Release Candidate: Back in Time 1.5.0

[buhtz]

Blocked by #1808

Summary

The Qt version used increased from 5 to 6. EncFS is marked as deprecated. BIT warns if cron is not running. As a new feature an SSH proxy (aka jump host) can be used. For more details see the changelog.

This release has several new contributors. Thank you to all of them, several issues could be fixed and the code quality increased.

• Ayush Saluja: Improving code quality
• Christie Grinham: Implement SSH proxy feature
• David Gibbs: Fix "places" widget in main window and "one file system" export option.
• DerekVeit: Fix a long standing Qt segmentation fault
• JATIN-RAGHAV: Improve code quality and docu
• Kosta Vukicevic: Improve debug behavior of the GUI and code quality.
• Rafael Hurpia da Rocha: Fix "Backup folders" list in main window.
• Tianyi Tao: Improve code quality with refactoring.
• Tom Hunter: Improve code quality with refactoring.
• Vaibhav Raj: Improve code quality with refactoring.

Also several new translators and former translators updating their translations to fit to the latest development. Thank you to them the language translation coverage increased to 82 %.

Installation

This release contains the source code only but no distro packages. To install the new release from the source code please follow our build & installation instructions.

Known major issues open

• qt_probing.py may hang with high CPU usage when running Back In Time as root via cron (#1592)
• File permissions handling and therefore possible non-differential backups (#988 & #994)

Changelog

• Dependency: Migration to PyQt6
• Breaking Change: EncFS deprecation warning (feat+docu(EncFS): Deprecation warning in the GUI and details in whitepaper #1735, Transition of encryption feature: Remove EncFS (and replace it if possible) until year 2029/30 #1734)
• Breaking Change: GUI started with --debug does no longer add --debug to the crontab for scheduled profiles.
  Use the new "enable logging for debug messages" in the 'Schedule' section of the 'Manage profiles' GUI instead.
• Feature: Warn if Cron is not running (refactor: Extract and decouple cron-related code from config.py and tools.py #1747)
• Feature: Profile and GUI allow to activate debug output for scheduled jobs by adding '--debug' to crontab entry (Add --debug checkbox to BiT GUI for cron jobs #1616, contributed by @stcksmsh Kosta Vukicevic)
• Feature: Support SSH proxy (jump) host (Implement SSH Proxy Host #1688) (@cgrinham, Christie Grinham)
• Feature: Support rsync '--one-file-system' in Expert Options (Add option to exclude network file systems #1598)
• Feature: "*-dev" version strings contain last commit hash (Identify BiT dev build by git hash #1637)
• Fix: Global flock fallback to single-user mode if insufficient permissions ([Errno 13] Permission denied: '/run/lock/backintime.lock' (on Arch) #1743, Global flock active by default (but shouldn't) #1751)
• Fix: Fix Qt segmentation fault with uninstall ExtraMouseButtonEventFilter when closing main window (Segmentation fault on Exit (Qt) #1095)
• Fix: Names of weekdays and months translated correct (Weekday names in Schedule dialog do not respect language settings #1729)
• Fix: Global flock for multiple users (Missing support for multiple users on the same host / same lock-file used by user and root #1122, PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/backintime.lock' #1676)
• Fix bug: "Backup folders" list does reflect the selected snapshot ("Backup folders" list should reflect the selected snapshot #1585) (@rafaelhdr Rafael Hurpia da Rocha)
• Fix: Validation of diff command settings in compare snapshots dialog (Compare snapshots: Don't use "false" as fallback diff command #1662) (@stcksmsh Kosta Vukicevic)
• Fix bug: Open symlinked folders in file view (FileView can not open symlinked folders #1476)
• Fix bug: Respect dark mode using color roles (Fore-/Background color of 2nd level list header should take dark-mode into account #1601)
• Fix: "Highly recommended" exclusion pattern in "Manage Profile" dialog's "Exclude" tab show missing only ("Highly recommended" exclusion patterns in "Manage profiles" GUI dialog should show only missing patterns #1620)
• Fix bug: make install ignored $(DEST) in file migration part (make install uses absolute path without $(DEST) to delete files outside of the staging directory #1630)
• Removed: Context menu in LogViewDialog (LogViewDialog: Remove hidden feature "Exclude" because it is redundant #1578)
• Removed: Field "filesystem_mount" and "snapshot_version" in "info" file (Remove dead code related to "filesystem_mounts" and "snapshot_version" field in backup "info" file #1684)
• Refactor: Replace Config.user() with getpass.getuser() (Remove: Config.user() #1694)
• Chore!: Remove "debian" folder (Remove debian-folder #1548)
• Build: Enable several PyLint rules (Enable PyLint rules of your own choice and fix the errors #1755, refactor: Enable and fix PyLint rules C0305 (trailing-newlines), C0324 (superfluous-parens), C0410 (multiple-imports), E0213 (no-self-argument) #1766)
• Build: Add AppStream meta data (Build: Add AppStream meta data #1642)
• Build: PyLint unit test is skipped if PyLint isn't installed, but will always run on TravisCI (pylint unit test test_lint.py should be executed "on demand" only (not as installation test on clients) #1634)
• Build: Git commit hash is presevered while "make install" (Identify BiT dev build by git hash #1637)
• Build: Fix bash-completion symlink creation while installing & adding --diagnostics (common/Makefile fails with ERROR 1 due to "ln: failed to create symbolic link ... backintime-qt" #1615)
• Build: TravisCI use PyQt (except arch "ppc64le")

[buhtz]

Testing was fine. Will do the release in the next hours.