borg

v1.4.5 Security

This release includes 1 security fix for security teams reviewing exposed deployments.

Published 8d Backup & Recovery

✓ No known CVEs patched

This release patches 1 known CVE

Topics

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Summary

AI summary

Low-severity security fix addressed in borgbackup 1.4.5.

Full changelog

Some fixes (including a low-severity security fix), some new features and other updates.

Long changelog:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/1.4.5/changes.html#version-1-4-5-2026-07-19

Short borg 1.4 overview (from a borg 1.2 perspective):

https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-1.4.html

If you use pip to install this, use: pip install "borgbackup==1.4.5"

For other installation methods and more details, please see: https://borgbackup.org/

See also the 00_README.txt file in the assets list below for a description of the available "fat binary" downloads.

Discussion: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/discussions/9915

Note:

*-gh binaries are built on GitHub now. These Linux and FreeBSD binaries do support borg mount(FUSE filesystem), but the macOS binaries don't (use our brew tap!).

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Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.