Akeeba Backup Pro for J!3 8.3.3

Akeeba Backup Core is the most widely used open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server, making it ideal not only for backups but also for site transfers or even deploying sites to your clients' servers. Akeeba Backup creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer similar in function to the standard Joomla...

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New features

• Allow using [REMOTESTATUS] in the email subject, not just the body
• Joomla restoration: modify domains in the Admin Tools' Allowed Domains and server config maker features if necessary

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Backing up as SQL: the query for finder_taxonomy does not use the correct prefix
• [HIGH] Backing up to SQL: indices would not have the correct table name prefix
• [HIGH] PHP fatal error on PHP 8 if the output directory does not exist...

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Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Wrong RewriteBase set up in the .htaccess Maker when restoring a Joomla site with Admin Tools Professional installed

Miscellaneous changes​

• PHP 8.1 compatibility changes

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Changelog​

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Uploading to OVH is broken on many servers not using a proxy
• [HIGH] Wrong RewriteBase set up in the .htaccess Maker when restoring a Joomla site with Admin Tools Professional installed

Miscellaneous changes​

• Make it clearer that you need Akeeba Backup 9 on Joomla 4.

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New features​

• Option to set a really large PHP memory limit during backup
• Restoration: ANGIE now applies very high memory and execution time limits to prevent some timeout / memory outage issues on most hosts.
• Restoration: ANGIE now warns you if you leave the database connection information empty

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] The JPS archiver would show warnings about unreadable files when archiving directories without any files in...

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Changelog​

New features​

• Much improved FTP functions for uploading backup archives and transferring sites
• OneDrive for Business: you can now use Drives other than your personal
• Upload to Azure BLOB Storage now supports chunked uploads, files up to 190.7TB (up from 64Mb)

Bug fixes​

• [MEDIUM] OneDrive: Uploads may fail if they are between 4Mb and 100Mb

Miscellaneous changes​

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Changelog​

New features​

• Support for custom Amazon S3 regions

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Pagination in the Manage Backups page was broken

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Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Cannot connect to databases on localhost using the default named pipe
• [MEDIUM] Custom Amazon S3 regions would not work with custom endpoints

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New features​

• Restoration: Warn about missing mysqli / PDO MySQL and REFUSE to proceed

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Cannot download file from Amazon S3
• [LOW] PHP Warning when backing up a database (purely cosmetic issue)

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New features​

• Restoration: Warn about missing mysqli / PDO MySQL and REFUSE to proceed

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Cannot download file from Amazon S3
• [LOW] PHP Warning when backing up a database (purely cosmetic issue)

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New features​

• More informative error messages for database connection issues during restoration

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Invalid SQL dump if we cannot get the create commands for a function, procedure or trigger
• [LOW] Restoration: You were shown separate port and socket options which were not taken into account
• [MEDIUM] Possible infinite loop on PHP 8 during DB restoration if a SQL file is missing
• [MEDIUM] Restoration...

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New features​

• Upload to Swift: Support for Keystone v3

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] "Test FTP connection" button was not correctly applying the passive mode

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New features​

• ANGIE for Joomla: reset session and cache options in Site Setup
• Support for ShowOn to conditionally show options in the Configuration page

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Single part uploads to Azure stopped working

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Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Quota settings and emails are not processed at the end of the backup process

Miscellaneous changes​

• Better warnings about CRC32 for ZIP files on 32-bit versions of PHP

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temerario said:

The best. But what exactly are the advantages of the Pro version compared to the Free. Is it really worth it?

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New features​

• Allow installation on all Joomla 4 versions so you can uninstall the package in some uncommon cases
• Option about including the latest backup in remote quotas

Removed features​

• Removed the PHP version warning. Joomla already warns you about EOL versions of PHP.

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] ZIP Archiver, invalid CRC32 calculated for some small files in the installation folder

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Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] BackBlaze B2 single file uploads were broken
• [LOW] Restoration: Wrong message about the emial address when the administrator passwords don't match
• [MEDIUM] Restoration. Administrator email appears as "undefined" in the Site Setup page

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Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Some password managers prevent successful submission of the Site Setup page (you get an error about a missing email address)
• [LOW] Push messages may be untranslated strings when a backup is taken over the API or the frontend backup URL

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