## v2.2.0 - rc6 - 13/03/2023
  - Fixup bogus restic command line when empty tag lines were given
  - Added missing default value for ignoring cloud files in the example configuration
  - Made sure npbackup can run when no tkinter is installed (headless)

## v2.2.0 - rc5 - 03/03/2023
  - Fixed bogus restic command line when empty tag lines were given
  - Make sure the no config dialog stays on top
  - Make sure upgrade client checks current python arch instead of os arch
  - Make upgrade client catch referrer for /current_version calls
  - Upgrade python-i18n to a maintained version
  - Make sure we get the real IP when client downloads an upgrade and server is behind proxy server

## v2.2.0 - rc4 - 08/02/2023
  - Add gui popup when config cannot be saved
  - Make repo connection messages more clear
  - Remove default backup admin password from config
  - Fix empty restic results will make prometheus metrics fail

## v2.2.0 - rc3 - 07/02/2023
  - Auto minimize console window when run in GUI mode to not distract end user
  - Trigger GUI refresh after configuration changes
  - Main program now loads directly after first time GUI setup
  - A popup is now shown on non-readable repos
  - Various smaller fixes
  - Support for --config-file parameter in upgrade_server
  - Upgrade server now fetches the real client IP if behind a proxy
  - Upgrade server systemd service file example

## v2.2.0 - rc2 - 03/02/2023
  - Upgrade client now sends its hostname, group and version information to server
  - Add variable substitution in configuration
  - Add machine identification in configuration
  - Add variable ${RANDOM}[n] to config file in order to distinguish non unique hostnames
  - Refactor config variable handling
  - Make backup state and upgrade state messages more coherent
  - Fix config fails when restic password is an int
  - Fix empty config files did not show a proper error message
  - Fix various config file malformation will break execution
  - Fix backup hangs when no restic password is given (restic asks for password in backgroud job)
  - Fix error message in logs when repo is not initialized

## v2.2.0 - rc1 - 02/02/2023
  - Added a full auto-upgrade solution:
    - Aupgrade client integrated into NPBackup, that can be called manually via --auto-upgrade or automatically run every n backups
    - Upgrade server which servers files and their metadata
  - Added a gui to create a scheduled task under Windows
  - Added a gui to configure backup admin password (was compile time setting before)
  - Improved setup.py to provide launch scripts for both Linux and Windows platforms
  - Made windows cloud file filter optional (enabled by default)
  - Added default configuration settings
  - Rewrite configuration gui into a tabbed gui
  - Updated restic binary to restic 0.15.1 compiled with go1.19.5
  - Changed backup interval unit from seconds to minutes

## v2.1.0 - 29/01/2023
  - Added execution time information
  - Code cleanup
    - Refactor runner into a class
    - Refactor npbackup into package
    - Adding missing typing
    - Code is now formatted with black
    - Code must now pass pylint and flake8
  - Workaround for painfully slow sg.TreeData window.close()
  - Simplify npbackup shortcut
  - Shift default interval from 23H30 to 24H
  - Fixed missing translations for admin password popups

## v2.0.0 - 24/02/2023

  - First open public release
  - Refactor GUI so actions become non-blocking
    - Added loader animation for gui events
    - Added backup window with current state
    - Added internationalization support (currently en and fr)
  - Refactor restic.ls function to return a generator since restic ls command gives chunks of json, which is bad memory wise when parsing each chunk into a big list
  - On Windows, "The cloud operation is not supported on a read-only volume." and "The media is write protected." errors will not make backup fail, see #4155
    - This fix can be removed once #4155 is resolved, see # TEMP-FIX-4155 comment in restic_wrapper package
  - Added Additional backup parameter option
  - Added optional backup tags
  - Added optional prometheus group label and additional labels entries
  - Make sure backend connections number parameter works with all backends
  - Added priority configuration for restic operations, defaults to low priority to not disturb operations
  - Added WindowsApps folder (reparse points) to exclusion list (fix "The file cannot be accessed by the system." error)
  - Fixed backup did use verbose option twice
  - Updated restic binary to restic 0.15.0 compiled with go1.19.5 on windows/amd64
  - Made theme configurable
  - Make sure we exit all subprocesses when exiting npbackup
  - Improve config GUI for supporting elder config files properly
  - Fix restic metrics when 0 bytes of data have been added to the repo
  - Fix restoration must ignore case on Windows
  - Fix backup_job variable substitution in config file
  - Fix for ruamel.yaml global objects being modified out of current scope encrypting current config while saving
  - Fix npbackup could not start when no config file was present
  - Drastically improve ls operation speed by changing command_runner method from poller to monitor (no live output) except for backup operation
  - Compiler:
    - Compile python 3.7 and 3.10 targets so we also get to use Windows 7 which can't run python > 3.7
  - Installer:
    - Moved task creation process to npbackup so we can recreate tasks on systems where npbackup is already installed

## v1.8.0

  - Implement VSS support for Windows
  - Do not require UAC elevation for npbackup.exe (Still highly recommended, but at least we allow non admin users to backup their data (without VSS))
  - Search restic executable path when not found locally for both Windows and Linux platforms
  - Make exclusion lists always ignore case on Windows systems
  - Highly improve exclusion lists
  - Keep structure and comments in yaml configuration files
  - Simplify configuration file data encryption
  - Fix limit-download parameter not working
  - Fix error when rest_connections was set to 0
  - Add some config gui logging
  - Cosmetic gui fixes
  - Fix never enforce execution timeout on backup operation
  - Fix bogus filename encodings while showing backup contents / usernames
  - Added more restic metrics
  - Fixed bogus restric metrics
  - Allow setting additional prometheus labels
  - Fix gui snapshot contents don't show duplicate parents on Windows when backing up 'c:\foo' and 'C:\bar'
  - Internal code cleanup
  - Installer:
    - Make sure we don't overwrite destination configuration file if existing

## v1.5.3
  - First closed public release

## v0.1.0 - 1.5.2
  - Internal development and tests