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Re: Please test tarsnap 1.0.37



No issues here on amd64 OpenBSD 5.9-current. As soon as 1.0.37 is
released I'll update our port.

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:54:26PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> A potential version 1.0.37 of the Tarsnap client code is ready for testing.
> 
> You can find the new code at
>   https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.37a.tgz
> and the tarball has SHA256 hash
>   25449f87c5f46191c9efd085a209d3f0de8839566dc5e2ce63064fe338d1c718
> 
> You can also see all the changes between 1.0.36 and this version in the
> newly-public git repository at
>   https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap
> 
> Substantive changes in this code compared to tarsnap 1.0.36:
>  * tarsnap-key(gen|mgmt|regen) now accept a --passphrase-time option,
> which specifies the duration to be spent on computing the derived keys
> used for encrypting the tarsnap key file.
> 
>  * tarsnap now accepts a --keep-going option when deleting or printing
> statistics about multiple archives.
> 
>  * tarsnap-keymgmt now accepts a --print-key-permissions option for
> listing the permissions contained in a key file.
> 
>  * tarsnap --print-stats now accepts a --csv-file option for printing
> statistics in comma-separated-value format.
> 
>  * tarsnap now accepts a --verify-config command which exits silently
> after checking the configuration file(s) for syntax errors.
> 
>  * tarsnap now looks for a server named "v1-0-0-server.tarsnap.com"
> instead of the historic "betatest-server.tarsnap.com" hostname.  This
> should have no user-visible effect in most configurations.
> 
>  * tarsnap now correctly warns if a sparse extract fails due to hardlinks.
> 
>  * tarsnap now prints a warning if creating an empty archive.
> 
> And as usual, lots of minor build fixes, harmless bug fixes, and code
> refactoring / cleanups.
> 
> In addition to the updated code, we are now publishing a Debian source
> package.  (This is the first step towards publishing binary packages in
> the future.)  To use this, follow the "Debian - Users" instructions on
>   https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/pkg/DEBIAN.md
> but change the url from
>   http://pkg.tarsnap.com/deb-src/
> (which is where the bits will end up eventually) to
>   http://pkg.tarsnap.com/experimental/deb-src/
> (which is where where the alphatest packages will reside).
> 
> Assuming I don't get any emails complaining that something is broken, I'll
> be releasing this officially as version 1.0.37 in about a week.  As always,
> if you find any newly introduced bugs before the official release, you'll
> be eligible for double the normal Tarsnap bug bounties.
> 
> - -- 
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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James Turner