Rdiff-backup

=== Changes

* CHG: multimedia files with extensions ogv, oga, ogm and mkv aren't
compressed any more.
* CHG: Rename CHANGELOG to CHANGELOG.md, format to markdown and fix
references, closes 279
* FIX: handle properly include/exclude files with Windows/DOS endings,
closes 357

=== Authors

* Eric L
* Jannis
* Patrik Dufresne

=== Changes

* CHG: return error code 2 instead of number of failed files during
repo verification to have a consistent return code (1 would be any
other kind of error, or 0 if everything is well), closes 338
* FIX: Added backticks to `<file>` in develop docs so missing word is
shown, closes 303
* FIX: allow again to backup from and to Windows shares, closes 337
* FIX: avoid bytes/str object issue under MacOS/X while checking forks
FS abilities, closes 320
* FIX: avoid charmap encoding errors during logging on Windows due to
extended characters, closes 344
* FIX: avoid IndexError: string index out of range error when using
accentuated characters in exclude/include patterns, closes 340
* FIX: avoid test error when using librsync >= 2.2 by adding -R rollsum
to rdiff call in librsynctest, closes 304
* FIX: fail with meaningful error message on metadata mirror files with
duplicate timestamps, closes 322
* FIX: sequence of exception leading to abort when logging tuple of
bytes because of unreachable directory, closes 310
* NEW: Create a new rdiff-backup-delete script which can remove a file
and all its history from a backup repository (use with care).
* NEW: option --allow-duplicate-timestamps to only warn about duplicate
timestamps in metadata mirror files, use this option with care and only
to clean an impacted backup repository.
* DOC: add Fedora and RHEL to installation instructions, and evoke
Raspbian, closes 316
* DOC: Update installation steps to make them clearer to users
* DOC: improved installation and contributors documentation
* DEV: clarify version tag pattern and their influence on releases,
closes 326
* DEV: much better automated installation of Windows development VM via
Vagrant/Ansible
* DEV: errorsrecovertest test script to test recovering from old errors.

=== Authors

* albert-github
* dominicraf
* Eric L
* Otto Kekäläinen
* Patrik Dufresne
* Trevor Harmon

=== Changes

* FIX: Add workaround to avoid error when backup directory is under the
source directory (see issue 296), there is a warning but the backup
can succeed.
* FIX: bytestotime() should return None on decode failure (Closes 295)
* NEW: add a unit test for bytestotime() in order to avoid a regression
like issue 295.

=== Authors

* Eric L
* zjw

=== Changes

* FIX: UpdateError: Updated mirror temp file does not match source,
Closes 237
* CHG: Add new logo and improve visual appeal of the README (Closes:
286) (287)
* NEW: Add Windows developments documentations, closes 220
* FIX: do not fail when starting with uid/gid equal to maximum, avoid
OverflowError on os.chown

=== Authors

* Eric L
* Patrik Dufresne
* zjw

=== Changes

* FIX: remove too specific Debian packages from GitHub deployment,
closes 263
* NEW: add a new tool to help generate the changelog (description in
DEVELOP.md)
* DOC: new release rules and procedure added to docs/DEVELOP.md
* FIX: avoid double unquoting of increment file infos, closes 266
* FIX: versioning of Debian packages follows without glitch the overall
tag based versioning.
* DEV: automate via Travis deployment pipeline release to PyPI and Test
PyPI.
* FIX: remove some more ugly bytes output in strings using _safe_str,
closes 238
* FIX: added and moved hardlinks were not correctly counted and
restored, Closes 239
* FIX: rdiff-backup complained about missing SHA checksums of
hardlinks, Closes 78
* FIX: avoid int is not iterable error when calling remote command on
Windows
* DEV: flake8 checks only setup.py, src, testing and tools code.
* NEW: add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to override the build date,
making reproducible builds possible.
* NEW: sparse files are handled more efficiently, if not compressed and
depending on file system

=== Authors

* Bernhard M. Wiedemann
* Eric L
* Otto Kekäläinen
* Patrik Dufresne
* Stefan Seyfried
* zjw

Different bug fixes, improvements in code and documentation - too many to list (Andreas Olsson, Andrew Foster, Arrigo Marchiori, bigbear3001, davekempe, David I.
Lehn, elMor3no, Eric Lavarde, Frank Crawford, Jiri Lunacek, joshn, Josh Soref, mestre, Oliver Lowe, orangenschalen, Otto Kekäläinen, owsla, Patrik Dufresne, Reio Remma, Rodrigo Silva, Stefan Seyfried, Wes Cilldhaire, zjw)

Add automated of different package formats (Otto Kekäläinen, Arrigo Marchiori, Eric Lavarde)

Add RDIFF_BACKUP_VERBOSITY environment variable (Eric Lavarde)

Add support for Python 3.5 to 3.8, remove support for Python 2.x (Eric Lavarde)

Fix OverflowError on 64-bit systems when backing up symlinks with uid or gid above INT_MAX.
Thanks to Michel Le Cocq for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Start using Unicode internally for filenames.
This fixes Unicode support on Windows (Josh Nisly)

Don't print "Fatal Error" if --check-destination-dir completed successfully.
Thanks to Serge Zub for the suggestion.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Allow --test-server option to be combined with --restrict.
Thanks to Nick Moffitt for reporting the error.
Closes Ubuntu bug 349072.
(Andrew Ferguson)