rustic 0.5.0

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I am very happy to announce rustic 0.5.0!

This release not only includes a lot of new features but also builds the groundwork for future extensions. Windows support has been experimental added and will get seasoned in the next releases. Moreover, a rework of the archiver implementation will allow to use other backup sources than local dirs in future.

Changes in version 0.5.0:

Breaking changes:

• Repository options in the config file can no longer be given under the [global] section. Use [repository] instead.
• Backing up multiple sources on the command line now results in one instead of several snapshots.

Bugs fixed:

• restore command did not restore empty files. This is fixed.
• config command did save the config file compressed which violates the repo design. This is fixed.
• rustic did panic when files with missing content field are stored in a tree. This is fixed.

New features:

• Experimental windows support has been added.
• New option --filter-fn allows to implement your own snapshot filter using the Rhai language.
• New command dump has been added.
• New command merge has been added.
• Support for extended file attributes has been added.
• REST/Rclone backend: Allow to set the request timeout.
• Extra or wrong fields in the config file now lead to rustic complaining and aborting.
• New option --no-progress has been added.
• Option --progress-interval can now also be given as command argument and in the config file.
• backup: Paths are now sanitized from command arguments and config file before matching and applying the configuration.
• restore: Add --no-ownership option
• check --read-data: progress bar now also shows total bytes to check and ETA.
• The archiver implementation has been reworked. This will allow more backup sources in future.
• Updated to Rust 1.68 and many dependency updates

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