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 This file summarizes changes between releases of Obnam.
 
-Version 0.9.2, released 2008-04-29; a DEVELOPMENT release
+Version 0.10, released 2010-06-29; an ALPHA release
+---------------------------------------------------
 
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-    
-    IMPORTANT CHANGES:
-    
-    * Data that has been backed up is now re-used instead of backed up
-      again. Obviously this is what should be done, but the previous
-      release was pushed out anyway, without this feature. Now that this
-      works again, running obnam on a data set that has not changed only
-      creates a new generation object, a new host block, and a new map
-      block, no other data is uploaded.
-
-Version 0.9.1, released 2008-03-24; a DEVELOPMENT release
-
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-    
-    IMPORTANT CHANGES:
-    
-    * This release changes the way how file meta data (names, permissions,
-      etc) are store. The new way should be much more efficient than the
-      old way, and all old backups can still be restored with the new
-      version. New backups made with the new version cannot be handled
-      by the old version, however.
-      
-      This version has not been extensively tested yet. That is the
-      purpose of develpoment releases. Be very careful when using
-      this version: there may be bugs that make you lose data.
-
-    * A particular problem with this development version of Obnam is that
-      it currently does not re-use old data. Every file is backed up
-      every time, even if it existed in the backup store in a previous
-      generation. This will make your store size explode.
-      
-      That probably means you don't want to use this except to
-      play with it to see if anything at all works. (This is also
-      why we won't publish a .deb.)
-      
-    CHANGES TO INTERNALS:
-    
-    * Most of the code has been touched, to simplify things and to
-      introduce new internal abstractions. As a result, the code base
-      should be quite a bit cleaner now.
-
-Version 0.9.0, released 2007-12-09; a DEVELOPMENT release
-
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-    
-    BUG FIXES:
-    
-    * Manual pages formatting now works under Ubuntu, under version
-      0.8.8-4 of docbook2x, by specifying the input file encoding
-      explicitly.
-    
-    USER VISIBLE CHANGES:
-    
-    * --use-psyco option removed. It didn't improve run times: most of
-      the time is spent doing other kinds of things.
-      
-    * Errors when running GnuPG or rsync should now result in clearer
-      messages to the user, and not hide them in the log file.
-    
-    CHANGES TO INTERNALS:
-    
-    * A lot of re-factoring to make internal interfaces clearer, in
-      preparation for future new features and improvements.
-      
-    * A new unit test runner that checks for full statement coverage
-      using coverage.py.
-      
-    * More and improved unit tests, with fuller coverage, though not yet
-      complete coverage.
-      
-    * Unit tests now complete in less than five seconds on my laptop. This
-      makes it not be annoying to run them tens of times per day.
-
-Version 0.8.3, released 2007-10-23; a STABLE release
-
-    IMPROVEMENTS:
-    
-    * Progress bar is updates every 64 kilobytes, instead of every block,
-      to make waiting less worrying on slow lines. Also, when blocks are
-      uploaded or downloaded, this is reported instead of the current
-      filename.
-
-Version 0.8.2, released 2007-08-14; a DEVELOPMENT release
-
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-    
-    BUG FIXES:
-    
-    * The "forget" feature that was sped up in 0.8 had some bugs (wrong
-      function name in one place), which was fixed.
-      
-    * In some cases, forgetting generations led to a corrupted host block.
-      Specifically, if the new host block was shorter than the old one,
-      there was corruption. Fixed now.
-      
-    * Also, sometimes forgetting leads to dangling block references
-      in map blocks, and obnam would crash on them during the next
-      forget run. Fixed now.
-    
-    NEW FEATURES:
-    
-    * Uploaded blocks of data are now put into the cache, so that the next
-      backup run doesn't need to download them again. This only happens
-      for meta data, such as file lists for generations, not actual file
-      data.
-
-Version 0.8.1, released 2007-08-07; a DEVELOPMENT release
-
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-
-    BUG FIXES THAT CONCERN USERS:
-
-    * The sftp transport now doesn't fail when uploading. It used to try
-      to adjust the permissions of files before they had been uploaded,
-      resulting in sub-optimal completion of backup task (read: a crash).
-
-    * Version is now reported correctly by --version.
-
-Version 0.8, released 2007-08-07; a DEVELOPMENT release
-
-    NOTE:
-
-    This is a development release, for the purpose of testing. It is not
-    meant for production use. Do not rely on this version for any
-    backups that are important. However, if you are willing to take a
-    risk, any testing experiences would be most welcome.
-
-    BUG FIXES THAT CONCERN USERS:
-    
-    * The Obnam manual page typo fix ("burdened" was misspelt).
-    
-    * In some cases, when reporting a problem backing up a file, the name
-      of the file was not reported. Now it is. Thanks to Teemu Ikonen for
-      reporting the problem.
-    
-    OTHER CHANGES THAT CONCERN USERS:
-      
-    * Speedups in some operations, in some cases very large speedups.
-    
-    * Stopping obnam with Control-C now gives a warning message that makes
-      sense to those who aren't Python programmers.
-      
-    * The Obnam manual page clarifies what "host-id" is, and has an
-      explanation and examples of sftp addresses.
-      
-    * The Obnam manual page now documents that --generation-times timestamps
-      are in the UTC time zone. Thanks to Michael Greb.
-      
-    * Errors in command line usage now result in proper error messages,
-      rather than Python stack traces.
-      
-    * Clarified the Obnam manual page to say that the "forget" operation
-      keeps deltas from forgotten generations if they're still needed for
-      the remaining generations.
-      
-    * The manual page now clarifies that backups are incremental, but that
-      this is kept invisible to the user.
-      
-    * Uploaded block files now have a permission setting of 0600 instead
-      of 0666 modified by umask. Thanks to Tollef Fog Heen.
-    
-    * The inode number, device number, block size, and block counts are
-      now ignored when deciding whether a file needs backing up. Also, the
-      manual page now explains the rules for when a file does get backed
-      up. Thanks to Tollef Fog Heen.
-    
-    STUFF THAT MATTERS TO DEVELOPERS:
-    
-    * "make clean" removes obnamfs.1.
-    
-    * "make check" checks that every file under version conrol has a
-      copyright statement and refers to the GPL, or is mentioned in
-      check-license-exceptions.
-
-    * Various places have more logging.debug statements, for easier
-      debugging. Some places have less, when they were deemed unnecessary
-      and slowed things down.
-      
-    * manifest.py now (again) recurses into directories and is faster and
-      uses less memory.
-    
-
-Version 0.7, released 2007-04-01
-
-    * This is not an April Fool's joke.
-    
-    * "obnam restore" can now restore individual files or directories
-      (and all files and directories within those directories).
-    
-    * Log files are now opened so they're readable only by the owner. This
-      is better for security.
-      
-    * obnamfs now has a manual page. The main obnam manual page now includes
-      examples of usage.
-
-
-Version 0.6, released 2007-03-06
-    
-    * Manual page updates.
-    
-    * odirect_read now works under Linux kernel 2.4.
-    
-    * --progress reports final numbers at the end of the backup, and
-      doesn't mess up the output under screen(1).
-      
-    * Log file time stamps are now absolute, instead of being relative to
-      the beginning of the program.
-      
-    * There is a preliminary FUSE filesystem for browsing and reading
-      backups made with Obnam.
-      
-    * A problem with caching combined with encryption was fixed.
-
-
-Version 0.5, released 2007-02-15
-
-    * Debian packaging much improved.
-
-
-Version 0.4, released 2007-02-15
-
-    * odirect_read now works over Samba and other network filesystems.
-      It does not use O_DIRECT in those cases, since that won't work,
-      but backups can be made, at the expense of some disk cache flushing.
-
-
-Version 0.3, released 2007-02-13
-
-    * Now uses the rsync algorithm for handling changed files.
-
-    * sftp transport.
-    
-    * Encryption of backups.
-    
-    * Reads files by bypassing the operating system disk cache, so that
-      doing a backup doesn't fill the cache with useless stuff.
-      
-    * Support for configuration files.
-    
-    * Possibility to exclude files using regular expressions on pathnames.
-      
-    * Many speed improvements.
-    
-    * Optional progress indication.
-    
-    * Numerous other small improvements.
-
-
-Version 0.1, released 2006-11-12
-
-    * First alpha release. The code is completely rewritten from earlier
-      prototypes. Data formats have changed and old formats are not
-      supported.
+* Rewritten from scratch.
+* Old NEWS file entries removed (see bzr if you're interested).