1 Technical notes on version 1.38
5 Release 1.38.8 (14Apr06) released 14Apr06
7 - Correct Makefile bug found by Dan Langille.
9 - Correct Makefile for Solaris /bin/sh
10 - Correct mtx-changer.in for Solaris /bin/sh
11 - Abort if a conf resource does not have a Name =
13 - Change the name of the regex program to bregex.
14 - Add the bwild program to the tools directory. It is similar
15 to the bregex program.
16 - Implement create bregex.h and bregex.c in src/lib from the
17 Python regexp program.
18 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
20 - Modify Makefile to change the permissions on Working Directory
21 to 770 if the directory is created.
22 - Do not fail the Makefile if changing the permissions or
23 owner/group on WorkingDir fails.
24 - Correct the old recycling algorithm so that Scratch Volumes
25 are selected when looking for a Volume in the changer.
26 - Correct a typo in the Verify SQL reported by Joe Park.
28 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
29 explictly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
30 - Remove the code added to 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 that pulls a
31 scratch volume in an Autochanger early in the 'recycling'
34 - Tweak license to include Microsoft restrictions.
35 - Move mysql.reconnect to after real_connect(). Thanks to
36 Frank Sweetser for the patch.
37 - Disallow a backslash in a File = directive (Windows junk)
38 unless the string is quoted.
39 - Apply Eric's patch to ua_label.c so that daemon protocol
42 Release 1.38.7 (06Apr06) released 07Apr06
44 - Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet
46 - Correct bacula.in script to reference bacula-ctl-xx in the
47 sysconfig directory rather than the bin directory.
49 Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06
51 - Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr()
52 and new jcr chain locking.
54 - Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts.
55 - Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm.
56 - Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid
57 as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible.
59 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
60 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
61 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
62 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
63 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
65 - Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574.
66 - Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c
67 - Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple
68 threads by bashing in a local.
69 - Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error
70 message rather than nothing.
71 - Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs
72 are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape.
73 - Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid
74 possible non-release of reservation_lock().
75 - Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between
76 reservation lock and device mutex.
77 - Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch.
79 - Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for
80 tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build.
82 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
83 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
85 - Implement regex test program in tools directory.
86 - Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs.
87 - Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user.
90 - Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for
91 restore, if polling is turned on.
92 - Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's
94 - Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid.
95 - If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to
96 the working-dir. Fixes bug #533.
97 - If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD.
98 Fixes bugs #566 and 557.
99 - Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict.
103 - Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
104 - Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
105 - Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
106 records to get to seek position.
107 - Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
108 - Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
109 terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
110 SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
111 mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
112 use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
113 - Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
114 lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
115 - Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
116 multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
117 - Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
118 - Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
119 system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
120 This could possibly fix bug #543.
121 - Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
124 - Use John Kodis' edit_with_suffix code to edit VolBytes.
125 - Backport some fixes for acquire.c. Most importantly, to explicitly
126 have a reserved_device flag for acquire_for_read(). Hopefully
127 this will correct the remaining issues with failed restores holding
129 - Add a job_canceled() check in SD command loop.
131 Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
133 - The po files should now be current.
134 - Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
135 buffers in all cases.
136 - Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
137 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
138 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
139 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
140 - Allow listing by any of the above.
141 - Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
142 and rates with suffexes from John Kodis <kodis at comcast.net>.
143 - Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
144 - Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
146 - Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
147 - Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
148 - Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
149 - Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
152 - Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
153 - Update the po files at Eric's request.
155 Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
157 - Add sql_use_result() define.
159 Release 1.38.6 beta1 24Feb06
161 - Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
164 - Add virtual disk autochanger code.
165 - Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
166 correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
167 - Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
168 - Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
170 - When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
171 exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
172 for a Scratch Volume.
173 - Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
174 - Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
175 - Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
176 - Check that user supplied a value before referencing
177 it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
178 - Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
179 - Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
180 updating all volumes in a Pool.
181 - Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
182 - Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
183 two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
184 - Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
186 - Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
187 a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
188 - Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
190 - Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
191 - Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
192 up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
193 - Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
195 - Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
196 - Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
197 all Volumes in a pool.
199 Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
201 - Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
203 - Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
204 so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
205 - Allow users to specify user/group and start options
206 for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
208 Release 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
210 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
211 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
212 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
214 - Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
215 pool by releasing free buffers.
217 - Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
218 - Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
220 - Make db_lock() mutex error fail the job rather than abort
221 Bacula. Canceling the job caused the mutex to fail.
222 - Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
223 number of items goes to zero.
224 - Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
225 so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
227 - Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
228 and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
229 These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
230 a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
231 messages will generally print for each JobId because they
232 represent the different problems with either the same drive
233 or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
234 of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
235 or greater is enabled in the SD.
237 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
238 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
239 the job can be manually started from the console.
240 - During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
241 StorageId is zero (old Media records).
245 - Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned
246 slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer.
247 - Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs.
248 - Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the
249 drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes
252 - Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time.
254 - Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file
255 differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h
256 hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c
257 util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto
259 - Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The
260 incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking
261 routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed
262 from under the walk routines.
264 Release 1.38.3 05Jan06:
266 - Move the suitable_drive flag to a better place to prevent
267 premature termination of the reservation if all drives
268 are busy -- should fix Arno's diff/inc pool failures.
270 - Add mutex to single thread VSS code in Win32.
272 Beta release 23Dec05:
274 - Add OPENSSL_INC to console dependencies, lib dependencies, and
275 wx-console dependencies in Makefile.in
276 - Add OPENSSL INC/LIB to gnome2_console Makefile.in.
277 - Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
278 volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait
280 - Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
281 - Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and
282 it is not an autochanger.
283 - Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
284 This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
285 rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
286 file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
287 - Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
288 if the device is open or not. This should eliminate
290 - Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
291 - Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
292 - Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
293 code. This should fix bug #500.
295 - Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
296 - Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
298 - If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
300 - Delete old bnet packet code.
301 - Ignore new BNET_START_SELECT and BNET_END_SELECT signals in
303 - Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
304 only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug
306 Beta release 20Dec05:
308 - Fix seg fault in exit of acquire when canceling a job --
309 reported by Wolfgang Denk
311 - Implement load balancing code.
312 - Pull a few files from 1.39 where we can maintain compatibility.
313 - Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
314 more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
315 jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
317 - Remove quotes from Version table name -- it breaks things.
318 - Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
319 - Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
321 - Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
322 - Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
323 - Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
324 Beta release 14Dec05:
326 - Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
327 for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
328 - Add quotes around table Version because of
329 error in MySQL 4.1.15 -- bug report submitted.
330 - Correct some minor problems with btape in the fill
332 - Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
333 - Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
334 - Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
335 and always open nonblocking.
336 - Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
337 - Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
338 - Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
340 - With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
343 - Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
344 - When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
345 - Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
346 - Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
348 - Use localhost if no network configured
350 - Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
351 - Remove debug print.
352 - Add bail_out in error during state file reading.
353 Beta release 10Dec05:
355 - Merge updates into 1.38 branch
356 - Update specs to include mysql4 define.
357 - Stop read_record() if status not ok in second loop.
358 - Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
359 and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan
360 to get FileIndex at EOT correct.
361 - Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
363 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
364 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
366 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
367 to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
370 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
372 - Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
373 from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
375 - Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
376 Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
377 - Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
378 errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
379 - Add sanity check in append.c to ensure that dcr is not NULL.
380 This can happen if multiple drive autochanger SCSI control
381 channel and drive indicies do not correspond.
383 - Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
384 - Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
385 - Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
387 - Add back next_vol index code so that two drive autochangers can get
389 - Change a bunch of debug levels to aid debugging autochangers.
390 - Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
391 - Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
394 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
395 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
396 'list nextvol days=xx'
399 My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
400 next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
403 - Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
404 - Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
406 - Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
408 - Correct some more editing of JobId's (for 64 bit compatibility).
409 - Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
410 - Add Migration Job to Job.
411 - Change Start Storage daemon job to require read and write storage
413 - Pass read storage data to SD as well as write storage data.
414 - Remove old code from winservice.cpp
415 - Break on error in scan.
416 - Fix typo in signal.c
417 - Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr.
418 - Cleanup how find_device() works.
419 - Add read output to Status in SD.
421 - Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris.
424 Changes to 1.38.2: 22 November 2005
426 - Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479.
427 - Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 (bug originator
428 says this does not fix *his* bug).
429 - Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481
430 - Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487
431 - Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488
432 - Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c
433 - Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource
434 fork filename. Bug #489
435 - Add Pool name to SD status output.
436 - Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492
438 Changes to 1.38.1: 15 November 2005
440 - Apply SunOS patch for ACLs submitted by David Duchscher.
441 - Make sure to set storage before trying to set drive.
442 - Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes
443 a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted
445 - Make sure when we do a mount to unblock the device even
446 if the drive could not be opened.
448 - Merge Scott's new spec files.
449 - Add doc on setting up Win32 environment variable supplied
450 by Kees van den Broek.
451 - Turn off API debug output unless debug set to avoid confusing
453 - Add Solaris ACL detection in configure.in as supplied by
456 - Implement 'autochanger drives' protocol so that Dir knows
457 how many drives an autochanger has.
458 - Do not request drive number in label, ... if only one drive.
459 - Turn off debug code.
460 - Fix update slots to clear slot number of every slot before
461 setting it. This fixes (I believe) bug #471
462 - Make unmount unload the autochanger slot.
463 - Modify open() on mount to be read-only and non-blocking,
464 otherwise the mount can block for a long time.
465 - Make a few error message numbers unique.
466 - Make a few error messages more correct.
467 - Apply patch from Thorsten to fix Win98 stat() command.
469 - Remove delete of CVS from all makefiles.
470 - Fix seg fault when clicking on Add button in wx-console
471 restore panel. Bug #470.
472 - Fix copyright date and URL typo -- bug #468.
473 - Change autostart install for FreeBSD to look for rc.conf
474 rather than rc.local as suggested fix for bug #466.
475 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
476 grant on status. Bug #465
477 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
478 update script. Bug #464
479 - Fix off by one for last Slot of autochanger for label.
480 - Update release date.
481 - Tweak an authentication error message in dir.
482 - Fix autoloader so that mutex is set and released around
483 each run_program(). There was a missing set.
484 - Remove an unnecessary drive release in autochanger.
485 - Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog
487 - Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb
488 - Fix wrong variable in bpipe.c debug output reported by user.
489 - Fix improper placement of encode_and_send_attributes() in
490 FD backup.c causing first file of non-portable Win32 backup
491 to have wrong stream. Reported by Thorsten.
492 - Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in
493 autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457.
494 - Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested
495 by user. Fixes bug #456.
497 Released 1.38.0 (28Oct05): 31 October 2005