Release candidate for v1.5.2 (Aug. 8, 2024)

[buhtz]

Summary

This version fixes urgent bugs from the previous version causing crahes when using languages Spanish, Basque or Icelanding. Thank you to @Caramelitosis for reporting this.

Installation

This release contains the source code only but no distro packages. To install the new release from the source code please follow our build & installation instructions.

Known major issues open

• qt_probing.py may hang with high CPU usage when running Back In Time as root via cron (qt5_probing.py makes xorg.bin run with high CPU usage, eating RAM #1592)
• File permissions handling and therefore possible non-differential backups (New permissions handling in 1.2.0 causes re-backup of files that haven't changed #988 & Files with permissions r--r--r-- being repeatedly backed up #994)

Changes

• Fix(translation): Correct corrupt translated strings in Basque, Islandic and Spanish causing application crashes (Error when clicking on the backintime-qt as root configuration/profile button #1828)
• Fix: Ensure crontab with ending newline (backintime root crontab doesn't run (missinng line-feed 0x0A on last line bug) #781)
• Build(translation): Language helper script processing syntax checks on po-files

[Caramelitosis]

I can confirm that the translation problem is solved in this version, everything seems to work fine.