Server 2.4.8 beta/Client 2.4.7 beta

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Major changes with server 2.4.x beta

• IPv6 support (sponsored by Tuxis Internet Engineering )
• ZSTD transport compression
• Parallel hashing improvements

Changes with server 2.4.8 beta

• Fix sparse file patch loading if sparse file ends with a sparse extent at a multiple of 512KB and loading the data is faster than sending hash data
• Fix GCC build issues
• Always add root client access token to db (fixes file/restore access after Linux client download)
• Cleanup old client access tokens
• Fix alert nagging
• Start backup immediately if client requests it
• Discover internet clients faster
• Send backup failed notification to client
• Updated translations; Add new Chinese translator (thanks goes to Johnny Xing)
• Use “rm -f” instead of plain “rm” in proposed client install command to fix confirmation of temporary file removal on e.g. CentOS

Changes with server 2.4.7 beta

• Fix FreeBSD build
• Fix compilation with older OpenSSL versions
• Check for AlignedAllocate in crypto++ lib/Detect if CRYPTOPP_DISABLE_ASM should be set in configure step
• Obtain backup/restore privileges on Windows to read symlinks (Fixes file restores with symlinks from Windows servers)
• Improve error handling if e.g. (ipv6) bind() call fails

Changes with server 2.4.6 beta

• Fix alert nag interval printing
• Get hyper-v image snapshot error faster
• Properly escape clientsubname in SIGNATURE query

Changes with server 2.4.5 beta

• Fix file download queuing error handling
• Fix recursive directory deletion on Linux/FreeBSD
• Read actual endpoint address from connection when connecting from configurable IP addresses
• Submit internet server proxy setting (web interface)
• Add internet server proxy settings to client added screen
• Make default backup folder configurable via preprocessor define
• Fix recursive directory deletion error checking

Changes with server 2.4.4 beta

• Make syncfs() error fail file backups
• Try using BTRFS_IOC_SYNC (on Linux) before falling back to syncfs
• Add scope to file client addr hints (IPv6)
• Fix client addr update for ipv6

Changes with server 2.4.3 beta

• Use heap for recursion when deleting non-empty directory
• Make ipv6 optional per default

Changes with server 2.4.2 beta

• Fix FreeBSD compile issue

Changes with server 2.4.1 beta

• Fix polling with ipv6 socket on Linux in ServiceAcceptor
• Fix report script cache reload
• Fixup backup folder location correctly (trailing slash)
• Fix IPv6 on FreeBSD (not compile tested yet)

Changes with server 2.4.0 beta

• Allow setting group id while adding new clients
• Postpone metadata application of files that are in queue before reordered downloads (because of missing file in previous backup)
• Allow ldap admin users access to all backups
• Set file backup to incomplete during startup recovery
• New setting to make backup dirs optional per default
• Cleanup one image backup of each client at a time when freeing space (like with file backups)
• Catch and log info about C++ exceptions
• Improve parallel hash logging and properly set eof when finished
• Do not retry getting parallel hash after error
• Check if VHD file was opened successfully before using it (Fixes Windows crash)

Major changes with client 2.4.x beta

• IPv6 support (sponsored by Tuxis Internet Engineering )
• ZSTD transport compression
• HTTPS proxy support (only with SChannel on Windows for now)
• Parallel hashing improvements
• Image backup performance improvement: Read-ahead file system in larger blocks

Changes with client 2.4.7 beta

• Allow client to start backup, then exit after it completed successfully/timeout
• Suspend exclude patterns which would completely remove a selected backup path
• Check OpenSSL version by checking if function is present
• Add warning message about missing OpenSSL support during configure
• Wait for parallel hash thread to finish before deleting it
• Add new Chinese translator (thanks goes to Johnny Xing)
• GUI: Use negative values for image backup being disabled (like server)

Changes with client 2.4.6 beta

• Fix FreeBSD build
• Fix compilation with older OpenSSL versions
• Exclude efivarfs
• Check for AlignedAllocate in crypto++ lib/Detect if CRYPTOPP_DISABLE_ASM should be set in configure step
• Handle lsb-base package not being present in Linux installer (such as in the debian-slim docker packages)
• Improve error handling if e.g. (ipv6) bind() call fails
• Log more restore errors to server
• Re-read blocks with errors with smaller readahead buffer size to narrow down the error location more during scrub

Changes with client 2.4.5 beta

• Fix HTTP(S) proxy authorization
• Add blockalign tool
• Compile Windows client GUI with wxWidgets 3.1
• DPI scale a few dialog sizes
• Fix OpenSSL linkage in binary Linux client
• Fix certificate location search in binary Linux client
• Allow “ALL” as special file backup path that backups all volumes

Changes with client 2.4.4 beta

• Fix evaluation order bug in file backup indexing

Changes with client 2.4.3 beta

• Fix phash skipping of small files
• Fix ARM32 CPU flags
• Fix wait-for-backend pausing
• Option to use c-ares for DNS resolution and use it for android linux client builds
• Fix compression if zstd is not available
• Fix crypto++ crashes in Android builds
• Fix first connection to Internet server not being usable
• Fix https prefix removal when connecting via https proxy
• Add OpenSSL support to client

Changes with client 2.4.2 beta

• Added Japanese translation (by Ikeguchi Naoki)
• Correctly close ipv6 udp socket on error/restart
• Increase number of read ahead block buffers, because it might read up to 64 of them simultaneously in the worst case causing image backups to hang
• Added logging about server being rejected
• Build Linux binaries with Android NDK instead of ELLCC
• Try connecting to all DNS lookup results in order (A and AAA records)
• Use heap instead of stack for file indexing recursion (reduces virtual memory used because the index thread stack size is now normal again)
• Flag (disabled by default) to include all symbolic links if includes are specified (changes default to not always include symbolic links to directories)
• Keep computername when resetting settings if new computername is empty

Changes with client 2.4.1 beta

• Fix FreeBSD compile issue
• Read-ahead file system in larger blocks during image backups
• Make ipv6 optional per default
• Return ipv6 zone in lookup and use it to connect

Changes with client 2.4.0 beta

• Reset reconnect tries if more than 30min between reconnects
• Only set reconnect_tries to 50 if it wasn’t set higher previously
• Tool to read volume and write zeros to blocks which cannot be read
• Set socket window size to 3MiB send buffer and 128KiB recv buffer for client on Windows
• Fix incr image bit clashing with full file backup bit
• Remove result writing via pipe fixing some async indexing hang-ups
• Fix search for snapshot if VSS path is the root of a volume
• Fix parallel hashing with VSS components
• Hard code not following default wine z: symlink to root of fs on non-Windows
• Functionality to interrupt parallel hash loading threads on clients
• Don’t parallel hash files smaller than 2048 bytes
• Add to db if there is a sub-directory because that one can be deleted and should then be removed from the db (Linux/MacOS)
• Do not quit indexing with “no backup dirs” if components are selected for backup

Changes with Restore CD 2.3.0 beta

• Built with and based on Debian 10/buster, Linux kernel 4.19.x
• Live-build config now at https://github.com/uroni/urbackup_restore_cd

Changes with Restore CD 2.2.2 beta

• Fix GPT restore with restore disk being (slightly) smaller

Upgrade process

As always: Replace the executables (via the installers) and the database of the server/client will be updated on first running it.

Place the files from the update directory into C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup or /var/urbackup to auto-update clients. Disable Download client from update server in the server settings to prevent the server from downloading the current version.

On Linux e.g. with this update script: https://github.com/ptempier/get_urbackupclient/blob/master/updateclient.sh

Downgrade process (server)

Stop the UrBackup server, restore C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup or /var/urbackup from a backup before upgrade and then install the previous version over the beta release.

Downloads

• Server: https://ssl.webpack.de/beta.urbackup.org/Server/2.4.8%20beta
• Client: https://ssl.webpack.de/beta.urbackup.org/Client/2.4.7%20beta
• Restore CD: https://www.urbackup.org/downloads/Restore/urbackup_restore_2.3.0.iso (amd64)

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