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fwbackups 1.43.3rc5 is now available bringing many bugfixes, usability improvements and most importantly an updated user guide.

Configuring your backups is now easier than ever with a redesigned Options tab that does away with the complicated engine selection and introduces a new, simpler Backup Format selection. As well, this release brings better Gnome Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.1 compliance.

audio-convert-mod version 3.46.0b has been released today. It is a minor bugfix release, adding support for the 'oga' audio file extension as well as fixing the resampling configuration file bug for new users that occurred in 3.46.0a.

You can visit the project page for more information, or go straight to the downloads.

fwbackups 1.43.3 release candidate 4 is now available for download. It is a bugfix release recommended for all users as it fixes a bug found in 1.43.3rc3 which may have resulted in non-interactive backups failing to run correctly. fwbackups 1.43.3rc4 also includes the Windows-specific bugfixes included inside the 1.43.3a installers.

fwbackups 1.43.3 release candidate 3 has been released for download with numerous feature enhancements, bugfixes and security fixes:

• On Linux and OS X, the permissions of the fwbackups user directory are changed to prevent unauthorized access to stored passwords
• On Linux and OS X, backing up files will now show the backup progress as well as the name of the current file being backed up.
• Support for restore operations from remote folders (note: file permissions are not preserved)
• Fixed a problem that would cause backups to hang on Debian-based Linux distributions if the print a list of installed packages to a file option was enabled
• Fixed a problem where failing backup operations could cause fwbackups to hang on exit
• Fix a problem which caused one-time backups to fail in 1.43.3 release candidate 2

The lastest version of audio-convert-mod, version 3.46.0a, has been released! It includes many bugfixes as well as some new features:

• A new, more stable tagging system implemented in Python using mutagen
• Support audio resampling (in advanced options)
• A less cluttered UI thanks to the advanced options step in the conversion wizard
• Fixed a problem where selecting "Skip file" in the options would result in no files being encoded
• Fixed several encode/decode/tagging capability detection bugs
• Fix a regression that made users unable to browse for a specific folder in the conversion settings

You can visit the project page for more information, or go straight to the downloads.

audio-convert-mod, like fwbackups, has now moved to a public git repository at GitHub! You can have a look at the GitHub project page here.

Updates to audio-convert-mod and fwbackups are coming soon, as 1.43.3 is nearing stability and audio-convert-mod will be released with a simpler interface, two new features and a more robust, pure-python metadata reading/writing system using Mutagen.

fwbackups 1.43.3 release candidate 2 is now ready for download. It includes initial support for Apple's OS X operating system and various improvements including:

• Better error handling while performing multi-threaded operations
• Backing up to a remote server using the rsync engine no longer copies the files locally first, and uploads them directly to the server instead
• Old backups on remotes server are now cleaned
• Fixed a bug which occurred if /etc/crontab did not exist

For downloads, see the fwbackups project page.

A public git repository for fwbackups is now available on github! If you'd like to grab a copy of the current repository, just run:

git clone git://github.com/firewing1/fwbackups.git

If you are interested in seeing what's coming soon, you can view the C++ rewrite by switching to the 'cplusplus' branch.