dar release 2.5.3 is available

Denis Corbin <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:30:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.announce
Organization http://dar.linux.free.fr/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hi,

source package and windows binary for release 2.5.3 are available at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.5.3/

signatures are available at:

   http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/v2.5.3

Release 2.5.3 brings several bug fixes and improvements which are
detailed in the extract of the Changelog below.

Thanks to Neil Darlow for feedback. Thanks to xloem at sourceforge for
bugs report, troubleshooting and fixes, great job! Thanks to xloem
again for the proposed patches. Thanks to Matteo Sasso for bug report.
Thanks to Gulikoza for improvement proposal and patch.

Cheers,
Denis Corbin

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from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3
- - Fixing a 2.5.x build issue met when a 2.4.x libdar library is already
  installed in an FreeBSD system.
- - Improving message and behavior of libdar in lax mod when a truncated
  archive is read
- - Fixing self reported bug at "tronconneuse.cpp line 561" met while
  reading truncated/corrupted archive
- - Fixed not closed filedescriptors, met when saving a filesystem that
  has not ExtX FSA available
- - Fixing configure script to be more robust in front of system where
  gpgme.h is installed in a non standard path and user did not provide
  coherent CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS before calling ./configure
- - Displaying CRC values when listing isolated catalog as XML output
- - Fixing compilation issue when system does not provide strerror_r()
  call
- - Avoiding warning about FSA absence when fsa-scope is set to "none"
- - Adding --disable-fadvise option to configure script for those that
  want back full pressure from dar on the system cache (same behavior
  as 2.4.x)
- - Fixing bug, fadvise() called a wrong time making it having no effect
- - updating FAQ about comparative performance from 2.4.x to 2.5.x
- - optimization: reduced the number of call to dup() at libdar startup
- - improvement: printing file type on verbose output
- - new feature: added %t macro reflecting the inode type in dar's
  --backup-hook-execute option




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