Release highlights

Desktop notifications: You will receive notifications on your desktop when the backup starts, issues a warning / error or finishes successfully. Please note that this feature requires a compatible browser. At the time of this writing Chrome, Firefox and Safari support desktop notifications.

UTF8MB4 (UTF-8 multibyte) support in restoration scripts: Supports databases able to display quad byte UTF-8 characters such as Emoji and the less common Traditional Chinese glyphs.

Bug fixes: There is a really important one affecting your ability to restore a backup if your old database password contains double quotes. Some minor issues and enhancements regarding remote storage services are also included.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Restoration might be impossible if your database passwords contains a double quote character
• [LOW] White page when the ak_stats database table is broken
• [MEDIUM] Dropbox and iDriveSync: could not upload under PHP 5.6 and some versions of PHP 5.5
• [MEDIUM] Fixed update script
• [MEDIUM] Immediate crash when the legacy MySQL driver is not available
• [MEDIUM] OneDrive upload could fail in CLI CRON jobs if the upload of all parts takes more than 3600 seconds
• [MEDIUM] Reupload from Manage Backups failed when the post-processing engine is configured to use chunked uploads

New features

• Desktop notifications for backup start, finish, warning and error on compatible browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox)
• UTF8MB4 (UTF-8 multibyte) support in restoration scripts, allows you to correctly restore content using multibyte Unicode characters (Emoji, Traditional Chinese, etc)
• You can create new backup profiles from the Configuration page using the Save & New button
• You can set the backup profile name directly from the Configuration page

Miscellaneous changes

• ANGIE (restoration script): Reset OPcache after the restoration is complete (NB! Only if you use ANGIE's Remove Installation Directory feature)
• Updated Import from S3 to use the official Amazon AWS SDK for PHP