Akeeba Backup Pro for J!3 8.4.0

New features​

• Alternate Configuration page saving method which doesn't hit maximum POST parameter count limits
• Expert options for the Upload to Amazon S3 configuration
• Option to avoid using `flush()` on broken servers
• Remove MariaDB MyISAM option PAGE_CHECKSUM from the database dump
• Restoration: Automatically downgrade utf8mb4_900_* collations to utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci on MariaDB
• Restoration: Use transactions to speed up large table restoration
• Restoration: allows you to change the robots (search engine) option
• Self-hosted OAuth2 helpers
• Separate remote and local quota settings
• Support for uploading to Shared With Me folders in Google Drive
• Upload to OneDrive (app-specific folder)

Removed features​

• Remove CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER
• Remove the Joomla! version reminder

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Cannot transfer files to DreamObjects and Google Storage using the S3 API
• [LOW] Deprecation notice in Configuration Wizard
• [LOW] Restoration error when you have a newer Admin Tools version installed
• [MEDIUM] Tables or databases named `0` can cause the database dump to stop prematurely, or not execute at all

Miscellaneous changes​

• Change the wording of the message when navigating to an off-site directory in the directory browser
• Improve database dump with table names similar to default values
• Improved mixed– and upper–case database prefix support at backup time
• PHP 8.4 compatibility changes
• Prevent backup failure on push notification error

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Wrong mixed case detection
• [MEDIUM] Resetting corrupt backups can cause a crash

Critical bugs and important changes​

• FINAL VERSION FOR JOOMLA! 3

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Test FTP Connection does not work in the Configuration page

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Would not work on 32-bit versions of PHP
• [LOW] opcache_invalidate may not invalidate a file
• [MEDIUM] HTTP PUT might fail on some servers

New features​

• Support for files and archives over 2GiB (JPA file format 1.3)

Miscellaneous changes​

• Stops Joomla from lying about whether our software supports Joomla 4

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Joomla ShowOn is not available on ancient Joomla 3.9 builds (e.g. 3.9.0)

Miscellaneous changes​

• Disabled deprecated API methods
• Improve the Schedule Automatic Backups page

New features​

• Option to treat failed uploads as a backup error

• A packaging issue broke the restoration script in backup archives

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Some password managers prevent successful submission of the Site Setup page (you get an error about a missing email address)
• [LOW] Push messages may be untranslated strings when a backup is taken over the API or the frontend backup URL

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] BackBlaze B2 single file uploads were broken
• [LOW] Restoration: Wrong message about the emial address when the administrator passwords don't match
• [MEDIUM] Restoration. Administrator email appears as "undefined" in the Site Setup page