RPMs and source tar ball are available for following platforms at
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html

- Red Hat Enterprise server 4,
- Red Hat Enterprise server 3
- Suse Linux Enterprise 9,
- Suse Linux Enterprise 10,
- Open Suse 10.0,
- Fedora Core 3,
- Fedora Core 4,
- Fedora Core 5 and
- Source RPM

You can find the updated man pages and documentation in http://wiki.zmanda.com/

Thanks,
Paddy

On 9/5/06, Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

 Hello,

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

 Source tar ball can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda
 or http://www.amanda.org

 If you find bugs or have feature requests, please submit a bug report on
 sourceforge in the group v2.5.1.

 If you successfully use 2.5.1,  please post your success reports to
 http://forums.zmanda.com.

 For list of 2.5.1 features and changes and documentation, see
 http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/2.5.1_features

 The list of new features in 2.5.1 beta releases:


Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
Open SSL encryption support
Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh authentication
methods.
Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command (same
syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for compatibility
with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old amidxtaped/amindexd
protocol.
Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and are also
classified based on Amanda configuration name.
Amanda command changes

amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test. Use
amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
-o command option to override Amanda configuration. Seeamanda man page for
details.
amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when aentry is not found
in the configuration file.
Amanda configuration file changes

amanda.conf changes:

amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple backup runs in a calendar
day.
holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values: NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in amanda.conf for ssh/rsh
authentication.
New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf. Different client
configuration file can be used for each Amanda configuration.

gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in Amanda client
configuration file - amanda-client.conf
.amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.

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Amanda documentation: http://wiki.zmanda.com
Amanda forums: http://forums.zmanda.com