Release 1.4.2

[ThomasWaldmann]

borgbackup 1.4.2

borg 1.4.x is kind of a refreshed 1.2 with mostly the same features and behavior, but a few bigger changes that could introduce issues and thus were not suitable for just releasing them as 1.2.x, but rather needed some testing first.

Long changelog:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/1.4.2/changes.html#version-1-4-2-2025-10-31

Short borg 1.4 overview (from a borg 1.2 perspective):

https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-1.4.html

Installation

If you use pip to install this, use: pip install "borgbackup==1.4.2"

For other installation methods and more details, please see: https://borgbackup.org/

See also the 00_README.txt file in the assets list below for a description of the available "fat binary" downloads.

Discussion: ...

Note: The binaries are built on github now and will come soon.

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This discussion was created from the release Release 1.4.2.

[halfgaar]

Are there going to be GPG signatures for all the binaries?

[ThomasWaldmann]

I thought about it and I will build an additional x86_64 borg 1.4.2 binary on the debian bullseye vagrant machine.

• built and signed locally
• only requires glibc 2.31, so it also runs on older linuxes

[ThomasWaldmann]

I use 2 hardware crypto keys for gpg, ssh, 2FA, ..., including github access to my personal account and borgbackup organisation. They are secured by a pin and require physical interaction for signing / logging in.

[FelixSchwarz]

Maybe we could use GitHub Artifact attestation: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/secure-your-work/use-artifact-attestations/use-artifact-attestations ?

[ThomasWaldmann]

@halfgaar I locally built/signed and uploaded the borg-linux-glibc231-x86_64* binaries.

@FelixSchwarz gh attestations see #9134.

[halfgaar]

Downloaded and verified with the gpg key I have on file 👍

[ThomasWaldmann]

I also added locally built/signed binaries borg-freebsd-14-x86_64*.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Please test the 1.4.2 intel macOS 13 binaries.

I likely can't build macOS 13 binaries anymore soon, see #9073.

[ThomasWaldmann]

The 1.4.2 Linux *-gh binaries did not have working FUSE support, I now released 1.4.3 to fix that.

Also, 1.4.3 now has a FreeBSD *-gh binary (also with FUSE support).

1.4.3 likely has the last macOS 13 Intel binary. Github is switching off these machines. I will try to build the macOS Intel binaries on whatever machine/OS they offer. #9073

1.4.3 discussion: #9206