dar release 2.4.8 is available

Denis Corbin <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:18:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hi,

source packages and windows binary for release 2.4.8 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.4.8/

signatures are available at:

   http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/v2.4.8

Release 2.4.8 brings several bug fixes which are detailed in the extract
of the Changelog below.

Thanks to Mario for help investigating the reason of strange messages
reported by libdar when virtual memory is exhausted. Thanks to
"Fredquerty2003" (aka Richard) and Jeremy Faith for bugs report, and to
Mario Metzler for bug report and help resolving the reported bug. Last,
thanks again to Philippe Naudin this time for improvement suggestion.

Cheers,
Denis Corbin

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from 2.4.7 to 2.4.8
- - documentation fixes and updates
- - improved database listing efficiency
- - reduced memory usage of the caching layer in libdar
- - fixed self reported bug caused by memory allocation failure
- - fixed a SIGSEGV caused by double free in dar_xform when syntax
  error is met on command-line
- - dar_xform was not able to properly transform archive generated by dar
  older than release 2.4.0
- - fixed bug that lead dar be unable to remove a directory at
  restoration time
- - replaced old remaining "bcopy" occurrence by a call to memcpy
- - fixed compilation warning under ArchLinux
- - fixed crash met while creating a backup with on-fly isolation
- - fixed libdar behavior when reading a strongly corrupted encrypted
  archive




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