Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
2.5.0.   It is a significant milestone in Amanda project.

It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda
or http://www.amanda.org

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ChangeLog file for more details.

Changes in release 2.5.0

- Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
- Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil and
  gpg encryption),  Encryption can be done on server or client, Custom
  encryption utilities can be used.
- Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a really
  useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE.  You can
  use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
  and so on.
- Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
  longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape).  Data
  restoration can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
- Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.


If you find bug in this release, please submit a bug report on
sourceforge in the group v2.5.0.

If you successfully use 2.5.0,  please post your success reports to
http://forums.zmanda.com.

For documentation, you can see http://wiki.zmanda.com
or http://www.amanda.org/docs