Akeeba Backup Pro for J!3 8.4.0

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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