4 Release before 15 April
6 New features needing documentation:
7 - command separator in console (!$%&'()*+,-/:;<>?[]^`{|}~)
8 - Eliminated license problems with OpenSSL.
9 - The exchange plugin truncates the exchange logs as soon as it has
10 sent the data to the sd. If the sd is spooling and something
11 goes wrong and the data doesn't make it to the backup medium then
12 the logs are lost, which could be a problem under some
14 - Regex filtered bsrs Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 15Aug08
15 - Allow Mixed Priorities Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 30Jun08
16 - New configure options --disable-libtool, --docdir, --htmldir, ...
18 Code to be completed before 3.0.0 is released:
19 1. Fix Exchange plugin bugs 1234,1235,1236,1237
21 2. Finish documentation (some noted above)
22 3. Make plugins work with Accurate -- needs two new API calls
23 - mark file not deleted
24 - is file deleted (at end of job)
25 - Pass accurate flag to Plugin (* this works)
26 * code implemented not yet intgrated into Exchange plugin
28 New features implemented:
32 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
33 - Extended Attribute support
34 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
36 --enable-libtool (default)
39 - Catalog Format Enhancements
40 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
42 - Duplicate Job Control
44 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
45 - State File updated at Job Termination
50 - Console Enhancements
55 - Restore seek optimization
56 - Virtual Tape Emulation
58 - RunScript Enhancements
60 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
61 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
62 - FD Version compatibily flag
63 - Statistics Enhancements
64 - Faster Attribute despooling
65 - Document split into 6 manuals
66 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
68 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
69 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
70 - New configure install options
71 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
72 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
77 - Exclude Dirs Containing
81 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
83 - Max Console Connections
84 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
85 - Allow Mixed Priorities
86 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
87 - Allow Higher Duplicates
88 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
89 - Cancel Running Duplicates
91 - Console (in RunScript)
93 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
95 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
96 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
97 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
98 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
99 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
100 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
101 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
102 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
103 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
104 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
105 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
106 Item n: Split documentation into several books
108 Features that will not be completed in 3.0:
110 - Dir plugin implementation somewhat minimal
111 - No example Dir plugin
112 - SD plugin implementation somewhat minimal
113 - No example SD plugin
114 - Install manual should be split into Install a
115 separate Configuration manual.
116 - Not all new features are tested or tested well
118 - Normal (as opposed to command) plugins are not yet
119 implemented (these are plugins can register to receive
120 specific backup/restore events).
121 See section 3.1 of the manual for more details.