[Dar-news] dar release2.8.6 is available

[Denis C. <dar...@fr...>]

Hi,

source package and windows binary for release 2.8.6 are available at:

     https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/files/dar/2.8.6

As an alternative to Sourceforge you can fetch source and windows
binary packages but also fully featured dar_static binaries for Linux 
from the _low bandwidth_ https server at:

     https://dar.edrusb.org/dar.linux.free.fr/Releases

Package signatures are available at:

     http://dar.linux.free.fr/sign/v2.8.6
     https://dar.sourceforge.io/sign/v2.8.6
as well as beside the source packages at
     https://dar.edrusb.org/dar.linux.free.fr/Releases

Author's keys are available on public key servers and on dar websites:

     http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/authentification.html
and
     https://dar.sourceforge.io/doc/authentification.html

Release 2.8.6 brings several bug fixes which are detailed in the extract
of the Changelog below.

Thanks to Jim Avera for bug report

Cheers,
Denis Corbin

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from 2.8.5 to 2.8.6
- fixing bug met when restoring backup in dry-run mode (--empty option)
   where dar inappropriately tries to set file-system specific attributes
   to files while they have not been restored, leading to error message.
- Changed the way the configure script reports to dar/libdar whether the
   support for large files (>2GB) is available. This was necessary using
   autoconf-2.72: the older method was using cached variables which has
   been removed and that were not considered part of the official API
   autoconf provides. This change  does not impact already packaged
   source code nor the way dar behaves (display only issue).
- fixed bug in dar_xform met when resizing archive format older than 08
   (release 2.4.0), leading to an wrong size of slices after the first
   one and to an unreadable archive due to a wrong offset to find a given
   data or metadata in the archive.
- fixing bug in isolation process that let libdar using as number of
   threads for compression, the number of thread to use for encryption.
- adding the slicer.py DUC file to have dar filling a disk by an integer
   number of slices and waiting for the user to change of disk when
   almost full. So one can easily store a dar backup on variable size
   disk sets.
- fixing self reported bug at hash_fichier.hpp line 105, occurring when
   disk space is full and user refuses to continue when dar paused and
   waits for an answer.
- Dar now fails if an overwriting policy (-/ option) is used with -Q
   option and without the -w one.