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Fast, secure backup program for local, remote, and cloud storage.

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Verified 2026-08-23 from restic GitHub releases.

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15 stable release records

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  1. 0.19.1restic 0.19.1

    Changelog for restic 0.19.1 (2026-07-05)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  2. 0.19.0restic 0.19.0

    Changelog for restic 0.19.0 (2026-06-09)

    securitydeprecationremovalfeaturefix
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  3. 0.18.1restic 0.18.1

    Changelog for restic 0.18.1 (2025-09-21)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  4. 0.18.0restic 0.18.0

    Changelog for restic 0.18.0 (2025-03-27)

    securityremovalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  5. 0.17.3restic 0.17.3

    Changelog for restic 0.17.3 (2024-11-08)

    securityfix
    Official release ↗
  6. 0.17.2restic 0.17.2

    Changelog for restic 0.17.2 (2024-10-27)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  7. 0.17.1restic 0.17.1

    Changelog for restic 0.17.1 (2024-09-05)

    securityremovalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  8. 0.17.0restic 0.17.0

    Changelog for restic 0.17.0 (2024-07-26)

    securitydeprecationremovalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  9. 0.16.5restic 0.16.5

    Changelog for restic 0.16.5 (2024-07-01)

    feature
    Official release ↗
  10. 0.16.4restic 0.16.4

    This release works around and improves detection of a bug in the compression library used by restic. The resulting issue only happens when using restic 0.16.3 and the `max` comp…

    featurefix
    Official release ↗
  11. 0.16.3restic 0.16.3

    This release fixes a couple of bugs on Windows and in the `restore` command. It also works around an unlikely yet possible situation with `rclone` which could potentially result…

    featurefix
    Official release ↗
  12. 0.16.2restic 0.16.2

    restic 0.16.2 restores support for ARMv5 which was accidentally not included in the previous one, and also fixes missing documentation on [Read the Docs](https://restic.readthed…

    featurefix
    Official release ↗
  13. 0.16.1restic 0.16.1

    restic 0.16.1 has been released! It contains a few usage and cosmetic improvements, but also one bugfix for a very unlikely but still possible data corruption issue when using t…

    featurefix
    Official release ↗
  14. 0.16.0restic 0.16.0

    restic 0.16.0 has been released!

    securitydeprecationremovalknown issuefeaturefix
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  15. 0.15.2Restic 0.15.2

    We're very pleased to present you restic 0.15.2! This is just (another) small bugfix release.

    securityknown issuefeaturefix
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