It has been far too long since our last update. It seems that when we get busy, the blog is the first to suffer. Hopefully, this will get better in the future.
So what's going on with the Retrospect development team?
We've been fixing bugs and working on localized language support. French and German are complete, and they'll ship early next week as part of an update to Retrospect 8.1 that will include more than 100 bug fixes.
After that, our next Mac release is scheduled for the end of the month. It will include support for Snow Leopard (restoring compressed files, fixes for UI issues, a package-based Mac Retrospect Client installer) and language support for Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. For many of these languages, this release will represent the first time that Retrospect for Mac is localized.
We have a third Mac release planned for later in the year. This release will have some new features that we're not quite ready to talk about yet, but one important addition will be a 64-bit version of Retrospect 8. This is particularly important because moving to 64-bit will allow Retrospect to address more than 4 GB of RAM, which will result in our being able to back up more files from a single volume.
This is a lot to do, and we'll have a Windows release in this timeframe, as well (which will be detailed in an upcoming post).
Retrospect 8 users: Watch for auto update notification early next week.
-Eric