1 Technical notes on version 1.38
5 Release 1.38.10 (08Jun06) released 12JunO6
7 - Modify setting ACLs to suppress error message if the file is a
8 symbolic link since the file linked to may not yet be created,
9 and symbolic links really should not have attributes ...
10 - Remove old regex code from baconfig.h
12 - Complete implementation of acl.c error message during restore.
13 During backups, errors getting acls are silently ignored, as was
16 - Modify configure.in to check for typeof().
17 - Better detection of postgresql installation if pg_conf works.
18 - Fix RescheduleTimes = 0 bug (should not reschedule).
19 - Down port from 1.39: fixes for reload, autochanger error messages,
20 scheduler fixes for reload and day light savings change,
22 - Implement partial error messages for src/filed/acl.c
23 - Fix return code to fail when doing update barcodes and
24 Pool resource is not found. This previously caused Volumes
25 to be labeled as cleaning tapes.
26 - Small updates to projects file.
28 - Prevent DVD code from rewriting label if the device cannot be
30 - Fix Dir/SD run race in migrate.c, verify.c, and restore.c
31 - Update projects file.
33 - Applied patch posted by Jaime Ventura to bug #570 to correct failure
34 of restarted jobs to complete (due to a destroyed pthreads conditional
35 variable used by the message thread).
36 - Fixed bug #619 where Bacula would not restart jobs with MaxRestartTimes
38 - Apply patch from John Goerzen bug #611 to fix bad manual links in the code.
39 - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #614 to removed trailing
40 colons in query.sql file.
41 - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #613 to correct prunning of files
42 not to create orphans.
43 - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #617 to use mtime instead of ctime
44 in restore long listing.
45 - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #609 to use MarkId in verify.c instead
46 of incorrect MarkedId.
47 - Apply patch from adioso bug #616 to correct text in manual (replace
48 Director with File daemon).
50 - Move DIR "run" command to SD before starting the message thread
51 as suggested by Cristopher Hull to avoid a race deadlock from
52 two threads using the bsock structure.
53 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
55 - Correct EOF with no \n lex.c problem.
56 - Add additional INFO messages if autochanger cannot be used.
57 - Add Eric Bollengier's lex error handler fix, which corrects most
58 of the reload problems.
60 Release 1.38.9 (02May06) released 02MayO6
62 - Added code to strip backslashes from Windows filenames during
64 - Corrected Win32 License to use the correct LICENSE file.
65 - Corrected the buffer count and bytes reported in the heap
68 - Implement an NT_() macro to indicate that text should NOT
70 - Fix a number of incorrect strings marked for translation, when
71 they should not be (e.g. commands).
72 - Fix StartTime bug reported for ClientRunBeforeJob and RunBeforeJob
73 Patches supplied by user in bugs #608 and #599.
74 - Use most recent of st_ctime and st_mtime in restore tree DIR
75 listing. This fixes some problems with Win32 printing incorrect
77 - Correct the clock shift comm time calculation between the DIR
78 and the FD. It was added rather than subtracted.
79 - Strip all backslashes in filenames to be restored on Win32
80 machines -- the names should all be in Unix format, and if
81 there are any backslashes it is most likely due to an improper
82 FileSet definition, and the files will not otherwise be
84 - Remove lib/regex.c (replaced by bregex.c).
85 - Delete src/win32/License.txt
86 - Modify installer to install LICENSE
88 - Add back ua_label barcode fix from Rufolf Cejka.
90 - Add 'Dir Status' button to the gnome console.
91 - Display heap stats in Storage daemon without debug level.
93 - Integrate most of the MinGW changes -- more to do.
95 - Implement using pg_config for finding PostgreSQL files.
96 Fixes bug #600. Patch supplied by user.
97 - Remove -t option from mktemp in mtx_changer.in and use
98 working directory. Fixes bug #578.
99 - Update job start time after the any run before job so that
100 files created by the script are only backed up once. Fixes
102 - Strip trailing newline only from filenames entered in
103 the restore command when reading a file. This permits
104 the user to enter filenames with trailing spaces. Fixes
105 bug #549. The user supplied a patch that I modified slightly.
106 - Use the most recent time (st_mtime, st_ctime) in the dir
107 command in restore. This gives the user a better idea of what
108 the newest file really is. This fixes bug #574. The fix
109 was suggested by the user.
111 - Remove the -f option from the chown in Makefile.in for more
113 - Change setting the group in Makefile.in to use chgrp for
115 - Implement a Bacula read/write lock for Python rather
116 than using the Python lock to avoid recursive problems.
117 - Correct the uninstall directory names in filed/Makefile.in
118 as reported by a user.
120 Release 1.38.8 (14Apr06) released 14Apr06
122 - Correct Makefile bug found by Dan Langille.
124 - Correct Makefile for Solaris /bin/sh
125 - Correct mtx-changer.in for Solaris /bin/sh
126 - Abort if a conf resource does not have a Name =
128 - Change the name of the regex program to bregex.
129 - Add the bwild program to the tools directory. It is similar
130 to the bregex program.
131 - Implement create bregex.h and bregex.c in src/lib from the
132 Python regexp program.
133 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
135 - Modify Makefile to change the permissions on Working Directory
136 to 770 if the directory is created.
137 - Do not fail the Makefile if changing the permissions or
138 owner/group on WorkingDir fails.
139 - Correct the old recycling algorithm so that Scratch Volumes
140 are selected when looking for a Volume in the changer.
141 - Correct a typo in the Verify SQL reported by Joe Park.
143 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
144 explictly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
145 - Remove the code added to 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 that pulls a
146 scratch volume in an Autochanger early in the 'recycling'
149 - Tweak license to include Microsoft restrictions.
150 - Move mysql.reconnect to after real_connect(). Thanks to
151 Frank Sweetser for the patch.
152 - Disallow a backslash in a File = directive (Windows junk)
153 unless the string is quoted.
154 - Apply Eric's patch to ua_label.c so that daemon protocol
157 Release 1.38.7 (06Apr06) released 07Apr06
159 - Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet
161 - Correct bacula.in script to reference bacula-ctl-xx in the
162 sysconfig directory rather than the bin directory.
164 Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06
166 - Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr()
167 and new jcr chain locking.
169 - Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts.
170 - Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm.
171 - Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid
172 as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible.
174 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
175 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
176 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
177 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
178 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
180 - Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574.
181 - Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c
182 - Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple
183 threads by bashing in a local.
184 - Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error
185 message rather than nothing.
186 - Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs
187 are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape.
188 - Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid
189 possible non-release of reservation_lock().
190 - Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between
191 reservation lock and device mutex.
192 - Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch.
194 - Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for
195 tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build.
197 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
198 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
200 - Implement regex test program in tools directory.
201 - Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs.
202 - Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user.
205 - Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for
206 restore, if polling is turned on.
207 - Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's
209 - Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid.
210 - If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to
211 the working-dir. Fixes bug #533.
212 - If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD.
213 Fixes bugs #566 and 557.
214 - Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict.
218 - Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
219 - Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
220 - Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
221 records to get to seek position.
222 - Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
223 - Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
224 terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
225 SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
226 mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
227 use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
228 - Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
229 lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
230 - Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
231 multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
232 - Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
233 - Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
234 system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
235 This could possibly fix bug #543.
236 - Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
239 - Use John Kodis' edit_with_suffix code to edit VolBytes.
240 - Backport some fixes for acquire.c. Most importantly, to explicitly
241 have a reserved_device flag for acquire_for_read(). Hopefully
242 this will correct the remaining issues with failed restores holding
244 - Add a job_canceled() check in SD command loop.
246 Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
248 - The po files should now be current.
249 - Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
250 buffers in all cases.
251 - Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
252 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
253 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
254 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
255 - Allow listing by any of the above.
256 - Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
257 and rates with suffexes from John Kodis <kodis at comcast.net>.
258 - Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
259 - Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
261 - Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
262 - Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
263 - Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
264 - Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
267 - Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
268 - Update the po files at Eric's request.
270 Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
272 - Add sql_use_result() define.
274 Release 1.38.6 beta1 24Feb06
276 - Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
279 - Add virtual disk autochanger code.
280 - Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
281 correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
282 - Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
283 - Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
285 - When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
286 exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
287 for a Scratch Volume.
288 - Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
289 - Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
290 - Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
291 - Check that user supplied a value before referencing
292 it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
293 - Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
294 - Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
295 updating all volumes in a Pool.
296 - Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
297 - Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
298 two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
299 - Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
301 - Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
302 a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
303 - Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
305 - Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
306 - Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
307 up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
308 - Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
310 - Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
311 - Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
312 all Volumes in a pool.
314 Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
316 - Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
318 - Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
319 so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
320 - Allow users to specify user/group and start options
321 for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
323 Release 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
325 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
326 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
327 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
329 - Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
330 pool by releasing free buffers.
332 - Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
333 - Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
335 - Make db_lock() mutex error fail the job rather than abort
336 Bacula. Canceling the job caused the mutex to fail.
337 - Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
338 number of items goes to zero.
339 - Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
340 so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
342 - Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
343 and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
344 These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
345 a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
346 messages will generally print for each JobId because they
347 represent the different problems with either the same drive
348 or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
349 of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
350 or greater is enabled in the SD.
352 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
353 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
354 the job can be manually started from the console.
355 - During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
356 StorageId is zero (old Media records).
360 - Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned
361 slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer.
362 - Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs.
363 - Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the
364 drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes
367 - Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time.
369 - Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file
370 differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h
371 hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c
372 util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto
374 - Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The
375 incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking
376 routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed
377 from under the walk routines.
379 Release 1.38.3 05Jan06:
381 - Move the suitable_drive flag to a better place to prevent
382 premature termination of the reservation if all drives
383 are busy -- should fix Arno's diff/inc pool failures.
385 - Add mutex to single thread VSS code in Win32.
387 Beta release 23Dec05:
389 - Add OPENSSL_INC to console dependencies, lib dependencies, and
390 wx-console dependencies in Makefile.in
391 - Add OPENSSL INC/LIB to gnome2_console Makefile.in.
392 - Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
393 volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait
395 - Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
396 - Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and
397 it is not an autochanger.
398 - Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
399 This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
400 rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
401 file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
402 - Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
403 if the device is open or not. This should eliminate
405 - Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
406 - Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
407 - Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
408 code. This should fix bug #500.
410 - Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
411 - Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
413 - If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
415 - Delete old bnet packet code.
416 - Ignore new BNET_START_SELECT and BNET_END_SELECT signals in
418 - Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
419 only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug
421 Beta release 20Dec05:
423 - Fix seg fault in exit of acquire when canceling a job --
424 reported by Wolfgang Denk
426 - Implement load balancing code.
427 - Pull a few files from 1.39 where we can maintain compatibility.
428 - Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
429 more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
430 jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
432 - Remove quotes from Version table name -- it breaks things.
433 - Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
434 - Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
436 - Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
437 - Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
438 - Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
439 Beta release 14Dec05:
441 - Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
442 for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
443 - Add quotes around table Version because of
444 error in MySQL 4.1.15 -- bug report submitted.
445 - Correct some minor problems with btape in the fill
447 - Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
448 - Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
449 - Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
450 and always open nonblocking.
451 - Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
452 - Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
453 - Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
455 - With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
458 - Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
459 - When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
460 - Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
461 - Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
463 - Use localhost if no network configured
465 - Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
466 - Remove debug print.
467 - Add bail_out in error during state file reading.
468 Beta release 10Dec05:
470 - Merge updates into 1.38 branch
471 - Update specs to include mysql4 define.
472 - Stop read_record() if status not ok in second loop.
473 - Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
474 and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan
475 to get FileIndex at EOT correct.
476 - Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
478 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
479 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
481 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
482 to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
485 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
487 - Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
488 from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
490 - Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
491 Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
492 - Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
493 errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
494 - Add sanity check in append.c to ensure that dcr is not NULL.
495 This can happen if multiple drive autochanger SCSI control
496 channel and drive indicies do not correspond.
498 - Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
499 - Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
500 - Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
502 - Add back next_vol index code so that two drive autochangers can get
504 - Change a bunch of debug levels to aid debugging autochangers.
505 - Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
506 - Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
509 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
510 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
511 'list nextvol days=xx'
514 My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
515 next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
518 - Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
519 - Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
521 - Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
523 - Correct some more editing of JobId's (for 64 bit compatibility).
524 - Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
525 - Add Migration Job to Job.
526 - Change Start Storage daemon job to require read and write storage
528 - Pass read storage data to SD as well as write storage data.
529 - Remove old code from winservice.cpp
530 - Break on error in scan.
531 - Fix typo in signal.c
532 - Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr.
533 - Cleanup how find_device() works.
534 - Add read output to Status in SD.
536 - Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris.
539 Changes to 1.38.2: 22 November 2005
541 - Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479.
542 - Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 (bug originator
543 says this does not fix *his* bug).
544 - Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481
545 - Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487
546 - Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488
547 - Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c
548 - Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource
549 fork filename. Bug #489
550 - Add Pool name to SD status output.
551 - Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492
553 Changes to 1.38.1: 15 November 2005
555 - Apply SunOS patch for ACLs submitted by David Duchscher.
556 - Make sure to set storage before trying to set drive.
557 - Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes
558 a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted
560 - Make sure when we do a mount to unblock the device even
561 if the drive could not be opened.
563 - Merge Scott's new spec files.
564 - Add doc on setting up Win32 environment variable supplied
565 by Kees van den Broek.
566 - Turn off API debug output unless debug set to avoid confusing
568 - Add Solaris ACL detection in configure.in as supplied by
571 - Implement 'autochanger drives' protocol so that Dir knows
572 how many drives an autochanger has.
573 - Do not request drive number in label, ... if only one drive.
574 - Turn off debug code.
575 - Fix update slots to clear slot number of every slot before
576 setting it. This fixes (I believe) bug #471
577 - Make unmount unload the autochanger slot.
578 - Modify open() on mount to be read-only and non-blocking,
579 otherwise the mount can block for a long time.
580 - Make a few error message numbers unique.
581 - Make a few error messages more correct.
582 - Apply patch from Thorsten to fix Win98 stat() command.
584 - Remove delete of CVS from all makefiles.
585 - Fix seg fault when clicking on Add button in wx-console
586 restore panel. Bug #470.
587 - Fix copyright date and URL typo -- bug #468.
588 - Change autostart install for FreeBSD to look for rc.conf
589 rather than rc.local as suggested fix for bug #466.
590 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
591 grant on status. Bug #465
592 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
593 update script. Bug #464
594 - Fix off by one for last Slot of autochanger for label.
595 - Update release date.
596 - Tweak an authentication error message in dir.
597 - Fix autoloader so that mutex is set and released around
598 each run_program(). There was a missing set.
599 - Remove an unnecessary drive release in autochanger.
600 - Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog
602 - Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb
603 - Fix wrong variable in bpipe.c debug output reported by user.
604 - Fix improper placement of encode_and_send_attributes() in
605 FD backup.c causing first file of non-portable Win32 backup
606 to have wrong stream. Reported by Thorsten.
607 - Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in
608 autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457.
609 - Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested
610 by user. Fixes bug #456.
612 Released 1.38.0 (28Oct05): 31 October 2005