Release 2.0.0b22

[ThomasWaldmann]

borgbackup 2.0.0b22 beta release - do not use this on production backup repositories.

Big changes, this is the first release with PACKS! So, despite the "beta" release number, rather expect alpha quality / stability.

Read the full story about packs there: https://mrraj.dev/borg

Long changelog:
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0b22/changes.html#version-2-0-0b22-2026-07-22

If you use pip to install this, use: pip install "borgbackup==2.0.0b22"

Docs: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0b22/

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This discussion was created from the release Release 2.0.0b22.

[PhrozenByte]

Just wanted to leave some ❤️ here: b22 is an amazing release! It's a huge step forward and resolves a whole bunch of major, long-standing issues. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen! 🎉

Special thanks to @ThomasWaldmann for his countless improvements and fixes, @mr-raj12 for implementing packs, all the major work around them and various other improvements, @Goddesen for interval-based pruning, and @c-herz for the date: matcher - these are the contributions I followed most closely and that have the biggest impact on my own use cases, but the same thanks goes to everyone else whose small and big contributions I may have missed. You all did an incredible job, thank you! 🫶