Akeeba Backup 3.0.a4 (Alpha 4) is out. The new version fixes critical operational bugs which may corrupt your database backup. If you have installed 3.0.a3 you must upgrade immediately.
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Backup Core 3.0.a4 and Akeeba Backup Professional 3.0.a4. This version addresses a critical operational bug which can corrupt your database backup and which has been introduced in 3.0.a3. If you have installed 3.0.a3 you must upgrade immediately. You can download Akeeba Backup Core for free in our download section. If you are not an English speaker, you may want to take a look at the translations as well. If you get stuck, you're welcome to post to our Free Support Forum (a free user registration is, of course, required to post to the forum).Have you seen our new documentation yet? It's an illustrated User's Guide which walks you through all operations possible with the component. It's available for free, noth on-line and in a professional quality, 97-pages PDF file for off-line viewing or printing. Please save some trees; don't print the whole User's Guide :)If you are a subscriber to the Akeeba Backup Professional edition, you can download the update through the My Downloads section after logging in. If you are not a subscriber yet, you may want to find out more about it and become one. This way you'll also be helping us raise the necessary funds to continue the development of this software.
Changelog
This is the short list of changes since Akeeba Backup 3.0.a3:
Bug fixes
- CRITICAL: some tables would not be backed up in 3.0.a3
- If a system plugin got to load a conflicting jQuery version BEFORE Akeeba Backup's supported scripts, it would cause the GUI to fail. A hack is now in place.
- If the password contained both left & right angle quotes, e.g. pa<sswo>rd, Multiple Database Definitions would fail to connect to the database during testing or save the record properly.
- If the password contained both left & right angle quotes, e.g. pa<sswo>rd, Akeeba Backup Installer would fail to connect to the database
- Database table filters wouldn't work
- Database table filters wouldn't work on PHP installations without the JSON module loaded.
- File and directory filters wouldn't work on PHP installations without the JSON module loaded .
- Deprecated notice thrown in akeeba/platform/joomla15/drivers/joomla.php