ABS 2.5 Closer to Alpha Release

Happy Friday ABS users! We're extremely exited to announce the wait is about to end; we're really close to the first alpha version.
So far, an incredible progress has been one so far. As always, we decided to throw away the old UI code and start from scratch! ouch! Well, our customers deserve it, and a brand new back-bone source code deserves a new code in the front-end right? In any case, we thought will be a great opportunity to optimize, streamline and optimize old code.
Progress Status,

Development

• Time machine functionality DONE!
• Encrypt/Decrypt DONE
• Filter files to backup DONE
• Incremental Backup using the above features together DONE
• New native ZIP technology DONE
• New Backup Core Engine (improve speed and logic) DONE
• Restore UI and functionality DONE
• Restore backup (Including decrypt functionality) DONE
• Re write Live Update to work under win7/vista IN-PROGRESS
• FTP Backup DONE
• FTP Restore DONE
• Live Synchronize 2 folders DONE 
• Save general activities log files per backup IN-PROGRESS
• Implement new Backup ENGINE to main software IN-PROGRESS

Testing

• Test and verification NOT-STARTED
• Test Evaluation - Alpha to Release Candidate NOT-STARTED
• Release Version NOT-STARTED

Not Sure whether these features will make the 2.5 release

• Upload errors to ABS servers TBD
• Gather news from ABS servers TBD