Release Candidate: Back In Time 1.5.1 (July 27, 2024)

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Summary

This version fixes a bug from the previous version. During ping tests of the SSH server, the port of the SSH proxy was used instead of the target SSH server. Thank you to Johannes (@hannes101) for reporting this.

Installation

This release contains the source code only but no distro packages. To install the new release from the source code please follow our build & installation instructions.

Known major issues open

• qt_probing.py may hang with high CPU usage when running Back In Time as root via cron (#1592)
• File permissions handling and therefore possible non-differential backups (#988 & #994)

Changes

• Fix: Use correct port to ping SSH Proxy (Issue with new SSH proxy settings overwriting the default port #1815)