This is our fist major public release !

In this release we have a new remote upgrade feature, and improved the GUI experience.
We also now ship pre-built executables for

• Linux amd64 (glibc >= 2.17)
• Linux arm and arm64 (glibc >= 2.24).
• Windows x64 (Windows >= 10)
• Windows x86 (Windows >= 7)

Windows pre-built executables are signed with an EV certificate.

Features

• Added a full auto-upgrade solution:
  • Aupgrade client integrated into NPBackup, that can be called manually via --auto-upgrade or automatically run every n backups
  • Upgrade server which servers files and their metadata
  • Upgrade server now fetches the real client IP if behind a proxy
  • Upgrade server systemd service file example
  • Support for --config-file parameter in upgrade_server
• Added a gui to create a scheduled task under Windows
• Added a gui to configure backup admin password (was compile time setting before)
• Made windows cloud file filter optional (enabled by default)
• Add variable substitution in configuration
• Add machine identification in configuration
• Add variable ${RANDOM}[n] to config file in order to distinguish non unique hostnames
• Make backup state and upgrade state messages more coherent
• Auto minimize console window when run in GUI mode to not distract end user
• Trigger GUI refresh after configuration changes
• Main program now loads directly after first time GUI setup
• A popup is now shown on non-readable repos
• Highly optimize tree window creation times (x3.5) by replacing dateutil.parser.parse()
• Add --gui-status parameter and more GUI related info
• Added messages when no tcl/tk exists in GUI mode
• Allow AES key rotation by keeping old key and updating config file to new key encryption
• Added --no-gui compile time parameter
• Added arm/arm64 support
• Added source types (--files-from, --files-from-verbatim and --files-from-raw equivalent)
• Add encrypted environment variables support
• Add SSL certificate verification bypass for prometheus metrics
• Add grafana dashboard to examples directory
• Implemented new password command functionality
• Added windows executable signature script

Fixes

• Cosmetic fixes
• Fixup bogus restic command line when empty tag lines were given
• Added missing default value for ignoring cloud files in the example configuration
• Made sure npbackup can run when no tkinter is installed (headless)
• Fix config fails when restic password is an int
• Fix empty config files did not show a proper error message
• Fix various config file malformation will break execution
• Fix backup hangs when no restic password is given (restic asks for password in backgroud job)
• Fix error message in logs when repo is not initialized
• Various smaller fixes
• Fix empty restic results will make prometheus metrics fail
• Fix upgrade server missing port in config file would prevent default port usage
• Fix empty tag lines did create bogus restic commands
• Fix upgrade client was using OS arch instead of python arch preventing old builds with Python 3.7 x86 to properly update
• Fix missing locale might fail on certain linux builds
• Don't build NPBackupInstaller on non Windows platforms
• Make translation manager more resilient
• Make sure backend binary is always executable in Linux nuitka builds
• Make sure all multiline entries in config files are processed as lists
• Add exclude-patterns to GUI (was present in CLI version already)
• Make sure we always quote exclusions patterns or files
• SECURITY Show unencrypted is only allowed on compiled builds where default AES KEY is not used
• This prevents a password injection from another conf file
• SECURITY Prevent raw password update in config file
• Fix empty password makes GUI fail
• Fix empty password makes CLI fail
• Fix empty data is shown as encrypted
• Enforce repository and passwords to be strings, also remove trailing and ending spaces
• Add warning when source and destination are the same path
• Add default 1 minute timeout for init operations
• Fix auto_upgrade_group wasn't transmitted to server
• Fix potential deadlock in evaluate variables
• Fix additionnal parameters should only apply for backup operations
• Fix unnecessary exclude statements when no exclusions are given

Misc

• Improved setup.py to provide launch scripts for both Linux and Windows platforms
• Added default configuration settings
• Rewrite configuration gui into a tabbed gui
• Updated restic binary to restic 0.15.1 compiled with go1.19.5
• Changed backup interval unit from seconds to minutes
• Add gui popup when config cannot be saved
• Make repo connection messages more clear
• Remove default backup admin password from config
• Switch to maintained version of python-i18n at https://github.com/Krutyi-4el/i18nice
• upgrade server now identifies npbackup version in current_version call
• Updated internal restic binary to 0.15.2 compiled with go1.20.3
• SECURITY Don't log password command, even in debug mode
• Compiled with Nuitka commercial 1.5.8
• Make sure new binary is set as executable in linux upgrade