Kopia v0.8
https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/v0.8.4.
This version brings many performance, usability and stability improvements and several new and exciting features.
There were over 150 changes by 19 contributors which represents a big growth in community engagement.
New Features:
- Full Maintenance is now enabled by default with an interval of 24 hours.
- Added support for configurable Maintenance Safety to speed up cleanups in certain cases.
- Added support for
--json
flag to certain CLI commands which will produce machine-readable snasphot, policy, manifest, blob and content responses. - Added support for scanning only one filesystem via files policy
- Major improvements to ignore logic to better follow .gitignore rules.
- Added support for Actions which allow running custom scripts before and after a directory is snapshotted with lots of useful applications.
- Added support for ACLs which allow defining custom access control rules for repository server clients.
- Docker Images are now available
- Support for write sessions, which ensure garbage collection does not prematurely delete blobs that are in the middle of being uploaded by intermittently-connected clients (e.g. laptops that go to sleep often and can’t checkpoint frequently enough)
- Added support for stdin snapshots.
- Added support for user authentication using user profiles stored in the repository (#809)
- Brand new streaming GRPC protocol for talking to kopia repository server to improve performance and ensure session stickyness, which allows sharding and load-balancing.
- Reworked error handling when taking snapshots to not fail fast (except when explicitly requested).
- Switched to new FUSE implementation which supports MacFUSE 4.x
- Added WebDAV-based mounting alternative for platforms that don’t have working FUSE mechanism.
- Streamlined flags for caching and improved cache sweep.
- Major performance improvements when performing lots of index lookups in heavily-fragmented indexes (speeds up snapshot verification by orders of magnitude)
- Passthrough options to allow other-users access and mounting in empty directory.
- Don’t run maintenance as part of read-only actions.
- Implemented caching for contents downloaded from Kopia Repository Server
- Reduced latency for kopia repository server uploads by performing existence checks
- Improvements to
snapshot verify
to make output easier to understand. - compress: upgrade klauspost/compress to v1.11.12 (#888)
- Terminal password prompt - switched to golang.org/x/term (#898)
New KopiaUI features:
- Added new tab called
Tasks
which shows the status, progress, logs, and statistics of current and past long-running tasks (restore, estimate, snapshot, maintenance). - Streamlined snapshot creation flow to include estimation and initial policy definition.
Provider improvements:
- S3 client - upgraded minio to v7
- rclone - testing improvements
- S3, GCS, Azure, B2 - rewrote retry logic to retry on all but known fatal errors.
- S3 - support for buckets configured with object locking
Infrastructure:
- Build for Apple Silicon (M1) is now available. The CLI is now dual-architecture
and runs natively on both
amd64
andarm64
. - Switched CI/CD infrastructure to GitHub actions with two self-hosted runners for ARMHF and ARM64
- Makefile: various tricks to make PR builds faster
- S3: run tests against private minio deployment in docker (#894)
- SFTP: fixed retry logic
- RClone: improved error handling logic
Compatibility Information
- v0.8 release is compatible with repositories created with v0.7, v0.6 and v0.5.
- While older clients can read repositories created with v0.8 it’s recommended to use the latest version at earliest convenience.
Breaking Changes
-
When starting
kopia server
with--htpasswd-file
, the UI access is now only granted to a user namedkopia
(if it exists in the password file). If such user does not exist in the password file,--server-username
flag may be specified to indicate which of the users listed in the password file gets UI access (there can be only one). See https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/880 for more information. -
Added explicit
--insecure
flag tokopia server start
to prevent accidentally starting non-secured servers for development. Starting the server without TLS or without authentication now requires this flag. -
Several low-level maintenance tools have been changed to support individual parameters with
--safety=full|none
flag instead of specific parameters which were unsafe.