[[!tag obnam announcement]]

I have just released version 1.13 of Obnam, my backup program. See the website at http://obnam.org for details on what it does. The new version is available from git (see http://git.liw.fi) and as Debian packages from http://code.liw.fi/debian, and uploaded to Debian, and soon in unstable.

The NEWS file extract below gives the highlights of what's new in this version.

Version 1.13, released 2015-08-01

Bug fixes:

• Lukáš Poláček found and fixed a repository corruption problem: if obnam forget was interrupted at the wrong moment, it might remove a chunk, but not the reference to it. This would case a future run of obnam forget to crash due to a missing chunk (error code R43272X). obnam forget will now ignore such a missing chunk, since it would've deleted it anyway.

  Lars Wirzenius then changed things so that chunk files are only removed once references to the chunks have been committed.

Improvements:

• obnam forget now commits changes after each generation it has removed. This means that if the operation is committed, less work is lost. Suggested by Lukáš Poláček, re-implemented by Lars Wirzenius.