Amanda 2.5.1 released

RPMs and source tar ball are available for following platforms at
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html

- Red Hat Enterprise server 4,
- Red Hat Enterprise server 3
- Suse Linux Enterprise 9,
- Suse Linux Enterprise 10,
- Open Suse 10.0,
- Fedora Core 3,
- Fedora Core 4,

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Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
2.5.1.   It is a significant milestone in Amanda project.

Source tar ball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda
or http://www.amanda.org

If you find bugs or have feature requests, please submit a bug report on
sourceforge in the group v2.5.1.

If you successfully use 2.5.1,  please post your success reports to
http://forums.zmanda.com.

For list of 2.5.1 features and changes and documentation, see
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/2.5.1_features

The list of new features in 2.5.1 beta releases:

    * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
    * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
    * Open SSL encryption support
    * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
    * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
authentication methods.
    * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
(same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
    * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
    * Amanda command changes
          o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
          o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape
writable test. Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
          o -o command option to override Amanda configuration.
Seeamanda man page for details.
          o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when
aentry is not found in the configuration file.
    * Amanda configuration file changes
          o amanda.conf changes:
                + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
                + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
                + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
backup runs in a calendar day.
                + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
                + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
          o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
configuration.
                + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
          o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
          o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.