- Release Notes for Bacula 1.30-22Apr03 BETA
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 235 Total lines = 67,254 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Major Changes this Release:
-- The Windows Client now uses Cygwin 1.3.20 and should be much
- more reliable.
-- Implemented save/restore of chflags for FreeBSD systems.
-- Support for FreeBSD tape drives.
-- Support for SHA1 signatures in addition to MD5 (more secure).
-- The btape "test" command is much more comprehensive and automatically
- tries different options.
-- Implemented support for barcodes ("label barcodes", "update slots").
-- Make Incremental and Differential saves backup all files changed as
- well as all files moved into save path (added st_ctime to check).
-- Preliminary support for cleaning tapes in autochangers.
-- Restores directory permissions and times correctly.
-
-Other Changes this Release:
-- Added "BSF at EOM = yes/no" for supporting FreeBSD tape drives.
-- The | and < options are now available for Excludes.
-- Multiple Directors in the GNOME Console now work (thanks Lutz Kttler).
-- Gnome console runs on GNOME 2.0 (haven't tried 2.2 yet).
-- Installation on Cygwin systems is now supported.
-- GNOME Console has font support thanks to Phil Stracchino.
-- Solaris 2.6 now supported.
-- ./configure now supports more systems
-- Support for Darwin
-- Support connection to MySQL on address:port.
-- Partial support for AIX systems.
-- Cycle through tapes with "RecycleOldestVolume=yes" (dangerous).
-- Support for Win95 systems (I hope).
-- Console program now supported on Win32 systems as well as
- several other utility programs.
-- Full listing of most catalog records (llist command).
-- Relabel Purged tapes with the relabel command.
-- Correct backwards path separators on Win32 systems to
- prevent creating files names with mixed conventions.
-- Print IP address on failed connections to servers.
-- Cancel command works much better (cancels waiting jobs in Dir
- and in SD).
-- Now have reasonable (but still small) regression script.
-- New Console commands for aiding scripting (@input, @output, @tee,
- @time, @version and wait).
-
-Items to note:
-- Version 1.29 File daemons can be used with version 1.30. However,
- there is an incompatibility if you use Exclude lists.
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.5.28
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 522 Total lines = 203,305 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.4.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 when you upgrade. There is
+no database upgrade needed from version 2.4.x. However, the next
+BETA release will require a database upgrade.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format :
+--------------------
+
+This BETA release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+script that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 2.5.x (version
+11). If you are using already a 2.5 version, you need to drop the JobHistory
+table before upgrading your catalog (if you are using the new "long term
+statistics" module, you can upgrade this table like with the Job table, see
+upgrade_<database>_table script).
+
+The upgrade operation will convert an essential field of the File table, and
+this operation will take TIME and will DOUBLE THE SIZE of your
+catalog temporarily. Depending on your catalog backend, you won't be able to run jobs
+during this period. For example, a 3 million files catalog will take 2mins to
+upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to backup it before executing the
+script.
+
+
+New configure option :
+----------------------
+
+This BETA release of Bacula 2.5.x development code uses libtool
+to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
+being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
+the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
+directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
+where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
+to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
+line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
+
+If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
+way of building static libraries, you can do so by disabling
+libtool on the configure command line with:
+
+ ./configure --disable-libtool
+==============================================================
+
+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/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.
+
+
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