Re: dar release 2.6.11 is available

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Hi,

as you guessed this was not spam! I don't know how sourceforge got to
add this stupid [SPAM] flag in this previous email!

Anyway, for this message to bring some useful information here is the
current development status for dar/libdar:

Implemented and tested features for releases 2.7.0:
- - lz4 compression support,
- - zstd compression support,
- - multi-thread compression/decompression support for all compression
algorithms with quite decent gain in time,
- - multi-thread ciphering/deciphering support with also good performance
gain,
- - dar now accepts full slice name (when a shell completes a filenames),
- - increasing time precision to nanosecond (feature currently under test)

...and some other less visible features to the users, but which should
bring some performance improvement.

What remains in the pipe for 2.7.0:
- - selectable compression algorithm and compression level depending on
a filename within the same archive (under evaluation of feasibility),
- - providing a snap packaging (evaluation of feasibility has to be done
first),
- - cleaning up old API backward compatibility code,

...and maybe some other ones, if my free time allows it.


The target pre-release date is the end of this year for
a official 2.7.0 release in the few first months of 2021.

Cheers,
Denis

On 05/09/2020 13:42, Denis Corbin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
> source package and windows binary for release 2.6.11 are available
> at:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.6.11/
>
> As an alternative to Sourceforge you can fetch source and windows
> binary packages but also fully featured dar_static binaries for
> Linux/x86 from the _low bandwidth_ ftp and http server at:
>
> ftp://ftp.dm3c.org/dar.linux.free.fr/Releases http://dar.dm3c.org/
>
> Package signatures are available at:
>
> http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/v2.6.11
>
> Author's keys are available on public key servers and on dar
> website:
>
> http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/authentification.html
>
> Release 2.6.11 brings several bug fixes which are detailed in the
> extract of the Changelog below.
>
> Thanks to Volker Wysk for feedback
>
> Cheers, Denis Corbin
>
> ------- from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 - fixing bug in dar_manager libdar
> part, met when the two oldest entries for a file are recorded as
> unchanged (differential backup). - fixed typo in dar_manager man
> page - updated lax mode to ignore encryption flag found in header
> and trailer - fixed two opposite bugs in strong encryption code
> that annihilated each other, by chance - fixing bug met when
> merging an archive an re-compressing the data with another
> algorithm that gives a less good result, this condition lead the
> merging operation to fail reporting a CRC mismatch - improving
> archive header code to cope with unknown flags
>
>

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