Please allow me to announce the second release candidate preparing for version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie.<p><a href="https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2">https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-r...</a><p>Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems.<p>- EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and is schedule for removal in 2026.
- The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into "Remove & Retention", with improvements to the user manual section. Its behavior remains unchange.
- An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
- Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced state file.
- License and copyright information is now provided in machine-readable SPDX format, following the REUSE standard.
- See CHANGELOG for more details.