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This 5.2.0 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
-It includes well over 50,000 lines of changes made by 19 contributors
-and a number of important new features:
+It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
+lots of bug fixes, and a number of important new features:
Compatibility:
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Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
Daemons.
+Main New Features:
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+- LZO Compression
+- New Tray Monitor
+- Purge Migration Job
+- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
+- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
+- Ability to Verify any specified Job
+- Additions to RunScript variables
+- Additions to the Plugin API
+- ACL enhancements
+- XATTR enhancements
+- Class Based Database Backend Drivers
+- Hash List Enhancements
+
+Some of the above are described below; all the above are
+described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
+manual.
+
+Bug fixes since 5.0.3:
+---------------------
+1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
+1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
+1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
+1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
+1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
+1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
+
+
================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
+Building Bat:
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+To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
+version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
+your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
+
New Catalog format in version 5.2.0
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This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
- Director selection option in bconsole
- restorejob command in bconsole
- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
+- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
+ work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
- Improved hash table for hard links
- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
and %h (Client Address)