Release candidate for v1.5.2 (Aug. 8, 2024)

[buhtz]

Summary

This version fixes urgent bugs from the previous version causing crahes when using languages Spanish, Basque or Icelanding. Thank you to @Caramelitosis for reporting this.

Installation

This release contains the source code only but no distro packages. To install the new release from the source code please follow our build & installation instructions.

Known major issues open

• qt_probing.py may hang with high CPU usage when running Back In Time as root via cron (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1592)
• File permissions handling and therefore possible non-differential backups (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/988 & https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/994)

Changes

• Fix(translation): Correct corrupt translated strings in Basque, Islandic and Spanish causing application crashes (#1828)
• Fix: Ensure crontab with ending newline (#781)
• Build(translation): Language helper script processing syntax checks on po-files

[Caramelitosis]

I can confirm that the translation problem is solved in this version, everything seems to work fine.