Duplicati is a free and open source backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. I’ve worked on the project for 15 years, along with over 100 contributors, but for various life reasons have had less time to dedicate to the project in the last few years. PRs have been taking longer to get merged, and bigger changes (like upgrading to .NET 8) were dragging.

In March, I announced the formation of Duplicati, Inc, an open core company building on top of the open source project. This development means I can dedicate more time to the project and hire developers to work on improvements and add to the project’s velocity. One of the first major improvements I wanted to make is upgrading the project to .NET 8.