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Coordinating the Upcoming Release

• Learn about the changes in this version

Known External Issues

• Spinners stop spinning after a while GNOME/gtk#4426
• Grey text can be blurred GNOME/gtk#3833 (closed)
• Selecting a folder can be flimsy GNOME/gtk#4020 (closed)
• Selecting an item from a drop-down might select the wrong one GNOME/gtk#2877
• Metered status for connections can be outdated flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#658
• Bringing the app to the front when clicking notifications doesn't always seem to work. Maybe related to GNOME/gtk#4334
• Folders that are not readable, can't be excluded from backup GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome#26
• Underline for mnemonics not visible (could be fixed by reverting 3c53c167) GNOME/gtk#4818 (reverted the commit)
• Systems installing Pika for the first time via Flatpak have to restart before being able to start the app flatpak#4849
• 0% finished message at the end of backup borg#6570
• Monitor does not autostart if enabled under xdg-dekstop-portal 1.14.0 to 1.14.3 xdg-desktop-portal#778

Blocking First Beta (released)

• #186 (closed)
• #189 (closed)
• #179 (closed)

Blocking Second Beta (released, not relevant for flatpak)

• #192 (closed)

Blocking Third Beta (released)

• Setup dialog password page
• Regex transfer is wrong
• #189 (closed)
• #194 (closed)
• #190 (closed)
• #191 (closed)

Blocking Fourth Beta (released)

• Setup: Error on adding local repo returns to wrong page
• #188 (closed)
• #200 (closed)

Blocking Fifth Beta (released)

• #187 (closed)
• #185 (closed)

Blocking Second Release Candidate (released)

• #209 (closed)

Will not be Fully Resolved

• #199

Instructions for Beta Testing

You should create a copy of your configuration first. Also, while I use the current beta version for my backups myself, no guarantees for anything. (Pika comes without any warranties anyways.)

$ cp -a ~/.var/app/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup/config/pika-backup ~/pika-backup-config

The beta version can be installed in parallel to the stable version

$ flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup.flatpakref

You can start a specific version via the command line

$ flatpak run org.gnome.World.PikaBackup//stable
$ flatpak run org.gnome.World.PikaBackup//beta

or set which version is used when started via the desktop

$ flatpak make-current org.gnome.World.PikaBackup stable
$ flatpak make-current org.gnome.World.PikaBackup beta