2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.0
4 Bacula code: Total files = 396 Total lines = 116,418 (*.h *.c *.in)
8 - Tray monitor program (really cool)
9 - Bacula Rescue CDROM (easy to make and essential for emergencies)
10 - Bacula CD Image Manager
11 - General bug fixes/stabilization
12 - French translation of manual by Ludovic Strappazon well
14 - UTF-8 is supported in conio.
15 - Improved conf scanning code allowing FileSet components to
16 be put on a single line (previously everything had to be on
18 - Win32 files restored to an alternate directory will have the
19 colon following the drive letter turned into a / e.g. c:
20 becomes c/. Previously the c: was stripped. This applies only
21 to files written to an alternate directory (i.e. using a where=).
22 - Certain open files (Word for example) can now be saved on
24 - Default for Wild-cards on Win32 systems is to fold case this
25 should correct most of the problems users are having with
27 - Lots of improvements in the Rescue scripts -- better
28 network detection, better mounting code, ...
29 - The attributes spool file can now exceed 2GB.
30 - Significant speed improvements when running PostgreSQL.
31 - Significantly faster restore command with very large
32 FileSets while building the in memory directory tree.
33 - Patches directory in the source will have all patches
34 that have not been applied and released (new releases are
35 only generated when really critical bugs are found).
36 - Bacula forces the tape drive into variable block mode
37 on most systems (providing Bacula is running in variable
39 - dbcheck updated to remove many more orphaned records.
40 - Support for IPv6 (untested).
41 - Modifications to the license to termination clause for
42 more protection from SCO type predators. No change for
44 - SIGHUP to Director causes it to reload conf file.
46 - Many improvements in the documentation.
49 - Added "Rerun Failed levels = yes/no" in the Job resource
50 of the Director. It will upgrade the current job to a
51 higher level (Full or Differential) if a previous job
53 - Added "Ignore FileSet Changes = yes/no" in the FileSet
54 directive of the Director. It prevents the Director from
55 immediately upgrading the job to a Full save if you modify
56 the contents of the FileSet. Not recommended.
57 - Added "Block positioning = yes/no" in Device resource in SD.
58 If set to no, Bacula should (as yet untested) be able to
59 recover data from tapes where the drive was set to fixed
60 blocksize but Bacula is in variable block size.
61 - Added "Multiple connections = yes/no" in Catalog record for
62 allowing multiple simultaneous connections to the database.
63 This is a major performance improvement for PostgreSQL and
64 SQLite, but it is untested, so please test before putting
66 - Alert Command in SD permits checking for tape drive
67 alerts at the end of every job (or doing anything you want).
68 An example of the command is in the default bacula-sd.conf
69 file as well as in the Storage Configuration chapter of
73 - umount -- same as unmount.
74 - delete job now permits multiple jobids and ranges, e.g.:
75 delete job jobid=1,3,5,11-16
76 - reload -- reloads bacula-dir.conf in Director.
79 - As of 1.35.5 you MUST do a database update.
81 cd scripts-dir (or src/cats)
82 ./update_bacula_tables
84 - All daemons should be compatible with 1.34 with the exception
85 of the new FileSet features such as regular expressions.
86 - Regular expressions are not supported in the Win32 FD.
89 - Much better error messages from system errors particularly
90 on Win32 and in running scripts.
91 - Many improvements in the SD.
92 - Full support for 64 bit machines.
93 - btape improved test and fill commands.
94 - See the ChangeLog for additional details.