RPMs and source tar ball are available for the following platforms at
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
- Red Hat Enterprise server 5,
- 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,
- Fedora Core 6,
- Fedora Core 7

2.6.0 features: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/2.6.0_features

Hopefully, these packages will help in trying out the images before
the final release.

Paddy

On Jan 17, 2008 4:47 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
>  The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of
> Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b1 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape
> handling code (Device API).
>
>  It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
>
>  We hope to release the final 2.6.0 soon. We appreciate if you can test it
> before the release, even a simple compilation can be useful to find problem
> on some hardware/software, report all compilation warning.
>
>  Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.0b1 (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.
> '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.
> 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 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools
> these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
> Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
> 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.
> 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
>
> amanda.conf changes
>
> flush-threshold-dumped
> flush-threshold-scheduled
> taperflush
> device_property
> usetimestamps default to yes
>



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