As we've hinted in various posts here, there's a lot of exciting new stuff coming up in 3.2:
- multiple simultaneous tapers (!!) - LEOM support (lossless splitting) - new, simpler splitting parameters - massive amvault improvements - retirement of most old changers - a great deal of code cleanup and bug fixes - (hopefully) per-client recovery permissions - (hopefully) SSL authentication On a personal note: I've enjoyed working on Amanda, and hopefully served the project well, but the time has come for me to move on. I've accepted a position with Mozilla, and that means, sadly, a significant reduction in the time I have to spend on Amanda. In the interests of giving me a chance to fix some of the bugs I have introduced during my time here, we will be building a beta version of 3.2.0 on Wednesday the 29th. Since I will only be around for two weeks afterward, it is critical that we get as much testing as possible on this beta. I know Gene and Stefan are already debugging the bleeding edge, and I very much appreciate their hard work. It would be great if the rest of the "regulars" on the list could set aside some time and a virtual machine or other test environment for next week. Lest you were thinking of celebrating - you're not completely rid of me! It's my turn to practice what I've been preaching for so long: contributing to Amanda in spare time. I will keep submitting patches to Amanda, and I will continue to provide technical advice to other contributors on IRC and on the amanda-hackers list. To keep my sanity, though, I will have a much lower profile on this mailing list. This is a great support community, and I expect that to continue unabated in my absence! I'd also like to extend my gratitude to Zmanda for funding, supporting, and making public my work, and that of others, on Amanda. I know the company, through the work of Jean-Louis and others, will continue its dedication to Amanda and I expect to see more exciting new developments in upcoming versions. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com