This is the first stable release of the Duplicati 2.x codebase!

Thanks to the amazing Duplicati community who continue to contribute in force.

Important changes from 2.0.8.1

• Updated to .NET8 with OS specific builds
• Using Kestrel as the API/UI server
• Mandatory password and new authentication scheme for server
• Settings database version updated to v8
• Backup database updated to v13
• Automatic updating not supported

This update builds on beta 2.1.0.3 with only a minor tweak to WebDAV timeouts.

High-level view of changes from beta 2.0.8.1

• Updated to .NET8 and Kestrel/ASP.NET Core
• Updated the authentication system
• Added support for encrypting database fields
• Fixed a number of stability issues
• Added support for remote control
• Added secret providers
• Updated blocksize to 1MiB by default
• Removed RC4 database encryption (auto-decrypt)
• Added read-write timeout to most backends