[BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.2.0 released

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

BackupPC 4.2.0 <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.2.0> has
been released on Github.

The changes since 4.1.5
<https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.1.5> are listed
below.  The biggest change is a new feature in the web interface
written by @moisseev
that allows prior backups to be deleted.

Enjoy!

Craig

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# Version 4.2.0, 8 Apr 2018
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Merged pull requests #160, #190.

* Backups can now be deleted via the CGI interface, written by @moisseev
  (#160).

* bin/BackupPC_backupDelete: added -L option that puts output into client
  LOG file, to support CGI backup deletion.

* Added support for a user-editable comment per host, via a new
ClientComment
  config parameter, requested by @andrewmaksymowsky.

* bin/BackupPC_tarExtract: Added support for pax headers, which smbclient
  uses for long file names

* bin/BackupPC_backupDelete: make sure directory exists when renaming tree
  from deleted backup.

* lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm: ignore empty output lines from smbclient;
  fixes issue #159.

* bin/BackupPC: improved several of the exit error messages.

* lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm: added shareName to RsyncArgs* argument
  substitutions; suggested by Alex Kobel.

* conf/BackupPC_stnd.css: removed import url('
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css....'
  suggested by @MartijnRas in issue #174.