2 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.8
4 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
5 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
7 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
8 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
9 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
10 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
11 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
13 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
14 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1018, and 1028.
16 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
18 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
19 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
20 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
21 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
22 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
23 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
24 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
25 bar, thanks to the above patch.
26 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
28 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
29 driver with version 8.3.
30 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
32 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.5
33 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
35 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
36 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
38 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
39 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
40 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
41 957, 908, 958, and 955.
42 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
45 Version 2.2.4 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.3
46 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
47 - Possible fix for bug #908.
48 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
49 file to always be deleted.
50 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
52 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
53 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
55 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
56 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
57 are released as soon as possible.
58 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
59 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
60 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
61 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
62 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
63 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
64 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
65 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
67 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
70 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
73 Version 2.2.3 is a critical bug fix release to version 2.2.2
74 - Fix bug #935, and possibly also bug #903 where files were not
75 restored. MediaId was not properly set in JobMedia record after
76 a Volume change. This bug is known to affect all versions from
77 2.0.0 on, and probably versions prior to that. A detailed analysis
78 of the bug can be found at:
80 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-395.txt
82 - Add ./configure search in qwt-qt4 for qwt package
83 - Apply Martin Simmons patch that should turn off the new API usage
84 when batch insert is turned off allowing building on older
86 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
89 Version 2.2.2 is a minor bug fix release to 2.2.1
90 - Detect if new PosgreSQL batch insert API is present.
91 - Correct incorrect mempool call causing Director crash on older
92 systems that do not have va_copy().
93 - Update spec files for 2.2.1 release
95 Version 2.2.1 is mainly a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.0,
96 the main changes since 2.2.0 are:
97 - Fixed bugs #921, 930, and 923.
98 - More portable timezone offset in bsmtp thaks to Attila Fülöp.
99 - Fix several bat issues.
100 - Use GTK+ calls instead of egg files in tray-monitor.
101 - Win32 service routines rewritten
102 - Updated projects file
103 Please see the ChangeLog for details.
105 Notes on 2.2.0 release follow:
107 Areas requiring caution or testing:
108 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
109 to build with MySQL enabled.
110 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
111 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
112 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
113 to what we do with sockets).
114 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
115 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
116 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
117 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
118 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
119 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
120 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
121 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
123 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
125 The major new features are:
126 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
127 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
128 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
129 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
130 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
131 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
132 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
133 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
134 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
136 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
137 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
138 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
140 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
141 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
142 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
143 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
144 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
145 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
146 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
147 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
148 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
149 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
150 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
152 New ./configure options:
153 - --enable-bwx-console
158 - --enable-batch-insert
160 New bconsole commands:
166 - .pwd (in restore tree)
167 - restoreclient (keyword)
168 - backupclient (keyword)
169 - regexwhere (keyword)
170 - update jobid (new command)
171 - recyclepool (keyword)
174 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
175 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
176 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
177 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
178 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
179 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
180 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
181 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
182 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
183 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
184 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
186 Other features or bug fixes:
187 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
188 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
189 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
190 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
191 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
192 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
193 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
194 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
195 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
196 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
197 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
198 these packages in the distro.
199 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
201 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
202 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
203 directives are defined.
204 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
205 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
206 Use the command line or the Services panne.
207 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
208 - More debug output in status storage.
209 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
210 critical columns were lost).
211 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
212 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
213 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
214 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
215 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
216 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
217 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
218 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
219 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
220 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
221 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
222 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
223 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
224 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
225 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
226 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
227 in front of the configuration path/filename.
228 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
229 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
230 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
231 filename restrictions.
232 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
233 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
234 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
235 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
236 is already a < in the target.
237 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
238 mounted by another job.
239 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
240 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
241 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
242 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
243 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
244 - Database user and name can be configured with:
245 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
246 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
247 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
248 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
249 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
250 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
251 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
252 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
253 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
254 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
255 - Sockets are no longer restored.
256 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
257 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
258 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
259 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
260 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
261 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
262 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
263 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
264 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
265 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape