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General Available (GA) Release of Relax-and-Recover Announcement

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) v2.8 will be released around Christmas 2024.

A pre-release version of ReaR v2.8 is available on our GitHub Releases page.

Master branch snapshot

The latest development snapshot is available via the GitHub download rear-master.zip link.

Or you can get a private source copy via:

git clone git://github.com/rear/rear.git

Snapshot Packages

You can find packages for many Linux distributions on our GitHub Releases - Snapshot page. Snapshots are automatically built for every Git commit to our master branch.

Distribution packages

Various Linux distributions ship Relax-and-Recover as part of their distribution, albeit not always the latest stable release. Here an overview how to get and install ReaR:

Fedora

dnf install rear

openSUSE

zypper install rear

RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux

yum install rear
dnf install rear

SLES

zypper install rear

openSUSE Build Service packages

If you are looking for newer stable releases, take a look at our recent builds in the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) project

OBS Archiving:Backup:Rear

To get ReaR packages from the openSUSE Build Service go to

https://software.opensuse.org/package/rear

or for maual selection of a specific ReaR package for a particular Linux distribution start at

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/Rear/

for example ReaR packages for openSUSE Leap 15.4 and SLES15 SP4 for x86_64 architecture are at

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/Rear/15.4/x86_64/

Future releases

Future releases are planned and communicated through Github milestones