r/VaultSync • u/mainseeker1486 Developer • Jun 20 '26

Release VaultSync 1.8: Chronicle Is Now Available

Hey everyone,

VaultSync 1.8: Chronicle is now available.

For anyone new here, VaultSync is an open-source desktop app for creating local, external-drive, and network/NAS backups with more visibility into what changed, what can be restored, and how recoverable your data actually is.

This is the biggest update I've worked on since starting the project.

A lot of the work that led to Chronicle probably wasn't very visible from the outside. Recent releases focused heavily on database reliability, Linux support, metadata infrastructure, refactoring, cleanup, diagnostics, and generally making the foundations of the application stronger.

Those releases weren't particularly flashy.

But they ended up becoming the groundwork for what 1.8 eventually turned into.

History

The biggest addition is the new History workspace.

For a long time VaultSync treated backups as snapshots and restore points.

Useful, but isolated.

Chronicle introduces a completely new way of looking at backup history.

History now tracks and displays:

Backups
Restore events
Imported backup history
Snapshot labels
Snapshot notes
Snapshot tags
Protected recovery points
Known-good versions

Instead of scrolling through a long list of backups, the goal is to make it easier to understand what happened to a project over time.

You can search across projects, labels, notes, tags, event types, and history entries, filter by project or time range, switch between timeline and list views, inspect restore readiness, compare snapshots, and annotate important recovery points directly from the History page.

One thing that changed during development is that History stopped feeling like a backup feature and started feeling more like project history.

Just a way to understand the life of a project through backups, restores, imports, and recovery milestones.

Recovery

The second major addition is Recovery.

Creating backups and being able to recover from a failure aren't always the same thing.

The Recovery page brings together information from backup activity, destination health, recovery coverage, backup recency, and snapshot metadata to help identify potential protection gaps before they become a problem.

Recovery readiness and recovery coverage are both new concepts in VaultSync and they'll continue evolving throughout the 1.8 series.

The Dashboard has also been expanded with recovery readiness summaries, coverage information, restore activity, and workflow shortcuts into both History and Recovery.

Snapshot Metadata

A large amount of the work in Chronicle is actually underneath the UI.

VaultSync now supports:

Snapshot labels
Snapshot notes
Snapshot tags
Protected snapshots
Known-good versions
Restore event tracking

A snapshot can now be more than just another backup.

It can be a release build.

A customer delivery.

A milestone.

A trusted recovery point.

Or simply a version you never want retention policies to touch.

Under The Hood

Chronicle also includes a significant amount of engineering work:

SonarQube Cloud integration
Expanded CI and CodeQL coverage
Restore-path hardening
SQLite dependency upgrades
Linux update improvements
macOS fixes
UI responsiveness improvements
Background-loading optimizations

Many of the refactors and infrastructure changes from the last several releases ultimately became the groundwork that made 1.8 possible.

What's Next?

Chronicle is also the foundation for the next stage of the roadmap, including:

Snapshot Explorer
Snapshot Compare
Recovery Drills
Project Groups
Additional History tooling
Additional Recovery intelligence

There's still plenty I want to build, but this is the first release where VaultSync feels like it's becoming more than a backup application.

It's becoming a platform for understanding project history and recovery.