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Version 2.10

• Support for GitHub Container Registry by @gaby in https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/pull/179
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 1 to 4 by @dependabot in https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/pull/180
• ssh add custom port option by @abbbi in https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/pull/181

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.9...v2.10

Version 2.9

• Fix: backup with compression enabled fails: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'dict' (#177)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.8...v2.9

Version 2.8

• Add packages compatible to fedora 39 to package build (#174)
• Show total saved disk size in human readable output (#173)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.7...v2.8

Version 2.7

• Update README
• End backup with warning if software emulated TPM device is attached (#169)
• Detect remote connection based on libvirt URI, checking hostnames could lead to situation where local backup is detected as remote backup (#170)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.6...v2.7

Version 2.6

• Fix IndexError exception if auth file is used in qemu uri (#167)
• Credential function for libvirt must return integer: fix NoneType exception if actual libvirt authentication is required.
• Simplify libvirt authentication code: attempt to use SASL based mechanism only if --user and --password options are set.
• If authentication fails because of missing SASL mechs, ajdust error message, provide hint for --user and --password options.
• Update README regards OVIRT/RHEV/OLVM (no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.5...v2.6

Version 2.5

• Move some log messages from info to debug loglevel
• Log information about libnbd version only once
• Catch command not found error during remote backup if qemu-img is missing: change loglevel to warning.
• Catch command not found error during remote restore: fail with proper error message.
• If no qcow image info has been created during backup, issue warning during restore that default options are used.
• Update README: add note about scratch files.
• Do not attempt to freeze filesystems if virtual machine is in paused state (#166)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.4...v2.5

Version 2.4

• Update RADME
• Add qemu-utils to package dependencies: if installed on a system without libvirt/qemu, backup fails because of missing qemu-img executable.
• Add openssh-client to package dependencies: required for remote libvirtd connection.
• Catch exception if executed commands such as qemu-img are missing on system.
• Code cleanup

Version 2.3

• Update README
• Add option -S (--start-domain): if specified and virtual domain is offline during backup, domain will be started in pause mode, allowing to execute full/diff/inc backups. Domain is destroyed as soon as operation finished by using libvirt's AUTODESTROY flag. (#164)
• Move code for preflight tests to separate module.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.2...v2.3

Version 2.2

• Fix Progressbar during restore: wrong values used. (#160)
• Catch exception if during restore connection to NBD server fails (#163)
• Provide better info message what NBD connection is waiting for.
• Call flush() on NBD connection during restore: restore of domains with multiple disks could fail with NbdConnectionTimeout due to race condition (#163)
• Pass pidFile to qemu-nbd process for local NBD server during restore, report PID of forked process instead of parent.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.1...v2.2

Version 2.1

• Fix Progressbar: Since change for issue #133 the Progressbar was updated with wrong values and as result progressed too fast for the amount of data actually written.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup/compare/v2.0...v2.1