nicotsx Release Notes

Warning

This is an early Zerobyte Desktop alpha, not an official stable release.

macOS Apple Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux x64. Expect rough edges and verify important restores independently.

The macOS build is unsigned. After dragging it to Applications, clear its quarantine attribute:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/zerobyte.app"

The Windows installer is currently unsigned, so Microsoft Defender SmartScreen may show a warning.

On Linux, make the AppImage executable before launching it:

chmod +x Zerobyte*.AppImage

New features

Added an Activity page with filterable history for many operations that are happening in the background. Entries include live status updates, outcomes, timing, and task details.

Backup jobs can now override their repository’s compression mode.

Improvements

Mirror synchronization now displays live progress and can be cancelled from the backup settings.

Settings have been re-organized into Personal, Organization, and Instance scopes into it's own sub-menu.

Table sorting preferences now persist across sessions.

Updated bundled rclone to 1.75.0 and Shoutrrr to 0.17.0.

Fixes

Restores from read-only volumes can no longer target the original location.

Empty retention policies are now consistently treated as disabled when creating or editing schedules.

The change-username CLI command now updates the account’s in-app displayed name.

New features

Restores can now be cancelled from the restore screen

Added an option for SFTP volumes to preserve symlinks with absolute targets or .. path components

Backup webhooks can now connect to trusted endpoints with self-signed TLS certificates

Improvements

Repository checks, snapshot deletion, and snapshot re-tagging run as background operations

Scheduled backups interrupted by restart are warned and are queued again

Updated Restic to 0.19.1

Fixes

Fixed long cron expressions overflowing schedule cards and backup details

Avoided showing an empty snapshot list while backup data loads

Restic has been upgraded to v0.19.0. Existing repositories do not require a migration. Check restic’s release notes

New features

Users can now create, view, and revoke API keys from account settings. Keys can have expiration dates, and can authenticate API requests for programmatic use or third party integrations. Thanks @nguyenquyhy for the help

Password login can now be disabled for SSO-focused deployments. @MannXo

Repository snapshot tables now support shift-click range selection for faster bulk snapshot actions. @Rajdave69

Improvements

Mirror/copy jobs now receive compatible custom Restic parameters from the parent backup setup, for example flags such as --pack-size.

Backup execution is less likely to contend with the UI on low-CPU systems.

Bug fixes

Backup retention policy fields can now be cleared when editing a schedule.

SMTP host values are trimmed before saving, avoiding accidental whitespace in notification settings.

Restoring files whose names contain square brackets now works correctly.

Backups no longer surface warning messages when Restic exits successfully with code 0

Restore trackpad swipe-back navigation @lyallcooper