Our second v1.0 alpha is ready for testing! Please try it out in your non-critial environments. This alpha contains a bunch of bug fixes and smaller enhancements. See the **All Changes** section below for details.
We expect that our next release will be `v1.0.0-beta.1`, meaning that all key features for v1.0.0 will be included. Following that release, we'll continue to fix
bugs and make minor improvements, and we expect to ship at least one more beta and/or release candidate prior to the general availability of v1.0.0.
### All Changes
* restic repo ensurer: return error if new repository does not become ready within a minute, and fix channel closing/deletion (#1367, @skriss)
* remove deprecated "hooks" for backups (they've been replaced by "pre hooks") (#1384, @skriss)
* fix setting up restic identifiers when fully-qualified plugin names are used (#1377, @jmontleon)
* add `--namespace` flag to `velero install` (@1380, @nrb)
* GCP: allow `storageLocation` to be specified as a config parameter for VolumeSnapshotLocations (#1375, @ctrox)
* add new prometheus gauge metrics `backup_total` and `restore_total` (#1353, @fabito)
* update install docs to use `velero install` (#1376 #1393 #1394, @nrb and @skriss)
* fix panic in API discovery when 1+ API groups cannot be reached (#1399, @skriss)
* fail backup if it already exists in object storage (#1390, @carlisia and @ncdc)
