Download Our Latest Software

Akeeba Backup for Joomla! 8.0.5 Stable

Released on: 2021-05-23 19:00 CDT

What's new

Removed Upload to pCloud. We have removed the “Upload to pCloud” feature. It was impossible to authenticate accounts using Two Factor Authentication due to an issue on their end. A request about that was never replied to. Furthermore, using its end to end encrypted “Crypto” folder was impossible with their published API, essentially denying usage of its main selling point to third party software. Given these constraints we considered the integration to not meet our quality criteria and had no option but to remove it.

Only show failed backups' log files in ALICE. We've always documented that ALICE should only be used with failed backups. If you were to use it with successful backups it would produce invalid results because it starts with the assumption that your backup has a problem. Unfortunately, many people ignored that documented warning and ran ALICE against the log files of successful backups. This was frustrating for them and for us who had to spend time repeating our documentation. We have now addressed this problem by only showing you the log files of backup attempts which are definitively failed.

Stealth Mode support in integrated restoration. Using the integrated restoration to restore a backup without using the ANGIE Password feature could lead to your site's visitors viewing the restoration interface which can be confusing or even problematic (the restoration interface displays your database connectio information). Kickstart has had the Stealth Mode feature since 2008 to work around. We are now bringing it to the integrated restoration as well.

Bug fixes and minor improvements. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG below.

Joomla! and PHP versions supported

Please consult our Compatibility page. It explains our version support policy and lists which versions of our software are compatible with which versions of Joomla and PHP.

Changelog

New features

  • Only show failed backups' log files in ALICE
  • Stealth Mode support in integrated restoration

Removed features

  • Removed Upload to pCloud

Bug fixes

  • [LOW] Fixed fatal error while sending backup email notification under certain server configuration
  • [LOW] MySQL spatial data might be impossible to restore if there is a collation mismatch between the origin and target server.
  • [LOW] PHP 8 could still throw an error while backing up under some rare circumstances
  • [LOW] PHP warning when the site's root is in an absolute root subdirectory (e.g. /site instead)
  • [MEDIUM] Backend backup may fail when using multiple profiles with different output directories.