restic: Exclude file is being ignored

After updating from restic 0.8.1 to 0.8.3 (with no other changes to my setup) restic has started throwing a permissions error on a path that is listed in an exclude file, so should be getting ignored.

Output of restic version

restic 0.8.3
compiled with go1.10 on linux/amd64

How did you run restic exactly?

restic-0.8.3 backup --exclude-file /path/to/exclude --no-cache -r gs:bucket:/restic /mnt/project
using parent snapshot e3f71c8b
scan [/mnt/project]
error for /mnt/project/.glusterfs: open /mnt/project/.glusterfs: permission denied
...

The exclude file contains:

.glusterfs
.glusterfs/*
.migrated
.migrated/*
.trashcan
.trashcan/*
css/*
ctools/*
js/*
styles/*
temp/*
tmp/*
xmlsitemap/*

What backend/server/service did you use to store the repository?

Google Cloud

Expected behavior

I want restic to not try to access the paths listed in the exclude file.

Actual behavior

Restic tries to access files and directories under paths listed in the exclude file.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Do you have any idea what may have caused this?

I updated from restic 0.8.1 to 0.8.3.

0.8.1 did not throw the permissions error on the .glusterfs directory when running backups and restoring a snapshot made with 0.8.1 does not restore a .glusterfs dir (or any of the other paths listed in the exclude file), so it was happy with my exclude file syntax.

Do you have an idea how to solve the issue?

Other than downgrade to 0.8.1, sorry, no.

Did restic help you or made you happy in any way?

Restic makes me happy, but not nearly as happy as the helpfulness and responsiveness of the developer 😃