- Release Notes for Bacula 2.1.14
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 458 Total lines = 170,197 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
-but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
-use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
-not have to upgrade all your File daemons. However, bat works only with
-a 2.1.8 Director or greater.
-
-Changes since Beta release 2.1.12
-- Fixed bugs #864, 872, 874, 882, 882
-- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
- mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
-- Fix update all from pool to pass pool name.
-- Correct reservation system bug that invalidated Volumes by
- calling find_next_appendable volume before acquiring a device.
-
-Changes since Beta release 2.1.10
-- Lots of new bat functionality !!!!!!
-- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
- the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
-- Reload was broken in 2.1.10 -- now fixed.
-- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
- pool and media type when a job is waiting.
-- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
-- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
-- Reduce the impact of a backup on the FD's memory usage (OS file
- caching). This works only on POSIX compliant systems. This allows
- users to work with less interference on a Client machine during a
- backup.
-- bat should now handle non-English characters.
-- ./configure now permits --enable-batch-insert (as well as --disable...).
- This feature is enabled by default if your SQL libraries are thread
- safe.
-- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
- This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
- of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
- The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
-
-Areas requiring caution or testing:
-- You must have Qt4 Version 4.2 or greater loaded to build bat
-- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
- to build with MySQL enabled.
-- The Volume management in the Storage daemon is extensively rewritten.
- It appears to function much better, but is largely untested under
- severe production stress conditions (multiple drive autochangers, ...).
-- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
- your database to grow compared to prior Bacula version.
-- Socket level heartbeat is untested.
-- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
- to what we do with sockets).
-- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
-- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
- bus errors.
-
-The major new features are:
-- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
- many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
-- First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
- bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
- must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, and
- qmake and the other Qt4 tools must be available. bat is ALPHA
- software. A large part of the work was done by Dirk Bartley.
-- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
-- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
- thanks to Eric.
-- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
-- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance.
-- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
-- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
- conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
-- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
-- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
-- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
-- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
-- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
- during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
-
-Other features or bug fixes:
-- Fixed bugs: 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
- 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
- 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
- 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
-- Only the minumum number of volumes are pruned rather than
- all volumes in the pool.
-- wx-console renamed to bwx-console
-- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console
-- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
-- Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
-- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
- in front of the configuration path/filename.
-- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
- memory usage, and a in use buffer dump.
-- Solaris door and event port files are no longer restored.
-- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
- filename restrictions.
-- Corrected Win32 ftruncate bug.
-- Additional version information added to Job reports.
-- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
-- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
- is already a < in the target.
-- Perfer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
- mounted by another job.
-- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
-- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
-- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
-- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
-- Drop from root done before database is opened.
-- database user and name can be configured with:
- --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
-- turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
-- rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
- This appears to have been an unreported bug.
-- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
-- Better restricted console ACL checking.
-- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
- users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
-- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
- job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
-- Sockets are no longer restored.
-- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
-- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
- large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
-- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
-- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
- which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
- the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
- not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
-- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
- catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
- and DVD).
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.3
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,088 Total lines = 219,172 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+
+This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
+It includes new code and some new features.
+There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
+
+Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
+ the 5.0.1 release section.
+ Important!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes and New Features:
+- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
+ it printed a warning message and continued.
+- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
+- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
+ must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
+ for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
+- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
+- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
+ it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
+ typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
+
+
+Bug fixes
+1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
+
+- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
+- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
+- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
+- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
+- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
+- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
+- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
+- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
+- Add archlinux to os.m4
+- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
+- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
+- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
+- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
+- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
+- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
+- Up maximum block size to 20M
+- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
+- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
+- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
+- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
+- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
+- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
+ catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
+- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
+ by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
+- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
+- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
+- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
+- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
+- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
+- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
+- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
+- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
+ install dir
+- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
+- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
+- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
+- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
+- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
+- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
+- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
+- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
+- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
+- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
+- Fix segfault when loading Plugins
+- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
+- Added new bacula-libs package.
+- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
+- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
+
+See ChangeLog for more details.
+
+=============================================================================
+
+
+============= Release 5.0.2 ========================
+
+Changes since 5.0.1
+-------------------
+
+Bug fixes
+1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
+
+- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
+- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
+- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
+- Fix cancel crash bug #1551
+- Check if sql backend is thread-safe
+- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
+- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
+- Rewind on close to fix #1549
+- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
+- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
+- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
+- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
+ calling db_unlock.
+- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
+- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
+- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
+- Another fix for OpenSSLv1
+- Add -lrt to Solaris links
+- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
+- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
+- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
+- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
+- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
+- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
+- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
+
+=============================================================================
+
+
+============= Release 5.0.1 ========================
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE FOR 5.0.0 USERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
+reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
+
+Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
+features section of the manual.
+
+When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
+(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
+10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
+resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
+error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Changes since 5.0.0
+-------------------
+- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
+ concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
+ Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
+ canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
+ If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
+ a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
+
+Directives:
+- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
+ no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
+ conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
+ and was confusing.
+- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
+ section in the manual.
+- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
+
+Bug fixes:
+1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
+1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
+
+- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
+- Fix three-pool regress bug
+- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
+- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
+ docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
+ constructor.
+- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
+- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
+- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
+ #1476
+- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
+- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
+- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
+- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
+- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
+- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
+- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
+- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
+- Fix missing console page in bat
+- Add bat help files to Window install
+- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
+- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
+- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
+- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
+- Update the bsock error URL
+- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
+- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
+- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
+- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
+- Remove file_index sequential check
+- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
+
+For Packagers:
+1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
+The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
+make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
+be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
+not installed by the Makefiles
+
+2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
+mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
+required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
+any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
+
+3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
+However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
+compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
+4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
+any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
+4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
+location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
+
+If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
+have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
+rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
+built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
+this problem (bug) does not exist.
+
+depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
+you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
+build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
+rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
+(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
+use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
+
+4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
+special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
+example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
+Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
+shared objects.
+
+5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
+single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
+PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
+recommendation is:
+
+#!/bin/sh
+# Recommended configure script for Bacula
+prefix=/opt/bacula
+email=xxx@yyy.zz
+CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
+ ./configure \
+ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
+ --docdir=${prefix}/html \
+ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
+ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
+ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
+ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
+ --enable-smartalloc \
+ --enable-tray-monitor \
+ --enable-bat \
+ --with-mysql \
+ --with-dump-email=${email} \
+ --with-job-email=${email} \
+ --with-smtp-host=localhost \
+ --with-baseport=9101
+
+Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
+...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
+defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
+the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
+
+If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
+describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
+send an email to the bacula-devel list.
+
+6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
+libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
+Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
+So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
+versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
+updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
+whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
+new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
+different versions of the shared objects.
+
+7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
+routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
+to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
+This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
+that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
+consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
+enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
+completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
+use readline or not as you please.
+
+==========================================================
+
+
+
+Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.0
+
+Release Numbering:
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
+5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
+several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
+the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
+and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
+that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
+be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
+be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
+In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
+than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
+version is more advanced or has more features than the
+Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
+is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
+will be version 4.0.0.
+
+Warning:
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
+upgrade.
+
+
+Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Bug fixes:
+1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
+1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
+1454 1455 1458 1456
+
+Fixed:
+ - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
+ responding to the bsmtp program
+ - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
+ - Fix various problems with the reload command
+ - Fix problems with conio
+ - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
+
+Enhancements:
+ - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
+ - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
+ - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
+ - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
+ - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurent Jobs for Devices to balance load
+ between drives
+ - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
+ checksum verification for example.
+ - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
+ - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
+ - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
+ - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
+ - Add new speed test to btape program
+ - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
+ - Windows version of Bat
+ - Added Spanish Bacula translation
+ - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
+ - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
+ to the same Pool
+ - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
+ - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
+ - Many ACL improvements
+ - Level added to FD status Job entry
+ - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
+ - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
+ - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
+
+Compatibility:
+As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
+of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
+you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
+
+Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
+Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
+as is reasonable for your situation.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
+12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
+detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
+recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
+source:
+1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
+2. Save a copy of your existing database.
+3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
+ Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
+ at the bottom of this file.
+4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
+(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+================================================================
+
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
+first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
+the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
+fail and you will need to manually find and run the
+Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
+This is because the file locations are different. If you want
+to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
+uninstalling it.
+================================================================
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
+we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
+access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
+to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
+section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
+================================================================
+
+Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
+(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
+the manual for more details.
+
+============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
+
+Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
+
+1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
+ of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
+ are still some that need fixing.
+
+2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
+ not yet been done.
+
+The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
+manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
+you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
+=====
+
+
+This release includes large number of new features and changes.
+It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
+and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
+features.
+
+Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
+some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
+
+http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_1.html
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.