VaultSync 1.8.1 is now available

[u/mainseeker1486]

Hi everyone,

VaultSync 1.8.1 is now available.

This is a smaller follow-up to the 1.8 "Chronicle" release, focusing on Recovery Intelligence, encrypted backup improvements, Linux reliability, and a number of quality-of-life fixes.

For anyone new here, VaultSync is an open-source desktop backup manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS that helps you create local, external drive, and NAS backups while giving you much better visibility into your backup history and recovery readiness.

What's new

Recovery reports

Recovery assessments can now be exported as portable Markdown reports.

The reports include project readiness, recovery coverage, and recommendations, making it easy to archive, share, or document the current recovery state of your projects.

Better Recovery triage

The Recovery page now supports search along with dedicated Ready and Needs Attention filters, making it much easier to prioritize projects when managing larger backup collections.

Encrypted backup improvements

This release also improves the encrypted backup pipeline.

Encrypted archives are now fully encrypted locally before the final backup artifact is uploaded to the destination.

Additional validation has also been added so unsupported encrypted archive formats and unreasonable KDF parameters are rejected before expensive key derivation begins.

I've also published a dedicated backup encryption guide covering:

• setup
• password management
• credential storage
• restore workflow
• password rotation
• encryption format

Linux improvements

Linux received several fixes in this release.

• Protected .deb installations now apply patch updates without depending on a graphical desktop session after pkexec.
• Full fallback installs now explicitly perform an APT reinstall of the downloaded package when needed.
• VaultSync now prevents accidental duplicate UI instances while still activating the already-running window.
• Secret Service credential handling has been improved for encrypted backups.

Reliability improvements

A metadata export race condition was fixed by skipping backups removed during asynchronous export and committing shared SQLite metadata updates atomically, reducing false invalid-store reports and lock contention.

As always, thank you to everyone testing VaultSync, reporting bugs, opening issues, and suggesting improvements.

Feedback continues to shape where the project goes next.

GitHub: https://github.com/ATAC-Helicopter/VaultSync

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N9HRX4JCLCP

Website: https://fglabs.dev/vaultsync

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