Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release
of Amanda 2.5.1, the 2.5.1b2 release. It should be the latest beta
before the release of 2.5.1.

We plan to release the final 2.5.1 at the end of the august month.
Please, test this latest beta release and report all bug you can find.

It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120.

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.1b2 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details, you will alos
find usefull information on http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/2.5.1_features.

* amandates client config option.
* gnutar_list-dir client config option.
* dumptype holdingdisk get new value: NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED
* amgetconf doesn't write the BUGGY message.
* work with tar-1.15.91
* Open SSL encryption support
* amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
* amrecover_do_fsf default to yes
* amrecover_check_label default to yes
* amcheck -w will do all test including the tape writable test.
 use amcheck -t -w if you want only the tape writable test.
* usetimestamps
* bsdudp/bsdtcp, 2 new auth.
* Unlimited number of DLE on a client with bsdtcp/rsh or ssh auth.
* docs/howto-auth.txt
* amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys (for ssh/rsh)
* client config file (see man amanda-client.conf)
* amrecover use the security-api
* amoldrecover which use the old amindexd/amidxtaped protocol
* -o option to overwrite config option
 (see in man amanda, the CONFIGURATION OVERWRITE section)