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v1.14.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 15d Backup & Recovery

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Summary

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Dashboard now shows overdue missed backups and fixes restoring files with [ or ] in names on Windows.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Feature
Feature	Medium	Add Korean and Polish translations. Add Korean and Polish translations. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Reflect backup status in the tray icon. Reflect backup status in the tray icon. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Redesign summary dashboard for reassurance-first UX. Redesign summary dashboard for reassurance-first UX. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Dependency	Low	Upgrade restic to version 0.19.1. Upgrade restic to version 0.19.1. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix
Bugfix	Medium	Allow multihost sync to use real HTTP/2 (h2) over HTTPS. Allow multihost sync to use real HTTP/2 (h2) over HTTPS. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Display 'overdue' missed backups on the dashboard. Display 'overdue' missed backups on the dashboard. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Enable restoring single files with [ or ] in names on Windows. Enable restoring single files with [ or ] in names on Windows. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Set proper rclone path for Homebrew installations. Set proper rclone path for Homebrew installations. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Strip double quotes from sftp.args flags to avoid restic parse errors. Strip double quotes from sftp.args flags to avoid restic parse errors. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Retry initial web UI config load before showing error screen. Retry initial web UI config load before showing error screen. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15 Confidence: high	—

Full changelog

1.14.0 (2026-07-12)

This release includes a restic version upgrade to https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.19.1

Features

add translations for Korean and Polish (f158f4a)
reflect backup status in the tray icon (#1255) (63ab468)
reassurance-first redesign of the summary dashboard (#1258) (9b1760a)

Bug Fixes

allow multihost sync to use real h2 (rather than h2c) when using https (d641593)
apply bug fixes found by e2e webui tests (b4fb7ad)
batch of webui fixes, update webui deps, apply formatter, and regen protos (03e69c9)
dashboard displays 'overdue' missed backups (bfe5712)
deflake syncapi test race between sendManfiest and oplog subscription (0e31b76)
http/1.1 limit on long polling connections prevents >3 tabs from receiving operation streams (ff16822)
more summary dashboard bug fixes (222aa1c)
more summary dashboard UI refinements (800a985)
per-plan retention disabled when repo forgetPolicy schedule is disabled (39d9a3d)
restore: restore single file with [ or ] in name on Windows (#1254) (91d76ac)
set proper path to allow using rclone from brew install (#1222) (3c16096)
strip double quotes from sftp.args flags to prevent restic parse error (#1237) (ccddf37)
sync errors due to buffer reuse when streaming large batches of operation data (680df5e)
toaster ui text isn't selectable (058b4a0)
tray status icon behavior with respect to pending operations (4d675d1)
update backresthandler's SummaryDashboard endpoint to support new summary view (53eb340)
update translations (3c1953e)
use filepath.Join everywhere for windows compatibility (6d5d800)
webui: retry initial config load before failing to the error screen (#1265) (5bebac3)
work on tech debt cleanup (58b83c0)

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