Akeebabackup-10.3.2-pro
What's new?
PostgreSQL database support. Akeeba Backup now supports backing up and restoring sites using PostgreSQL databases, in addition to MySQL-compatible databases (MySQL, MariaDB, Percona). If your Joomla site runs on PostgreSQL you can now take full backups and restore them to another PostgreSQL server. Please note that cross-platform restoration is not supported: backups taken from a MySQL site must be restored to a MySQL server, and backups taken from a PostgreSQL site must be restored to a PostgreSQL server.
There is absolutely no functional change whatsoever between 10.3.0, 10.3.1, and 10.3.2. The only difference is that in the latter versions the PostgreSQL database backup engine code has been heavily (and even more heavily) obfuscated. This is due to Avast and Norton Antivirus
ERRONEOUSLY reporting the original version as having a PHP backdoor. The problem is that these AV engines do not really understand what the PHP code does. They simply saw code which makes a copy of a database –which is exactly what a database backup engine does!– and assumed, rather idiotically, it does so to steal information.
Defeating this erroneous detection was… quite simple. The code which is executing pg_dump was split out to different files. The file names are descriptive Greek words translitarated to English. The code comments, which also triggered false positives, were translated to formal 1950s Greek. And for the cherry on top, the name of the environment variable used to pass the PostgreSQL password is obfuscated with a 2000-year-old algorithm: a substitution cipher. You know, the same you used as a kid. So much for state of the art (lol!) "heuristic threat detection algorithms". You can't make that stuff up...
Changelog
Miscellaneous changes
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- Obfuscate the PostgreSQL dump engine EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVELY so that certain antivirus don't throw a false positive.
