fsarchiver-0.8.4 (2018-02-19)

ChangeLog

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 fsarchiver: Filesystem Archiver for Linux [http://www.fsarchiver.org]
 =====================================================================
-* 0.8.4:
-  - Added support for zstd compression algorithm (New option -Z)
+* 0.8.4 (2018-02-19):
+  - Added support for zstd compression algorithm (New option "-Z")
 * 0.8.3 (2017-12-22):
   - Implemented LZ4 compression (Contribution from Cristian Vazquez)
 * 0.8.2 (2017-08-22):

configure.ac

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 
-AC_INIT([fsarchiver], 0.8.4-git)
-AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_RELDATE], "YYYY-MM-DD", [Define the date of the release])
+AC_INIT([fsarchiver], 0.8.4)
+AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_RELDATE], "2018-02-19", [Define the date of the release])
 AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_FILEFMT], "FsArCh_002", [Define the version of the file format])
 AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_VERSION_A], 0, [Major version number])
 AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_VERSION_B], 8, [Medium version number])
-AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_VERSION_C], 3, [Minor version number])
+AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_VERSION_C], 4, [Minor version number])
 AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_VERSION_D], 0, [Patch version number])
 
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST([])

website/content/changelog/_index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ nameInMenu = "ChangeLog"
 draft = false
 +++
 
+* **0.8.4 (2018-02-19):**:
+  * Added support for zstd compression algorithm (New option "-Z")
 * **0.8.3 (2017-12-22):**
   * Implemented LZ4 compression (Contribution from Cristian Vazquez)
 * **0.8.2 (2017-08-22):**

website/content/installation/_index.md

@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ these files. Here are the required libraries:
 * libblkid (and libblkid-devel)
 * e2fsprogs-libs (e2fsprogs-devel)
 * [xz-utils](http://tukaani.org/xz/) (and xz-devel)
+* [zstd](https://facebook.github.io/zstd/) (and libzstd-devel)
 
 You can selectively disable support for missing libraries or header files. For example,
-on a system that lacks xz/lzma and lzo:
+on a system that lacks lzo and zstd:
 ```
-./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lzma --disable-lzo && make && make install
+./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lzo --disable-zstd && make && make install
 ```
 
 You can also use the static binary that provides support for all compression levels
@@ -42,8 +43,8 @@ and does not require the libraries to be installed on your system.
 To compile the sources, you have to run follow these instructions:
 
 #### Download the latest sources
-First, you have to download [fsarchiver-0.8.3.tar.gz]
-(https://github.com/fdupoux/fsarchiver/releases/download/0.8.3/fsarchiver-0.8.3.tar.gz).
+First, you have to download [fsarchiver-0.8.4.tar.gz]
+(https://github.com/fdupoux/fsarchiver/releases/download/0.8.4/fsarchiver-0.8.4.tar.gz).
 Just save it to a temporary directory.
 
 #### Extract the sources in a temporary directory
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ tar xfz /path/to/fsarchiver-x.y.z.tar.gz
 ```
 
 #### Compile and install from sources
-``` 
+```
 cd /var/tmp/fsarchiver/fsarchiver-x.y.z
 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 make && make install
@@ -140,13 +141,13 @@ pacman -S fsarchiver
 You should use these RPM packages that have been built for RHEL7 based
 distributions, that is the recommended way for most users:
 
-* [fsarchiver-0.8.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm](https://github.com/fdupoux/fsarchiver/releases/download/0.8.3/fsarchiver-0.8.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
+* [fsarchiver-0.8.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm](https://github.com/fdupoux/fsarchiver/releases/download/0.8.4/fsarchiver-0.8.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
 
 If you want to compile fsarchiver yourself, use the following instructions:
 ```
 yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel lzo-devel lz4-devel xz-devel e2fsprogs-devel libgcrypt-devel libattr-devel libblkid-devel
-tar xfz fsarchiver-0.8.3.tar.gz
-cd fsarchiver-0.8.3
+tar xfz fsarchiver-0.8.4.tar.gz
+cd fsarchiver-0.8.4
 ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
 ```
 

website/content/quickstart/_index.md

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ FSArchiver requires the file-system tools to be installed to save the filesystem
 attributes (when you do a **fsarchiver savefs**) and it also requires these tools
 to recreate the file-system when you do a **fsarchive restfs**. Anyway, you only
 need the tools of the current file-system to be installed. In other words, you
-don't require xfsprogs to be installed if you only work on an ext3 file-system. 
+don't require xfsprogs to be installed if you only work on an ext3 file-system.
 
 For these reasons, it's a good idea to run FSArchiver from an environment with
 all the system tools installed. The best environment is
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ when you don't know what is its device name.
 
 ## Command line and its arguments
 ```
-====> fsarchiver version 0.8.3 (2017-12-22) - http://www.fsarchiver.org <====
+====> fsarchiver version 0.8.4 (2018-02-19) - http://www.fsarchiver.org <====
 Distributed under the GPL v2 license (GNU General Public License v2).
  * usage: fsarchiver [<options>] <command> <archive> [<dev1> [<dev2> [...]]]
 <commands>
@@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ Distributed under the GPL v2 license (GNU General Public License v2).
  -x: enable support for experimental features (they are disabled by default)
  -e <pattern>: exclude files and directories that match that pattern
  -L <label>: set the label of the archive (comment about the contents)
- -z <level>: compression level from 0 (very fast) to 9 (very good) default=3
+ -z <level>: legacy compression level from 0 (very fast) to 9 (very good)
+ -Z <level>: zstd compression level from 1 (very fast) to 22 (very good)
  -s <mbsize>: split the archive into several files of <mbsize> megabytes each
  -j <count>: create more than one (de)compression thread. useful on multi-core cpu
  -c <password>: encrypt/decrypt data in archive, "-c -" for interactive password