+ Release Notes for amanda-2.6.1
+
+amgtar, amstar, amsamba, amzfs-sendrecv
+ Four new programs implementing application-api.
+ Swithching from the program "GNUTAR" to the application "amgtar" have some
+ advantage:
+ - amgtar use by default the gtar --atime-preserve=system option, you must
+ disable it if you gtar relase doesn't have that option.
+ - Can be configured to cross filesystem.
+ - Can be configured to not check the device number on newer gtar
+ (--no-check-device of gtar).
+ - You can configure error message from gtar you don't want to see in the
+ report.
+
+amzfs-snapshot, script-email
+ Two new scripts implementing script-api.
+ The 'zfs-snapshot' script must be used only with the 'amgtar' application.
+
+amarchiver
+ New program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
+
+New perl Module:
+ Application (perl utility functions for Applications)
+ Archive (Perl access to the amanda archive library)
+ Constants (perl access to build-time configuration values)
+ MainLoop (Perl interface to the Glib MainLoop)
+ Process (interface to process), used by amcleanup.
+ Script (perl utility functions for Scripts)
+ Tapelist (Manipulate the Amanda tapelist)
+ Xfer (Xfer-api)
+
+
+ Release Notes for amanda-2.6.0
+
+amcheckdump
+ New program written entirely in perl, it replaces 'amverify' and
+ 'amveryfyrun'
+
+amcryptsimple, amgpgcrypt
+ New encryption plugins based on gpg.
+
+amserverconfig, amaddclient
+ New Initial Amanda configuration tools, these tools make assumptions,
+ please see man page.
+
+Deprecated programs
+ 'amverify' and 'amveryfyrun' are deprecated -- use amcheckdump.
+ 'amdd' and 'ammt' are also deprecated. If you have scripts that use
+ them, then you must rewrite them in perl using the new perl modules.
+
+Configure options
+ --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require shared library.
+ Instead, use --with-static-binaries to build staticailly linked binaries.
+ --with-amlibdir, libraries are now installed in $amlibdir
+ --without-amlibdir : amlibdir=$libdir
+ --with-amlibdir=yes : amlibdir=$libdir/amanda (default value)
+ --with-amlibdir=/path/to/libdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libdir
+ --with-amlibexecdir, internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir
+ --without-amlibexecdir : amlibdir=$libexecdir
+ --with-amlibexecdir=yes : amlibdir=$libexecdir/amanda
+ (default value)
+ --with-amlibexecdir=/path/to/libexecdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libexecdir
+ --with-amperldir, Where to install perl modules
+ --without-amperldir : amperldir=$amlibdir/perl
+ --with-amperldir=yes : amperldir= $(perl installsitelib)
+ (default value)
+ --with-amperldir=/path/to/perldir : amperldir=/path/to/perldir
+
+Path changes
+ Libraries are installed in $amlibdir (previously $libdir)
+ Internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir (previously $libexecdir)
+ You must change your inetd/xinetd config for the new amandad path.
+ The amandad path change affect rsh/ssh auth, amanda-2.6.0 installations
+ will need to add an 'amandad_path' parameter to configuration files in
+ order to talk to older versions of Amanda:
+ amanda-2.6.0 client -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server: add
+ 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to
+ /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf
+ amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client -> amanda-2.6.0 server: add
+ 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path)
+ to /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf
+ amanda-2.6.0 server -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client: add
+ 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to the
+ dumptype
+ amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server -> amanda-2.6.0 client: add
+ 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path)
+ to the dumptype
+ The amandates files is now $localstatedir/amanda/amandates, previously it
+ was /etc/amandates, this file must be created on all client.
+
+usetimestamps
+ It now defaults to 'yes'.
+
+Glib
+ glib is required to compile and run amanda.
+ It is free and can be downloaded form http://www.gtk.org/download/
+
+Device API
+ The Device API is a complete rewrite of all tape-access functionality.
+ To use the Device API, all devices must be specified by their full
+ name, e.g., tape:/dev/nst0. Existing functionality is now available
+ in the tape, file, and rait devices, and a new Amazon S3 backend named
+ 's3' is also available.
+
+Perl Module
+ Link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda applications in Perl
+ Available Modules:
+ Changer (Execute changer scripts)
+ Cmdline (Parse command line argument)
+ Config (Parse config files)
+ Device (device-api)
+ Debug (Write to debug files)
+ Logfile (Parse log files)
+ Tapefile (Parse tapelist file)
+ Perl modules are installed in $amperldir
+
+local security driver (auth)
+ Allows backups of the Amanda server without any need for network
+ configuration, and similarly allows amrecover to work on the Amanda
+ server without any network configuration.
+
+make installcheck
+ Almost 200 unit tests are available, which should be run on an installed
+ copy of Amanda. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Testing for more
+ information.
+
+flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled, taperflush
+ These three config options allow to better fill your tapes.
+ They are what was known as the taperstart/taperflush feature.
+
+
+ Release Notes for amanda-2.5.2
+
+IPv6
+
+ IPv6 support is enabled by default if your OS support it, if your OS is
+ not working correctly with IPV6, you can disable it at configure time
+ with '--without-ipv6'.
+
+readblocksize
+
+ This option is useful only if you configured amanda with a big
+ '--with-maxtapeblocksize' and your hardware can't works with big block
+ size.
+
+
Release Notes for amanda-2.5.1
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