Hello, As upstream maintainer of the project Back In Time, please allow me to announce the second release candidate preparing for version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie and therefore related Ubuntu versions.
Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems. Feel free to use our Mastodon account @backintime@fosstodon.org.
- EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and is schedule for removal in 2026.
- The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into “Remove & Retention”, with improvements to the user manual section. Its behavior remains unchange.
- An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
- Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced state file.
- License and copyright information is now provided in machine-readable SPDX format, following the REUSE standard.
- See CHANGELOG for more details.