Merge pull request #3: Release 0.9.0-beta.1

Release 0.9.0-beta.1

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,51 @@ All notable changes to NG Backup are documented here. The format follows
 own `info.xsd` doesn't allow a `-alpha`/`-beta`/`-rc` suffix there); the stability stage is instead
 carried by the git tag, the release, and this file.
 
+## [0.9.0-beta.1] - 2026-10-07
+
+First beta. Tested thoroughly and usable **alongside** your current backup, but **not yet a
+drop-in replacement** for it. We test what we can ourselves (Nextcloud 32–35, SQLite, MariaDB and
+PostgreSQL, S3, SFTP, FTP, SMB and NFS), but we need field experience from other setups: please
+report what works and what doesn't, especially on large instances and on storage providers not
+listed in the README.
+
+### Added
+- Disaster recovery: `occ backup:key:import` and `occ backup:restore:full` restore the database,
+  data directory and config onto a fresh installation of the same major version.
+- Per-user backup and restore via user_migration: `occ backup:user:backup` and
+  `occ backup:user:restore` (replace the account after a safety export, or restore as
+  `<uid>-bak`), also onto a server where the user does not exist yet. The commands ask before
+  installing user_migration (or take `--install-user-migration`).
+- Checksum audit: `occ backup:verify`, shallow or `--deep`, for snapshots and per-user exports.
+- Retention for per-user exports: `occ backup:retention --user-last=N`.
+- FTP and SMB covered by the integration tests; NFS through the `local` backend on a mounted share.
+- `docs/HOWTO.md`: step by step from setup to a tested restore.
+- Warnings when a backup finishes with unreadable files or folders, or with files that kept
+  changing while being read (log, `occ`, notification, snapshot).
+
+### Changed
+- `backup:restore:full` refuses on an installation with more than one user and asks first;
+  `backup:user:restore --mode=replace` asks before deleting an existing account (`--force` for
+  scripts in both cases).
+- A failed scheduled backup is retried at most three times a day, an hour apart.
+- The recovery kit carries the deletion delay; the kit file is created owner-only.
+- Adding a location through the web API needs password confirmation.
+
+### Fixed
+- Exports of users whose id contains `.part-` could be deleted by cleanup on remote locations.
+- Cleanup no longer frees the data of a per-user export whose manifest is missing.
+- Crash safety of moving snapshots to and from the trash, of catalog writes by concurrent
+  backups and per-user exports, and of short uploads.
+- A file that keeps changing no longer makes a backup restart forever.
+- Long restores and exports keep their lock on the location alive.
+- Floating-point database columns are dumped exactly.
+
+### Known limitations
+See "Known limitations" in the README: memory use on very large instances, never two servers
+writing to one location, removing a passphrase slot does not revoke access, no rollback detection
+before a disaster recovery, and a few smaller points. None of them block the road to 1.0.0; they
+are on the backlog in `PLAN.md`.
+
 ## [0.1.0-alpha.1] - 2026-10-05
 
 First public alpha. Feature-complete for phase 1: scheduled, encrypted, incremental backups, and
@@ -43,4 +88,5 @@ and not implemented yet.
 - See the "Storage backend experiences" section of the README for provider-specific quirks found
   so far (e.g. Hetzner Storage Box sub-accounts).
 
+[0.9.0-beta.1]: https://github.com/dillardblom/ng_backup/releases/tag/v0.9.0-beta.1
 [0.1.0-alpha.1]: https://github.com/dillardblom/ng_backup/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha.1

appinfo/info.xml

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
     <id>ng_backup</id>
     <name>NG Backup</name>
     <summary>Encrypted, incremental backups of your Nextcloud with restore from the web interface</summary>
-    <description><![CDATA[Alpha: feature-complete for scheduled, encrypted, incremental backups to
-S3/SFTP/WebDAV/local, with restore of files and folders from the web interface and occ. Meant for
-testing on a copy of production (dev, test, staging) -- not yet for production use, and full
-disaster recovery is not implemented yet. See the recovery kit section of the README before
-relying on this for anything.]]></description>
-    <version>0.1.0</version>
+    <description><![CDATA[Beta: scheduled, encrypted, incremental backups of the database, config and data
+directory to S3, SFTP, WebDAV, FTP, SMB or a local path, with restore of files and folders, of
+single users (via user_migration) and of the whole server onto a fresh installation. Tested
+thoroughly and usable alongside your current backup, but not yet a drop-in replacement for it.
+See the README for known limitations and the recovery kit before relying on it.]]></description>
+    <version>0.9.0</version>
     <licence>agpl</licence>
     <author>Dillard Blom</author>
     <namespace>NgBackup</namespace>