Create Synchronicity 5.1

Hi Create Synchronicity users!

It is my great pleasure today to announce the 14th release of Create Synchronicity, now in version 5.1 (r1045) :) This new release, which you can download from http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/update.html , brings a new threading system, improved scheduling (with an option to catch up missed backups), a few cosmetic changes, and three new translations (to Danish, Estonian, and Polish). The scheduling engine has reached a high maturity level, with more complex settings available, and many command line options have been created, allowing for use on production servers, and in complex usage patterns.

Since last release, our little community has enjoyed a steady growth, with an increase in downloads count over the last few months (Kudos to the people who contributed by translating and submitting patches or feature requests, and huge thanks to the people who donated since 5.0!), and made frequent apparitions in the blogosphere, especially on German blogs. Create Synchronicity was among the 15 new programs this year on the German Open Source DVD (http://www.opensource-dvd.de/), and has been adopted by some mid-size companies in the world to make their backups.

Finally, with this new release, Create Synchronicity is moving to a new philosophy regarding donations: although you can still donate in the usual way, I’ve created a new donation option, in the form of a new year’s fundraiser to go to a nice restaurant; if you want to show your appreciation to this little app, chipping in could be a creative way of doing so :) Find out more at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/new-year-2011.html if you want : )

Should you have any requests, questions, suggestions or remarks about Create Synchronicity, please feel free to write to me; I’ll be glad to assist =) Information on how to contribute can be found at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/contribute.html.

Thanks for using Create Synchronicity,
Merry Christmas, and happy new year,
Clément Pit--Claudel (Create Software)