Changelog for restic 0.19.1 (2026-07-05) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.19.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #5234: Prevent mounting over the repository directory Fix #5667: Skip inaccessible backup source paths Fix #5722: Update mount latest symlink after snapshot reload Fix #21866: Hide stats progress bar in JSON mode Fix #21869:…
Changelog for restic 0.19.0 (2026-06-09) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.19.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #2034: Support serving a restic mount of a Windows system via Samba Fix #4447: Use mode 0700 for repository directories created over SFTP Fix #4467: Exit with code 3 when some backup source paths do not exist Fix #4759: Error…
Changelog for restic 0.18.1 (2025-09-21) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.18.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #5324: Correctly handle backup --stdin-filename with directory paths Fix #5325: Accept RESTIC_HOST environment variable in forget command Fix #5342: Ignore "chmod not supported" errors when writing files Fix #5344: Ignore EOP…
Changelog for restic 0.18.0 (2025-03-27) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.18.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Sec #5291: Mitigate attack on content-defined chunking algorithm Fix #1843: Correctly restore long filepaths' timestamp on old Windows Fix #2165: Ignore disappeared backup source files Fix #5153: Include root tree when searching…
Changelog for restic 0.17.3 (2024-11-08) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.3 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #4971: Fix unusable mount on macOS Sonoma Fix #5003: Fix metadata errors during backup of removable disks on Windows Fix #5101: Do not retry load/list operation if SFTP connection is broken Fix #5107: Fix metadata error on Wi…
Changelog for restic 0.17.2 (2024-10-27) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.2 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #4004: Support container-level SAS/SAT tokens for Azure backend Fix #5047: Resolve potential error during concurrent cache cleanup Fix #5050: Return error if tag fails to lock repository Fix #5057: Exclude irregular files fro…
Changelog for restic 0.17.1 (2024-09-05) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #2004: Correctly handle volume names in backup command on Windows Fix #4945: Include missing backup error text with --json Fix #4953: Correctly handle long paths on older Windows versions Fix #4957: Fix delayed cancellation o…
Changelog for restic 0.17.0 (2024-07-26) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Fix #3600: Handle unreadable xattrs in folders above backup source Fix #4209: Fix slow SFTP upload performance Fix #4503: Correct hardlink handling in stats command Fix #4568: Prevent forget --keep-tags <invalid> from deleting al…
Changelog for restic 0.16.5 (2024-07-01) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.5 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary Enh #4799: Add option to force use of Azure CLI credential Enh #4873: Update dependencies Details Enhancement #4799: Add option to force use of Azure CLI credential A new environment variable AZURE_FORCE_CLI_CREDENTIAL=true allow…
This release works around and improves detection of a bug in the compression library used by restic. The resulting issue only happens when using restic 0.16.3 and the max compression level (the default auto and off compression levels are not affected), and when the source files being backed up have specific data in them to trigger the bug. If you use max compression, you can use restic check --rea…
This release fixes a couple of bugs on Windows and in the restore command. It also works around an unlikely yet possible situation with rclone which could potentially result in data loss. restic is distributed as a standalone binary: download the correct file for your operating system and architecture, extract the file and just run it. If you run into any issues, please report them at the GitHub i…