Restic 0.17.0 Released

Restic has announced the release of version 0.17.0 on July 26, 2024, following nearly a year of development. This update introduces significant enhancements, particularly to the restore command, which now includes features such as dry-run capability, in-place restoration with various overwrite modes, and a delete option. The prune command has also been optimized to use up to 60% less memory and is less write-intensive. Additional improvements include the ability to skip snapshot creation if no changes are detected, support for repositories with empty passwords, and FUSE-T support on macOS.

Other notable updates involve enhanced error handling, bitrot detection in the diff command, and improved performance for SFTP uploads and large file dumps. The release also adds new exit codes for repository issues, support for reading backup sources from standard output, and backing up to rest-server over a Unix socket. Furthermore, it includes support for AWS Assume Role with S3, generating NCDU file listings, and various configuration options for Windows backup processes.

The official binaries now require at least ARMv6 support on ARM platforms. The development team expressed gratitude to users for their feedback during the release process. Users can download the new version from GitHub, and those with version 0.9.4 or later can use the self-update command for an automatic upgrade.