* Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> [20080401 14:33]:
> Hello,
> 
> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2.

It takes courage to release on April 1st!
And I suppose this is meant to be 2.6 :)

I'd love to test but how to I get glib > 2.2.0? On my production
systems running Debian/Etch all I have is glib 2.12.4-2 and I don't
see any backport for it. Even Sid is at 2.16 I believe.

Where can I get a version that meets the requirement to compile
amanda-2.6 so that I can start testing it in my environment?

jf

> 
> 
> Source tarballs are available from
> 
>    * http://www.amanda.org
>    * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
> 
> Binaries for many systems are available from
> 
>    * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
> 
> Documentation can be found at
> 
>    * http://wiki.zmanda.com
> 
> 
> 
> Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file):
> Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
> 
>    * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules
>      require shared libraries.  Use configure --with-static-binaries to
>      build statically linked binaries.
>    * New --enable-kitche-sink flag: calls the plumber when you kitchen
>      sink is backed up.
>    * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
>    * new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
>    * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
>    * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/"
>      subdirectories: libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and
>      internal programs are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda. If you
>      mix 2.6.0 and earlier version with rsh/ssh auth, you need to add
>      an 'amandad_path' to the dumptype and to amanda-client.conf.
>    * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
>      $localstatedir/amanda/amandates.  You may want to move your
>      existing /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
>    * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
>    * New amenigma - WWII enigma machine encryption.  Super duper secure.
>    * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration
>      tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
>    * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
>          o Speedup in 'amrecover find' and starting amrecover.
>    * glib is required to compile and run amanda.
>    * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting
>      tapes, vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
>    * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing
>      Amanda applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default
>      in the perl installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
>      'configure --with-amperldir'.    * New 'local' security driver
>      supports backups of the amanda server without any network
>      connection or other configuration.
>    * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
>    * Amanda configuration file changes
>          o amanda.conf changes
>                + flush-threshold-dumped
>                + flush-threshold-scheduled
>                +  taperflush
>                +  device_property
>                +  usetimestamps default to yes
> 
> 
> Jean-Louis Martineau
> 

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