Barman 1.4.1 released

5 May 2015: 2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of version
1.4.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release fixes a few outstanding bugs and does not
introduce any new features.

For a complete list of changes, see the "Release Notes" section
below.

Links

* Website: http://www.pgbarman.org/
* Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
* Documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation/
* Man page, section 1: http://docs.pgbarman.org/barman.1.html
* Man page, section 5: http://docs.pgbarman.org/barman.5.html
* Support: http://www.pgbarman.org/support/
* pgespresso extension: https://github.com/2ndquadrant-it/pgespresso

Release notes

* Fix for WAL archival stop working if first backup is EMPTY (Closes: #64)
* Fix exception during error handling in Barman recovery (Closes: #65)
* After a backup, limit cron activity to WAL archiving only (Closes: #62)
* Improved robustness and error reporting of the backup delete
command (Closes: #63)
* Fix computation of WAL production ratio as reported in the
show-backup command
* Improved management of xlogb file, which is now correctly fsynced
when updated. Also, the rebuild-xlogdb command now operates on a
temporary new file, which overwrites the main one when finished.
* Add unit tests for dateutil module compatibility
* Modified Barman version following PEP 440 rules and added support
of tests in Python 3.4

Download

* Release Notes: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.4.1/
* Sources:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.4.1/barman-1.4.1.tar.gz/download
* RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 5:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.4.1/barman-1.4.1-1.rhel5.noarch.rpm/download
(dependencies: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/rhel5-deps/)
* RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.4.1/barman-1.4.1-1.rhel6.noarch.rpm/download
(dependencies: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/rhel6-deps/)
* PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/barman/1.4.1
* pgespresso on PostgreSQL Extension framework (PGXN):
http://pgxn.org/dist/pgespresso/
* pgespresso RPM/Debian packages:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/pgespresso/
* Online documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation
* PDF documentation:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.4.1/barman-tutorial.en.pdf/download

About Barman

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open source
administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers
written in Python. It allows your organisation to perform remote
backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and
help DBAs during the recovery phase. Barman's most requested features
include backup catalogues, incremental backup, retention policies,
remote backup and recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files
and backups.

Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3.
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Gabriele Bartolini - 2ndQuadrant Italia - Managing Director
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it | www.2ndQuadrant.it