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Changelog for restic 0.9.5 (2019-04-23)

The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.5 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.

Summary

• Fix #2135: Return error when no bytes could be read from stdin
• Fix #2181: Don't cancel timeout after 30 seconds for self-update
• Fix #2203: Fix reading passwords from stdin
• Fix #2224: Don't abort the find command when a tree can't be loaded
• Enh #1895: Add case insensitive include & exclude options
• Enh #1937: Support streaming JSON output for backup
• Enh #2155: Add Openstack application credential auth for Swift
• Enh #2184: Add --json support to forget command
• Enh #2037: Add group-by option to snapshots command
• Enh #2124: Ability to dump folders to tar via stdout
• Enh #2139: Return error if no bytes could be read for backup --stdin
• Enh #2205: Add --ignore-inode option to backup cmd
• Enh #2220: Add config option to set S3 storage class

Details

• Bugfix #2135: Return error when no bytes could be read from stdin

  We assume that users reading backup data from stdin want to know when no data could be read, so now restic returns an error when backup --stdin is called but no bytes could be read. Usually, this means that an earlier command in a pipe has failed. The documentation was amended and now recommends setting the pipefail option (set -o pipefail).

  #2135 #2139

• Bugfix #2181: Don't cancel timeout after 30 seconds for self-update

  #2181

• Bugfix #2203: Fix reading passwords from stdin

  Passwords for the init, key add, and key passwd commands can now be read from non-terminal stdin.

  #2203

• Bugfix #2224: Don't abort the find command when a tree can't be loaded

  Change the find command so that missing trees don't result in a crash. Instead, the error is logged to the debug log, and the tree ID is displayed along with the snapshot it belongs to. This makes it possible to recover repositories that are missing trees by forgetting the snapshots they are used in.

  #2224

• Enhancement #1895: Add case insensitive include & exclude options

  The backup and restore commands now have --iexclude and --iinclude flags as case insensitive variants of --exclude and --include.

  #1895 #2032

• Enhancement #1937: Support streaming JSON output for backup

  We've added support for getting machine-readable status output during backup, just pass the flag --json for restic backup and restic will output a stream of JSON objects which contain the current progress.

  #1937 #1944

• Enhancement #2155: Add Openstack application credential auth for Swift

  Since Openstack Queens Identity (auth V3) service supports an application credential auth method. It allows to create a technical account with the limited roles. This commit adds an application credential authentication method for the Swift backend.

  #2155

• Enhancement #2184: Add --json support to forget command

  The forget command now supports the --json argument, outputting the information about what is (or would-be) kept and removed from the repository.

  #2184 #2185

• Enhancement #2037: Add group-by option to snapshots command

  We have added an option to group the output of the snapshots command, similar to the output of the forget command. The option has been called "--group-by" and accepts any combination of the values "host", "paths" and "tags", separated by commas. Default behavior (not specifying --group-by) has not been changed. We have added support of the grouping to the JSON output.

  #2037 #2087

• Enhancement #2124: Ability to dump folders to tar via stdout

  We've added the ability to dump whole folders to stdout via the dump command. Restic now requires at least Go 1.10 due to a limitation of the standard library for Go <= 1.9.

  #2123 #2124

• Enhancement #2139: Return error if no bytes could be read for backup --stdin

  When restic is used to backup the output of a program, like mysqldump | restic backup --stdin, it now returns an error if no bytes could be read at all. This catches the failure case when mysqldump failed for some reason and did not output any data to stdout.

  #2139

• Enhancement #2205: Add --ignore-inode option to backup cmd

  This option handles backup of virtual filesystems that do not keep fixed inodes for files, like Fuse-based, pCloud, etc. Ignoring inode changes allows to consider the file as unchanged if last modification date and size are unchanged.

  #1631 #2205 #2047

• Enhancement #2220: Add config option to set S3 storage class

  The s3.storage-class option can be passed to restic (using -o) to specify the storage class to be used for S3 objects created by restic.

  The storage class is passed as-is to S3, so it needs to be understood by the API. On AWS, it can be one of STANDARD, STANDARD_IA, ONEZONE_IA, INTELLIGENT_TIERING and REDUCED_REDUNDANCY. If unspecified, the default storage class is used (STANDARD on AWS).

  You can mix storage classes in the same bucket, and the setting isn't stored in the restic repository, so be sure to specify it with each command that writes to S3.

  #706 #2220