 406092)
• fix bug that converted / into // (Launchpad#455149)
• remove “schedule per included directory” (profiles do that) (+ bug Launchpad#412470)
• fig bug: Launchpad#489380
• update Slovak translation (Tomáš Vadina kyberdev@gmail.com)
• multiple profiles support
• GNOME: fix notification
• backintime snapshot folder is restructured to ../backintime/machine/user/profile_id/
• added a desktop file for kdesu and a test if kdesu or kdesudo should be used (Launchpad#389988)
• added expert option to disable snapshots when on battery (Launchpad#388178)
• fix bug handling big files by the GNOME GUI (Launchpad#409130)
• fix bug in handling of & characters by GNOME GUI (Launchpad#415848)
• fix a security bug in chmods before snapshot removal (Launchpad#419774)
• snapshots are stored entirely read-only (Launchpad#386275)
• fix exclude patterns in KDE4 (Launchpad#432537)
• fix opening german files with external applications in KDE (Launchpad#404652)
• changed default exclude patterns to caches, thumbnails, trashbins, and backups (Launchpad#422132)
• write access to snapshot folder is checked & change to snapshot version 2 (Launchpad#423086)
• fix small bugs (a.o. Launchpad#474307)
• Used a more standard crontab syntax (Launchpad#409783)
• Stop the “Over zealous removal of crontab entries” (Launchpad#451811)

Fixed

• xattr
• Launchpad#588841
• Launchpad#588215
• Launchpad#588393
• Launchpad#426400
• Launchpad#575022
• Launchpad#571894
• Launchpad#553441
• Launchpad#550765
• Launchpad#507246
• Launchpad#538855
• Launchpad#386230
• Launchpad#527039
• Launchpad#520956
• Launchpad#520930
• Launchpad#521223
• Launchpad#516066
• Launchpad#512813
• Launchpad#503859
• Launchpad#501285
• Launchpad#493558
• Launchpad#441628
• Launchpad#489319
• Launchpad#447841
• Launchpad#412695

Added

• error log and error log view dialog (Gnome & KDE4)
• ionice support for user/cron backup process
• the possibility to include other snapshot folders within a profile, it can only read those, there is not a GUI implementation yet
• a tag suffix to the snapshot_id, to avoid double snapshot_ids

0.9.26 (2009-05-19)

Uncategorized

• update translations from Launchpad
• Fix a bug in smart-remove algorithm (Launchpad#376104)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• use only ‘folder’ term (more consistent with GNOME/KDE)
• add ‘expert option’: enable/disable nice for cron jobs
• GNOME & KDE4: refresh snapshots button force files view to update too
• you can include a backup parent directory (backup directory will auto-exclude itself)

Fixed

• Launchpad#374477
• Launchpad#375113
• some small bugs

Added

• ‘–no-check’ option to configure scripts

0.9.24 (2009-05-07)

Uncategorized

• update translations
• KDE4: fix python string <=> QString problems
• KDE4 FilesView/SnapshotsDialog: ctrl-click just select (don’t execute)
• KDE4: fix crush after “take snapshot” process (Launchpad#366241)
• store basic permission in a special file so it can restore them correctly (event from NTFS)
• implement Gnome/KDE4 systray icons and user.callback as plugins
• reorganize code: common/GNOME/KDE4
• GNOME: break the big glade file in multiple file
• backintime is no longer aware of ‘backintime-gnome’ and ‘backintime-kde4’

Added

• config version

0.9.22.1 (2009-04-27)

Fixed

• French translation

0.9.22 (2009-04-24)

Uncategorized

• update translations from Launchpad
• KDE4: fix some translation problems
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• create directory now use python os.makedirs (replace use of mkdir command)
• KDE4: fix a crush related to QString - python string conversion
• GNOME & KDE4 SettingsDialog: if schedule automatic backups per directory is set, global schedule is hidden
• GNOME FilesView: thread “*~” files (backup files) as hidden files
• GNOME: use gtk-preferences icon for SettingsDialog (replace gtk-execute icon)
• expert option: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/backintime/user.callback (if exists) is called a different steps
• add more command line options: –snapshots-list, –snapshots-list-path, –last-snapshot, –last-snapshot-path
• follow FreeDesktop directories specs:
  
• new install system: use more common steps (./configure; make; sudo make install)

Removed

• –safe-links for save/restore (this means copy symlinks as symlinks)

0.9.20 (2009-04-06)

Uncategorized

• smart remove: fix an important bug and make it more verbose in syslog
• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)

0.9.18 (2009-04-02)

Uncategorized

• update translations from Launchpad
• update Slovak translation (Tomáš Vadina kyberdev@gmail.com)
• update French translation (Michel Corps mahikeulbody@gmail.com)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• GNOME bugfix: fix a crush in files view for files with special characters (ex: “a%20b”)
• GNOME SettingsDialog bugfix: if snapshots path is a new created folder, snapshots navigation (files view) don’t work
• update doc
• GNOME & KDE4 MainWindow: Rename “Places” list with “Snapshots”
• GNOME SettingsDialog bugfix: modify something, then press cancel. If you reopen the dialog it show wrong values (the ones before cancel)
• GNOME & KDE4: add root mode menu entries (use gksu for gnome and kdesudo for kde)
• GNOME & KDE4: MainWindow - Files view: if the current directory don’t exists in current snapshot display a message
• SettingDialog: add an expert option to enable to schedule automatic backups per directory
• SettingDialog: schedule automatic backups - if the application can’t find crontab it show an error
• SettingDialog: if the application can’t write in snapshots directory there should be an error message
• GNOME & KDE4: rework settings dialog
• SettingDialog: add an option to enable/disable notifications

Added

• Polish translation (Paweł Hołuj pholuj@gmail.com)
• cron in common package dependencies

0.9.16.1 (2009-03-16)

Fixed

• a bug/crush for French version

0.9.16 (2009-03-13)

Uncategorized

• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• update Swedish translation (Niklas Grahn terra.unknown@yahoo.com)
• update French translation (Michel Corps mahikeulbody@gmail.com)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• update Slovenian translation (Vanja Cvelbar cvelbar@gmail.com)
• don’t show the snapshot that is being taken in snapshots list
• GNOME & KDE4: when the application starts and snapshots directory don’t exists show a messagebox
• give more information for ‘take snapshot’ progress (to prove that is not blocked)
• MainWindow: rename ‘Timeline’ column with ‘Snapshots’
• when it tries to take a snapshot if the snapshots directory don’t exists
  
• GNOME & KDE4: add notify if the snapshots directory don’t exists
• KDE4: rework MainWindow

Added

• Slovak translation (Tomáš Vadina kyberdev@gmail.com)

0.9.14 (2009-03-05)

Uncategorized

• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• update Swedish translation (Niklas Grahn terra.unknown@yahoo.com)
• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• update French translation (Michel Corps mahikeulbody@gmail.com)
• GNOME & KDE4: rework MainWindow
• GNOME & KDE4: rework SettingsDialog
• GNOME & KDE4: add “smart” remove

0.9.12 (2009-02-28)

Fixed

• now if you include “.abc” folder and exclude “.*“,”.abc” will be saved in the snapshot
• bookmarks with special characters

Uncategorized

• KDE4: add help

Added

• Slovenian translation (Vanja Cvelbar cvelbar@gmail.com)

0.9.10 (2009-02-24)

Added

• Swedish translation (Niklas Grahn terra.unknown@yahoo.com)

Uncategorized

• KDE4: drop and drop from backintime files view to any file manager

Fixed

• fix a segfault when running from cron

0.9.8 (2009-02-20)

Uncategorized

• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• unsafe links are ignored (that means that a link to a file/directory outside of include directories are ignored)
• KDE4: add copy to clipboard
• KDE4: sort files by name, size or date
• cron 5/10 minutes: replace multiple lines with a single crontab line using divide (/5 or /10)
• cron: when called from cron redirect output (stdout & stderr) to /dev/null

Fixed

• unable to restore files that contains space char in their name

0.9.6 (2009-02-09)

Uncategorized

• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• GNOME: update docbook
• KDE4: add snapshots dialog
• GNOME & KDE4: add update snapshots button
• GNOME: handle special folders icons (home, desktop)

0.9.4 (2009-01-30)

Uncategorized

• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• gnome: better handling of ‘take snapshot’ status icon
• KDE4 (>= 4.1): first version (not finished)
• update man

0.9.2 (2009-01-16)

Uncategorized

• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• replace diff with rsync to check if a new snapshot is needed
• code cleanup

Fixed

• if you add “/a” in include directories and “/a/b” in exclude patterns, “/a/b*” items
• it does not include “.*” items even if they are not excluded

Added

• show hidden & backup files toggle button for files view

0.9 (2009-01-09)

Uncategorized

• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)
• make deb packages more debian friendly (thanks to Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• better separation between common and gnome specific files and
  
• code cleanup

Fixed

• when you open snapshots dialog for the second time ( or more ) and you make a diff

0.8.20 (2008-12-22)

Fixed

• sorting files/directories by name is now case insensitive

Uncategorized

• getmessages.sh: ignore “gtk-” items (this are gtk stock item ids and should not be changed)

0.8.18 (2008-12-17)

Uncategorized

• update man/docbook

Added

• sort columns in MainWindow/FileView (by name, by size or by date) and SnapshotsDialog (by date)

Fixed

• German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)

0.8.16 (2008-12-11)

Uncategorized

• add Drag & Drop from MainWindow: FileView/SnapshotsDialog to Nautilus
• update German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)

0.8.14 (2008-12-07)

Added

• more command line parameters ( –version, –snapshots, –help )

Fixed

• a crush for getting info on dead symbolic links

Uncategorized

• when taking a new backup based on the previous one don’t copy the previous extra info (ex: name)
• copy unsafe links when taking a snapshot

0.8.12 (2008-12-01)

Added

• German translation (Michael Wiedmann mw@miwie.in-berlin.de)
• SnapshotNameDialog
• Name/Remove snapshot in main toolbar

Changed

• the way it detects if the mainwindow is the active window (no dialogs)

Uncategorized

• toolbars: show icons only
• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)

0.8.10 (2008-11-22)

Uncategorized

• SnapshotsDialog: add right-click popup-menu and a toolbar with copy & restore buttons
• use a more robust backup lock file
• log using syslog
• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)

Fixed

• a small bug in copy to clipboard

0.8.8 (2008-11-19)

Uncategorized

• SnapshotsDialog: add diff
• update Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)

0.8.6 (2008-11-17)

Fixed

• change backup path crush

Added

• SnapshotsDialog

0.8.2 (2008-11-14)

Uncategorized

• add right-click menu in files list: open (using gnome-open), copy (you can paste in Nautilus), restore (for snapshots only)

Added

• Copy toolbar button for files list

0.8.1 (2008-11-10)

Added

• every 5/10 minutes automatic backup

0.8 (2008-11-07)

Uncategorized

• don’t show backup files (*~)
• makedeb.sh: make a single package with all languages included
• install.sh: install all languages
• the application can be started with a ‘path’ to a folder or file as command line parameter
• when the application start, if it is already running pass its command line to the first instance (this allow a basic integration with file-managers - see README)

Added

• backup files to default exclude patterns (*~)
• English manual (man)
• English help (docbook)
• help button in main toolbar

Fixed

• when the application was started a second time it raise the first application’s window but not always focused

0.7.4 (2008-11-03)

Uncategorized

• if there is already a GUI instance running raise it

Added

• Spanish translation (Francisco Manuel García Claramonte franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es)

0.7.2 (2008-10-28)

Uncategorized

• better integration with gnome icons (use mime-types)
• remember last path
• capitalize month in timeline (bug in french translation)

0.7 (2008-10-22)

Fixed

• cron segfault
• a crush when launched the very first time (not configured)

Uncategorized

• multi-lingual support

Added

• French translation

0.6.4 (2008-10-20)

Removed

• About & Settings dialogs from the pager

Uncategorized

• allow only one instance of the application

0.6.2 (2008-10-16)

Uncategorized

• remember window position & size

0.6 (2008-10-13)

Uncategorized

• when it make a snapshot it display an icon in systray area
• the background color for group items in timeline and places reflect more
• during restore only restore button is grayed ( even if everything is blocked )

0.5.1 (2008-10-10)

Added

• size & date columns in files view

Changed

• some texts

0.5 (2008-10-03)

Uncategorized

• This is the first release.