v0.10.0-beta1

Overdue release that combines many bug fixes, refactoring and maintenance tasks in particular by our Google Summer of Code student, @shivansh02.

For macOS there is an Intel and Arm64 version attached. If you're on Apple Silicon, use the arm64 version, which will open much faster.

To install with pip: pip install vorta==0.10.0b1

What's Changed

• Fix issue after Qt6 migration to save allowed Wifis by @m3nu in #1903
• Update appdata.xml by @Hofer-Julian in #1885
• Detect metered connections for macos when connected to an iOS Personal Hotspot by @jramnani in #1902
• Add developer name to appdata by @Hofer-Julian in #1922
• Fix/about dialogue grammar and yr by @shivansh02 in #1936
• Fix/loglink moved below logs table by @shivansh02 in #1939
• VSC and android exclusion patterns by @shivansh02 in #1967
• Disabled "Collapse" button in "Flat" view by @AdwaitSalankar in #1855
• Sort profiles in the Backup Now tray menu by @Parnassius in #1899
• Add some more exclusion presets by @SAMAD101 in #1970
• Notify after post_backup_tasks #1632 by @TheLazron in #1940
• Keep the profile list sorted when creating/renaming profiles by @Parnassius in #1986
• hide password field if encryption is none by @shivansh02 in #2011
• add flatpak builder cache exclude preset by @Renner0E in #2020
• add a bunch of cache folders to exclude presets mainly for flatpak browsers by @Renner0E in #2027
• delete duplicate entry of flatpak builder cache by @Renner0E in #2028
• Exclude If Present by @shivansh02 in #2016
• Compaction Scheduling by @shivansh02 in #1981
• Remove duplicate sources on profile import by @shivansh02 in #2017
• Update Log path in Issue Template by @shivansh02 in #2032
• Sources table UI updated to match Archives table by @shivansh02 in #2034
• Add misc exclusion patterns by @shivansh02 in #2021
• Improved Exception Dialog with Copy Paste by @shivansh02 in #1977
• Schedule tab refactoring by @shivansh02 in #2035
• .ui files changed to snake_case by @shivansh02 in #2042
• Refactor get_mount_points by @shivansh02 in #2044
• palette_changed connection moved to schedule_tab by @shivansh02 in #2050
• Fix generic window icon on Wayland by @Parnassius in #2068
• Catch case of none-existant profile from logs by @m3nu in #2073
• Fixed missing icons in GNOME Overview and GNOME Dock by @topas-rec in #2052
• l10n - make string translatable (syntax fix) by @p-bo in #2078
• Fix macOS build action by @m3nu in #2076
• Exclusion presets: add Firefox Snap Cache by @Chaikney in #2086
• Add mask-based tray icon for macOS by @alecdwm in #2091
• Replacement of flake8 with Ruff by @SAMAD101 in #1980

New Contributors

• @jramnani made their first contribution in #1902
• @shivansh02 made their first contribution in #1936
• @Parnassius made their first contribution in #1899
• @TheLazron made their first contribution in #1940
• @Renner0E made their first contribution in #2020
• @topas-rec made their first contribution in #2052
• @p-bo made their first contribution in #2078
• @Chaikney made their first contribution in #2086
• @alecdwm made their first contribution in #2091

Full Changelog: v0.9.1...v0.10.0-beta1

v0.9.1

This is the first release of our 0.9 branch. Work on this started in early 2023 and many new features and improvements were implemented since then. For details see previous pre-releases. Here just some highlights:

• Profile Sidebar and New Setting Interface by @bigtedde in #1809
• Exclude GUI by @diivi in #1846
• Use Qt6 for the interface. #1685, by @i1sm3ky
• Integration testing with Borg and increased coverage by @jetchirag and @bigtedde

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to contribute either bug reports, code or translations. 🙏

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v0.9.1-beta3

We are almost ready for the first 0.9 release. This beta finally merges the new GUI to better manage file exclusions by @diivi. Some things you can now do around exclusions:

• We ship exclusion presets for common use cases. Currently there are just a few, but we hope to add more over time. PRs welcome, if you have good exclusion lists around a specific topic.
• Add your own exclusions and enable/disable them individually
• You can always view the final exclusion list under Preview

Breaking changes ⚠️

• Your existing exclusions can be found in the Raw tab. They will continue to be used as-is.
• The "Exclude if present" feature isn't implemented in the new exclusion dialog yet. If you use this feature, you can manually add --exclude-if-present .nobackup in Schedule -> Shell commands -> Extra arguments for borg create.

What's Changed

• Loosen platformdirs dependency by @stefanor in #1843
• Backup settings.db before migrations by @AdwaitSalankar in #1848
• Exclude GUI by @diivi in #1846

New Contributors

• @stefanor made their first contribution in #1843
• @AdwaitSalankar made their first contribution in #1848

Full Changelog: v0.9.1-beta2...v0.9.1-beta3

v0.9.1-beta2

This is the second (or third) beta release of our upcoming 0.9 branch.

Main changes are a revamped interface and improved tests, by our Google Summer of Code contributor, @bigtedde.

What's Changed

• PR: Complete Unit Test cleanup/parametrization/coverage increases by @bigtedde in #1787
• PR: Implement Profile Sidebar and New Setting Interface by @bigtedde in #1809
• Update notarization for use with notarytool by @m3nu in #1831

Full Changelog: v0.9.1-beta1...v0.9.1-beta2

v0.9.1-beta1

I'm proud to release the second beta version of our new 0.9 branch. With Google Summer of Code at full steam over the summer, the team got a lot done, with a few major features still pending for the next beta.

Thanks are also due to our mentors, who guided contributors while working on their pull requests. 👏 @real-yfprojects @Hofer-Julian

Please share your feedback here, so we can keep improving this branch until the final release.

Breaking changes

This Vorta version ships with Borg 1.2.6 (when using our macOS app), which fixes an issue with data authentication. So you may get an error saying "Data integrity error: Archive authentication did not verify". In that case, at a minimum, if you trust the repository, you need to run the following upgrade steps. Full details are described in Borg's release notes:

1. Copy the repository URL. You can do this in Vorta's Repository tab using the Copy to clipboard button next to the repository selector.
2. Ensure you have the repo passphrase ready. Vorta would keep it in the OS' keychain usually.
3. Run this in the terminal: BORG_WORKAROUNDS=ignore_invalid_archive_tam borg upgrade --archives-tam $REPO_URL

Selected major features and improvements

• You can now give names to repos to manage them more easily. By @diivi (#1665)
• There are now separate unit tests and integration tests with live Borg installs, as well as higher test coverage. By @jetchirag and @bigtedde
• Password entry is now done with a reusable widget. By @jetchirag, #1662
• Vorta now uses Qt6 for the interface. #1685, by @i1sm3ky
• @sten0 from Debian helped us to clean up our icon licensing situation. #1729

Full list of changes

15fa46f Improve SSH key process. By @bigtedde (#1802)
cff00ad Add '.log' suffix to log files. By @bigtedde (#1710)
43140be Refactor archive context menu. By @bigtedde (#1793)
3573bdb Minor: README type. By @prady0t (#1822)
4350f78 Prevent borg operation while renaming. By @bigtedde (#1791)
7d2b363 Changed label and tooltip for startup setting of Vorta (#1804)
8c82c40 Changed title of adding new repo and existing repo. By @SAMAD101 (#1810)
567a354 Reduce number of tests. By @bigtedde (#1780)
e5c9b22 Improve import/export feature test coverage. By @bigtedde (#1774)
3bfa78b Fix health indicator always being green in extract view.
2caa093 Source tab test improvements. By @bigtedde (#1772)
81920ea Repo test improvements. By @bigtedde (#1771)
e85ec38 Add diff tests. By @bigtedde (#1770)
ee71bca DRY tests, increase coverage. By @bigtedde (#1769)
fb42614 Add test utility functions (#1768)
30c5722 Inline archive renaming. By @diivi (#1734)
92f285f Add full font licenses, add Google icons to README. (#1740)
b58ffb6 Setting for number format in archive tab. By @bigtedde (#1719)
b015368 Integration Tests for Borg (#1716)
0e37e1c Correct homebrew path on arm macOS. By @sammcj (#1760)
25b4cc0 Introduced password input widget (#1662)
157ac37 Run actions on multiple archives. By @diivi (#1723)
ec1dfcd Add profile name to error notification. (#1728)
d087654 Update GSoC notice in README (#1739)
50be34c Use maintained stale action (#1737)
92608f9 Assign names to repos. By @diivi (#1665)
f76195e Disable compact button for older borg versions. By @diivi (#1727)
c56c670 Show trigger (user/scheduled) in Archive tab. By @diivi (#1732)
210a968 Replace CC-BY Vaadin icon (#1735)
70ad554 Replace Font Awesome icons with Fork Awesome and others (#1729)
2cb9afd Add a dev mode that allows for local storing of config files and logs (#1682)
5a3a7cf Run pre-commit in lint ci and polish ci setup. (#1712)
d7634e8 Clear contents of log_text after successfull backup (#1626)
82270ad Add re-format with ruff to .git-blame-ignore.revs.
24e1dd5 Run pre-commit (with newly added ruff) on code base.
f0a5a36 ci: Add ruff including print checks
4d65912 Fix pyobjc imports, bump minimum Python version (#1698)
20b7b49 hostname and fqdn template var consistent with Borg (#1697)
7535f92 (tag: v0.9.0) PyQt6 Upgrade (#1685)
8571ef6 Remove paramiko from dependencies

v0.9.0 (pre-release)

This is the first pre-release of the 0.9 branch that uses PyQt6 under the hood.

To test on macOS, use the attached build, which also includes Borg 1.2.4. To test on Linux, see our developer guide.

Thanks to @i1sm3ky and @real-yfprojects for making this happen.

v0.8.12

Removes a leftover dependency of paramiko. Rest same as v0.8.11

v0.8.11

This release includes a large number of smaller improvements by our Google Summer of Code contributors and others.

This will also be the last larger update of the 0.8 branch. Work will continue in the 0.9 branch that uses the next version 6 of the Qt framework.

Some highlights:

• Retain sort settings in extract, diff and source views. (By @diivi and @jetchirag )
• Setting to disable Full disk access check on macOS (By @bigtedde)
• Support new Borg diff types (By @henry-spanka)
• Remove Paramiko dependency (By @diivi)
• Migrate from appdirs to platformdirs (By @ganeshrevadi)
• Add tooltips to many settings in Misc tab (By @real-yfprojects)
• Allow adding a SSH key when no repo was added yet (By @tobast)

Changes in details

b51b1ef Save list view as setting. By @diivi (#1621)
828e029 Use pf pattern format for extract. By @real-yfprojects (#1625)
6d5e738 Retain source tab sort settings. By @jetchirag (#1649)
a64493d Setting for Full Disk Access check. By @bigtedde (#1653)
e3451ed Handle ctime and mtime diff changes (#1675)
f407032 Revert "Added --content-only flag for borg 1.2.4 in diff view"
e0fe766 Added --content-only flag for borg 1.2.4 in diff view
d024597 Disable Archive tab buttons during backup. By @sunny775 (#1587)
3ebb078 feat: add profile name to log messages (#1637)
1f12782 Remove paramiko dependency (#1606)
c4d16e2 Fixes math error for negative size in diff view in archive tab
6bc5321 Add link to the logs folder in borg warnings (#1609)
961e0b5 Migrate from appdirs to platformdirs (#1617)
b01fa10 Replace print with logging in application.py (#1612)
a00ed62 Fix detecting whether sources are configured (#1613)
618a1fe Add tooltips to settings. (#1521)
bcc126b (real-yfprojects/master) Improve size column readability in archives tab (#1598)
a048dad Allow copying the public part of the first SSH key
0cf9f0b Modify pre-commit config file using autoupdate (#1601)
f1e1ea4 Update type of debug_enabled input.
35d9a3b Adjust dev files for borgbase/vorta.borgbase.com#32 (#1585)
1b27b9b Allow creating an SSH key when bootstrapping Vorta
ffafcee Correctly supply prune pattern for borg >=1.2.2 (#1565)
a4ab7e7 Specify build system (minor) (#1580)
7886354 Remove pip install dependency. By @abdeoliveira (#1578)

v0.8.10

This is a larger release and is mostly the work of @real-yfprojects. Kudos to him and other contributors for all the great improvements! 🙌

Major changes:

• Add Borg v2 compatibility (based on beta4). By @real-yfprojects and @m3nu
• Improve Linux desktop tray behavior. By @real-yfprojects
• Improve check and extract commands. By @endumiuz
• Fix blocking issue with temp file when extracting files @real-yfprojects

Changes in detail:
2e589a0 Update translations (and Transifex config)
696c3fb Migrate to --match-archives in mount point detection.
5e04638 Specify archive using -a for borg v2 mount.
b4a7c54 Move umount logic from archive_tab.py into existing BorgUmountJob. By @real-yfprojects (#1404)
e275215 Specify the use of a sh:-style pattern when pruning with borg v2.
ba5c7c5 Move rename logic for arguments into BorgRenameJob.
f9d1260 Remove compression field. Don't store timezone in db.
2b2d61b Implement borg v2 compatibility for most commands.
fa3a6cf Add borg v2 compatibility item.
78ec74a Fix tray menu on XFCE.
a6f7577 Fix dynamic colouring.
c620c0d (real-yfprojects/master) Handle empty path in FileTreeModel.addItem. (#1552)
ef297bb Avoid autostart warning when autostart disabled (#1549)
66340bc Add support for --paths-from-command to extra borg arguments. (#1538)
bf9285a Fix typo in issue bug template
cb4e3a1 Update usage of deprecated features in test.yml. (#1539)
cace077 Run borg compact with the --progress option
84fdbe5 Pass int to QPoint constructor.
b80e617 Change label Folders On Top to Folders First in Extract and Diff view.
7e7abaf Catch ProcessLookupError in BorgJob.cancel. (#1520)
225e84f Show progress on repo check (#1513)
6779bae Use new ssh://-style URL format as placeholder and in test (#1473)
667f3b3 Restart timers after hibernation/sleep (#1511) By @fixmeee
b072496 Populate repo info from profile after populating dropdowns.
031a498 Don't close temp file before running borg extract.
648c916 Update flatpak install rule, remove flatpak folder. By @Hofer-Julian

v0.8.9

This is a bugfix release on top of v0.8.8. It includes a fix for the Extract
feature, pins Pyobjc for macOS to the latest stable version and adds
new translations for Dutch.

722a841 Supply repository and archive name to borg in BorgListArchiveJob.
14a1de8 Add missing brackets fixing BorgListArchiveJob.
99eb287 Add Dutch language update
7550ae5 Pin pyobjc to v8 branch