Back In Time - Second Release Candidate (1.5.4-rc2)

Hello, I kindly ask if you would publish this news item to your micro 
news service.

Hello,
As member of the upstream maintenance team of Back In Time [1] project, 
please allow me to announce the second release candidate [2] preparing 
for version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie.

     https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2

Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems. Feel free 
to use our Mastodon account @[email protected] [3].

- EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and 
is schedule for removal in 2026 [4].
- The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into 
"Remove & Retention", with improvements to the user manual section [5]. 
Its behavior remains unchanged.
- An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
- Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced state 
file.
- License and copyright information is now provided in machine-readable 
SPDX format, following the REUSE standard [6].

See CHANGELOG [7] for more details.

Regards,
Christian Buhtz

[1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
[2] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2>
[3] -- <https://fosstodon.org/@backintime>
[4] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1734>
[5] -- 
<https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/remove_retention.html>
[6] -- <https://reuse.software/>
[7] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/CHANGES>