A better, more stable way to install and update the database tables. Previous versions were using the database installation and update code in Joomla! itself which was notoriously buggy and resulted in erratic behaviour. In this release we use our own database installer / updater for the base tables of our component. Unfortunately, due to the rules in the Joomla! Extensions Directory, we still have to rely on Joomla!'s code for the administrator menu item creation which may cause no menu item appearing under components on very few sites. We are aware of it, we know how to fix it, but we are not allowed to on penalty of being permanently banned from the directory!
Show the update information in the control panel page. In the previous version we introduced the integration with Joomla!'s own extensions updater. Unfortunately you could no longer see the update information in the component's control panel page. This version fixes it and allows you to force-reload the update information if you need to as Joomla! no longer lets you do that in the latest 3.x versions (for no good reason, really).
Better workaround for the misbehaving auto-complete feature of certain browsers (e.g. Safari). Some browsers would auto-complete passwords even when we specifically told them not to, by means of the autocomplete="off" attribute. Regrettably, Safari and some Firefox extensions ignored that with the effect of ending up with an ANGIE password when you didn't expect one to be set. This was frustrating to our users who thought it's a bug with our software. Thankfully, we found a good Javascript-based workaround! Also, whenever you are using an ANGIE password, Akeeba Backup will warn you – just in case your fingers slipped.
CLI script to receive update notification and, optionally, auto-update our software. You can use this script in a CRON job. It will send you update notification emails and, if you enable the option, automatically update our component to the latest version as soon as it's made available.
Backup progress is shown in the browser tab. If your browser supports setting the tab's icon we will show you the backup progress as a tiny pie chart in the browser tab icon. This is useful when you're running backups of several sites in different tabs and you want to see at a glance which ones are already finished.
...and a lot more minor improvements and bug fixes.