This is an alpha release so that many people can test new features. All changes are documented in the changelog, but the highlights are the new command line interface, the --help option, the support of long names under Windows v1607 and higher, and the fixing of a few more long standing bugs.
Please use this release to test and report issues, especially regarding:
- usage in client/server in combination with version v2.0.5 of rdiff-backup
- do you like the new interface? Where is it not so intuitive?
- usage under Windows (and MacOS/X)
It's an alpha version, everything might change, disappear and/or fail, do NOT get in love with a specific feature and do NOT use this version for production.
The installation procedure hasn't changed much and is available from the readme (alpha packages might or might not be offered by the maintainers, in doubt install via pip install rdiff-backup==2.1.0a0 under Linux and use the attached binaries under Windows). You might want to use the side-by-side installation to safeguard your productive installation.