Re: "Virtual" version 2.4 (and probably 2.6, potentially 2.8)

EricZolf <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Oct 2023 09:02:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Organization rdiff-backup.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
BTW, the empty changelog for the weekly release is normal, as it is the 
changelog since the last release, so 2.4.0, so nothing...

KR, Eric

On 01/10/2023 18:54, EricZolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if someone would pay attention, they would have noticed that I just 
> pushed a tag version v2.4.0 and updated accordingly the changelog.
> 
> Don't be surprised or confused. As I wrote in a previous e-mail, I don't 
> plan to release it, but it just shows that the code has evolved compared 
> to the latest 2.2.6 version.
> 
> Tonight's weekly release [0] will accordingly be released without the 
> old CLI (check the changelog for details), and it would be nice if some 
> of you could test it making sure that nothing is broken, after this 
> rather important change [1]. But check it only tomorrow!
> 
> It'll take probably a bit longer but I'm currently removing everything 
> related to API 200 / rdiff-backup 2.0.x, and will probably tag it with 
> version 2.6 (also unreleased), and then it would again be good to have 
> people test that nothing broke in API 201, e.g. against version 2.2.
> 
> We could wait until 3.0 is out to test, but I would prefer to go step by 
> step and make sure nothing breaks before too many changes are made to 
> know where the issue appeared.
> 
> Thanks, Eric
> 
> [0] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases/tag/weekly
> [1] 32 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 1708 deletions(-)
>