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Since the last version release in January, we have introduced many major features and changes to Rdiffweb. Thanks to the IT department of Bern University of Applied Sciences who choose Rdiffweb to be part of their backup solution for the students.
Many features that were planned are now a reality !
Notably, support for alternate database like PostgreSQL, a complete new stack to run background job for long running tasks and finally a new documentation.
In the following weeks will publish new articles for each major changes that were introduced in this version.
Here the complete list of changes
Debian package:
Add rdiff-backup as dependencies to comply with Debian packaging rules
Multiple other fixed to control files
Use debhelper-compat (= 13)
Run test during packaging
Create default folder /var/run/rdiffweb/sessions to store user session
Use ConfigArgPare for configuration to support configuration file, environment variables and arguments to configure rdiffweb #114
Fix cache in localization module
Add ldap-add-default-role and ldap-add-default-userroot option to define default value for role and user root when creating user from LDAP #125
Support PostgreSQL database by replacing our storage layer by SQLAlchemy #126
Fix to retrieve user quota only for valid user_root #135
Add option disable-ssh-keys to disable SSH Key management
Use absolute URL everywhere
Add support for X-Forward-For, X-Forward-proto and other reverse proxy header when generating absolute URL
Drop Debian Strech support
Implement a new background scheduler using apscheduler #82
Use background job to send email notification to avoid blocking web page loading #47
Use background job to delete repository to avoid blocking web page loading #48
Allow deleting a specific file or folder from the history using rdiff-backup-delete #128
Improve support for session-dir #131
Add option admin-password to define administrator password for better security
Improve performance of repository browsing
Add a new view to display logs of a specific repository
Allow downloading the log
Define a default limit to graph statistics to make it display faster
Fix get-quota-cmd option to properly return a value