v3.4 - Smells like SnapRAID Spirit

Version 3.4

Finally, version 3.4 is here! This is a major update that brings a lot of long-awaited features and improvements, especially regarding notifications, security, and overall system compatibility.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed for this release!

Major Changes

Apprise Integration

The biggest addition in this release is the support for Apprise. This utility allows the script to send notifications to over 100 services (Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.) much more reliably than before.

• Multi-target notifications: You can now target multiple services at the same time.

• Enhanced Reports: You can attach the full report in case of failures for services that support it, like Telegram and Discord.

• Apprise Email: You can now use Apprise to send email reports, providing a great alternative to avoid mailx incompatibility issues.

• Automatic Installation: The script manages Apprise installation via pipx to ensure you have the latest version without conflicting with your system's python environment.

• Notification services deprecation: since Apprise provides better functionality and reliability, I am deprecating support for:

  • Stand-alone Telegram and Discord.
  • Custom Notification Hook.

  Please make the switch to Apprise. Deprecated services will keep working but I will not be maintaining them any more, and eventually remove them in the future.

Improved Script Robustness & Elevation

To make the script more reliable and easier to use, several foundational changes have been made to how it handles permissions and arguments:

• Centralized Root Elevation: The script now features a one-time, centralized root elevation logic. If it’s not run as root, it will automatically attempt to elevate itself using sudo, ensuring all operations have the necessary permissions without requiring you to remember to type sudo every time.

• Advanced Argument Handling: Added proper command-line argument parsing. You can now use --config <path> to specify a custom configuration file or --force-sync to bypass thresholds directly from the CLI.

• Logic & Security Checks: Many under-the-hood logic and security checks have been added to prevent common points of failure and ensure the script behaves predictably in various environments.

Configuration Changes

• New Extension: Following user suggestions, the configuration file extension has been changed from .sh to .conf.

• New Config Required: As this release introduces several new variables, you will need to move your preferences over to the new script-config.conf file.

New Features

• Ignore Files: You can now decrease counts by ignoring specific files based on their path. This is great for preventing frequently changing files from breaching your thresholds. This ignore logic only applies to the script count system, not to SnapRAID.

• Sync Integrity Check: The script now includes a check using snapraid status to ensure that the previous SnapRAID sync completed successfully before proceeding with a new job.

• Custom Hook Timing: Added an option to execute the last custom hook before spinning down drives.

Improvements & Fixes

• Better Binary Detection: SnapRAID is now located using the system PATH instead of hardcoded values.

• OMV7 Support: Improved the logic for discovering SnapRAID configuration files on OpenMediaVault 7 and later.

• Large Count Handling: Fixed an issue where very large file counts in diff were not being parsed correctly.

• Mail Handling: Improved mailx version detection and added a fallback to sendmail if an incompatible version of mailx is detected. I still recommend using Apprise in this scenario.

• UTF-8 Support: Set the email character set to UTF-8 to ensure special characters are displayed correctly.

• Filename Spaces: Fixed handling of spaces in filenames within the SnapRAID configuration.

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What's Changed

• Fix a few typos and convert all whitespace to be consistent by @StephenWetzel in #110
• bugfix chk_updated function by @selfishbrat in #107
• Version check logic change by @tehniemer in #103
• Add ignore logic by @tehniemer in #104
• Skip trying to install packages if dpkg isn't installed by @StephenWetzel in #111
• Fallback to using sendmail if an incompatible version of mailx is ins… by @StephenWetzel in #112
• Trim file modified warnings by @Izumiko in #115
• Revert "Trim file modified warnings" by @auanasgheps in #117
• fix get_counts() not parsing large diffs by @desertwitch in #114
• Trim file modified warnings by @Izumiko in #118
• Add the option to execute the last custom hook before spinning down drives by @DonkeeeyKong in #120
• Set character set for email to UTF-8 by @DonkeeeyKong in #123
• use snapraid status to check if previous sync was completed by @auanasgheps in #119
• Update code to build array of content files by @jeff47 in #147
• Switch to bash glob matching which should be more user friendly by @Wastus in #150
• Script v3.4 - Push dev to master by @auanasgheps in #155

New Contributors

• @StephenWetzel made their first contribution in #110
• @selfishbrat made their first contribution in #107
• @Izumiko made their first contribution in #115
• @desertwitch made their first contribution in #114
• @jeff47 made their first contribution in #147
• @Wastus made their first contribution in #150

Full Changelog: v3.3.2...v3.4