Akeeba Backup 3.2 (stable) just released
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Backup 3.2 (Stable) release. This release adds amazing new features and solidifies the support for the shiny new Joomla! 1.6 release.
This release comes with a reworked, much cleaner user interface which integrates perfectly with your administrator template. A wealth of new features is added to the Professional release, allowing management of files stored on Amazon S3 and remote FTP servers. The integrated restoration can now restore a backup of your site to any server, as long as you have FTP access to it. Configuration in the Professional release is now stored encrypted with the AES-128 standard, ensuring that your passwords are safe. Finally, on popular request, users of the Professional release can now import archive files to the Administer Backup Files page so that they can use them with the integrated restoration feature. Additionally, a total of four dozens of minor bug fixes have been applied since 3.1.5, making Akeeba Backup 3.2 even more stable – even on IIS hosts where it traditionally suffered.
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As always, Akeeba Backup Core is available free of charge from our downloads section. You can find its documentation in PDF format for off-line reading in the downloads section, or you can view it on-line. All users are strongly advised to read our Quick Start Guide, available as a PDF file from our downloads section.
If you want the most powerful features, such as storing your backup archives on the cloud (Amazon S3, DropBox, CloudFiles, Microsoft Windows Azure), transfer them to a different server by FTP/FTPS, exclude extensions with a single click, apply powerful filters and have an integrated restoration feature, it's time to Go Professional. Subscriptions start at 40€ and give you access to free upgrades for a whole year, while allowing you to install and use the software on an unlimited number of domains and continue to do so even after the expiration of your subscription.
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Changelog
~ Improved Joomla! 1.6 language handling~ Now using Akeeba Live Update to handle component updates
# The post-processing directory volatile key could "stick" causing issues when changing the post-processing engine.
# Using the Integrated Restoration feature caused a window with an "undefined" URL to open 5 seconds after the extraction was complete
# The backup notification module was not being translated in Joomla! 1.6
# The backup notification module was not automatically activated in Joomla! 1.6
# CRITICAL Immediate post-processing of archive parts was corrupting the archives
# Multipart uploads to S3 would cause immediate post-processing of archive parts to fail
# Files and Directories Exclusion page would be empty due to JSON.parse. I now use eval() instead.
# Akeeba Backup Professional: running backup.php and altbackup.php using PHP-CGI would lead to no command line parameters being taken into account
# Symlinks to directories could not be excluded from the backup when "Dereference symlinks" was turned off
# Occasionally, part files could not be deleter or renamed. Now all backup archives are created with 0666 permissions to work around that.
# PHP 5.2 on IIS will return a copy of the object when $o = Factory::method() is used instead of $o =& Factory::method()
# Lazy Scheduling plugin: the language file wouldn't be loaded on Joomla! 1.6
# Restoring a Joomla! 1.6 site would result in an error message about the administrator email address
# PHP 5.3.3+ would throw an E_WARNING because Joomla! doesn't set the default timezone on systems where php.ini doesn't specify a timezone setting
# error_log files (created on cPanel hosts) may change their size during backup, causing a corrupt archive or backup failure. Akeeba Backup now automatically excludes them from the backup set.