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Please test: tarsnap 1.0.38



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Hi all,

A potential version 1.0.38 of the Tarsnap client code is ready for testing.

You can find the new code at
  https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.37.99.tgz
and the tarball has SHA256 hash
  e2b2485ce3afde9c883cd73bf5668d4feb80318d601ed142caad3dcb6da4e1ff

(Note that the version numbering has changed -- previously this would have
been "1.0.38a", but that was confusing some tools, so future "alphatest"
versions are going to be (N-1).99 instead.)

You can also see all the changes between 1.0.37 and this version in the
newly-public git repository at
  https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap

Potentially (but unlikely) breaking changes in this code compared to tarsnap
1.0.37:

* tarsnap now applies the --humanize-numbers option to the "progress" output
printed by SIGINFO / SIGUSR1.  If you have scripts which send signals to
tarsnap and parse its output, they may need to be updated.

* tarsnap -v now prints 'Deleting archive "foo"' even if only one archive is
being deleted.  If you have scripts which parse the output of tarsnap -v,
they may need to be updated.

* tarsnap now prints a warning if you pass '--configfile /nosuchfile'.  If you
have scripts which rely on being able to specify nonexistent configuration
files and not get any warnings from tarsnap, they may need to be updated.
(Also, if you were doing that, I *really* want to know why.)

Other substantive changes in this code compared to tarsnap 1.0.37:

* tarsnap now supports OpenSSL 1.1.

* tarsnap accepts an --iso-dates option, which causes times to be printed in
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format rather than the traditional unix "ls -l" style.

* tarsnap accepts a --force-resources option to proceed with decryption of a
passphrase-encrypted key file even if it is anticipated to use an excessive
amount of memory or CPU time.  (This may be useful if tarsnap inaccurately
estimates the amount of memory your system has available.)

* tarsnap accepts an --archive-names <file> option, which reads a list of
archive names to operate on when operating in -d and --print-stats modes.
(This should make some scripts simpler; no more need to construct a command
line which has '-f' inserted before each archive name.)

There are also two changes which most users should not encounter:

* tarsnap now has an --initialize-cachedir mode; this is intended for use by
the GUI.  (The cache directory will be initialized automatically in normal
usage of the tarsnap command-line utility.)

* tarsnap's configure script takes a --with-conf-no-sample option which
results in the sample tarsnap configuration file being installed as
"tarsnap.conf" rather than "tarsnap.conf.sample".  This is intended for use in
some packaging systems which have mechanisms for managing configuration files,
and should probably not be used by hand (since it will overwrite your existing
tarsnap.conf).

As usual, there are also lots of minor build fixes, harmless bug fixes, and
code cleanups.

Those of you who are using the tarsnap "experimental" package set should find
that version 1.0.37.99 will install via the usual apt-get command.  (Please
let me know if this doesn't happen; in addition to testing tarsnap 1.0.38, I
want to make sure that the binary package upgrades work as expected.)

Assuming I don't get any emails complaining that something is broken, I'll
be releasing this officially as version 1.0.38 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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