1.6.2 (2024-11-26)
Restic 1.6.2 brings a focus on quality of life and stability bug fixes as well as a new version of restic bumping the default version to 0.17.3.
Notable changes are:
- Significant improvements to the Backrest windows installer have been made to reduce install friction and eliminating the need to grant administrative privileges (by installing to a user owned folder).
- PowerShell commands are much better supported on Windows.
- On all platforms, Backrest will now use the system install of restic if it matches the required version (currently 0.17.3) -- backrest will only install and manage its own version of restic if the system version is unsupported.
- On MacOS the "restic" binary is now always located at
~/.local/share/backrest/resticmaking it easier to grant full disk access and other permissions. - Crash on arm32 devices affecting Raspberry Pi Zero users is fixed.
- Add repo and add plan views now correctly populate default schedules and retention policies that make sense for easier first time setup.
Bug Fixes
- allow 'run command' tasks to proceed in parallel to other repo operations (3397a01)
- allow for deleting individual operations from the list view (aa39ead)
- better defaults in add repo / add plan views (4d7be23)
- crash on arm32 device due to bad libc dependency version for sqlite driver (#559) (e60a4fb)
- garbage collection with more sensible limits grouped by plan/repo (#555) (492beb2)
- improve memory pressure from getlogs (592e4cf)
- improve windows installer and relocate backrest on Windows to %localappdata%\programs (#568) (00b0c3e)
- make cancel button more visible for a running operation (51a6683)
- set etag header to cache webUI source (0642f4b)
- substantially improve windows installer experience (#578) (74eb869)
- tray app infers UI port from BACKREST_PORT or --bind-address if available (c810d27)
- update resticinstaller to use the same binary name across versions and to use system restic install when possible (5fea5fd)
- use command mode when executing powershell scripts on windows (#569) (57f9aeb)
- webui may duplicate elements in a multi-instance repo (bf77bab)