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After a lot of hard work on existing and new features, packaging, and testing, finally the stable release for the 0.2 series of NSsbackup is out. Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!

This stable release with version 0.2.0 fixes many, many bugs and is ready for daily use. See the changelog on the download page for more information.

Known issues - There are a few known issues in NSsbackup 0.2.0:

* No Help available on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (due to use of Mallard)
* No notifications when running scheduled backups on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
* Paths containing '=' and ',' are troublesome

  * [Fix] LP Bug #573733: nssbackup does not prevent itself from running in
          parallel.
  * [Fix] LP Bug #526544: was re-opened, missing newline at eof
  * [FIX] LP Bug #577296: Crash, with "%d format: a number is required, not str"
  * [Fix] LP Bug #258542 from Mascha's branch: adding a $ add the end of new
          file types; old file type regexps must be edited by hand to add the $;
          prior defined file types are handled as "normal" regular expression,
          display file type regular expressions also under regular expression
          tab to make this clear
  * [Fix] regression of LP #146618: The file size limitation should not be a
          recommendation
  * [Fix] regression: avoid backup of circular symlinks in the case of link
          dereferencing (follow symlinks)
  * [Fix] implemented a work-around to enable notifications when running as
          root from cron/anacron
  * [Fix] avoid merge of snapshots when purging snapshots by only removing
          stand-alone snapshots
  * [Fix] minor changes in file collection codes (counting symlinks as
          included files)
  * [Fix] execution of tar within empty environment; this avoids manipulation
          of tar options by leaked in environment variables and fixes a
          performance bug related to non-englisch languages (LANG) and tar
          (tar was much (6x) slower when running localized)
  * [Fix] make uninstall and removal of debian package did not removed written
          cron entries
  * [Fix] when starting another instance of nssbackupd or GUI tools previous
          log files were overwritten (introduces rotating log file handling)
  * [Fix] skip excluded paths when merging snar files (see also LP #567965)
  * [Fix] issues with non-translated strings due to incorrect import order
          of modules
  * [Fix] typos and minor issues with translatable strings corrected
  * [Fix] avoid system locks when running scheduled backups by decreasing
          priority of backup process (nice/ionice)
  * [Fix] disable timeout (Signal ALARM) after exception handling
  * [Change] Logarithmic purge disabled since it still has issues
  * [Enhancement] improvements to the release script
  * [Enhancement] improved handling of tar output
  * [Enhancement] added support for compressed log files
  * [Enhancement] Exclude process pid files as recommendation
  * [Enhancement] added Regex for exclusion of backup files '*~' to the default
                  recommendations
  * [Enhancement] create a log directory exclusively for nssbackup as default
                  recommendation in order not to mess up /var/log (no changes
                  are made on existing configurations)
  * Launchpad translations merged