- Release Notes for Bacula 1.28
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 226 Total lines = 61,863 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Major Changes this Release:
-- Bare Metal Recovery for Linux systems.
-- Optimized restore, forward spaces to correct tape file and
- stops reading the archive when all files are restored.
-- Schedule permits specification of 1st, 2nd, ... week e.g.
- 1st Sun ...
-
-Minor Changes this Release:
-- Fixed Restore options (never,ifnewer, ...). They now work.
-- New bidirectional timed pipe mechanism for running child processes
- permits better error messages.
-- Faster Storage daemon initialization (using pthreads)
-- Unlimited devices in Storage daemon (previously hard coded to 20).
-- Fixed bug that recognized only the last option specified on Include record.
-- Easier building of statically linked version of Bacula.
-- Fixed pruning bug.
-- Fixes for VolUseDuration (problems putting it in DB).
-- Fix for / specified as Where.
-- Enhanced WriteBootstrap (more precise parameters -- e.g. volfile, ...)
-- Improved handling of Differential jobs (now on par with Incremental)
-- User supplied script in examples directory for backing up AFS file system.
-- User supplied script for Sun-desktop autoloader (examples/devices).
-- Added configure options for building static versions of the
- daemons and the console program.
-- Added a --enable-client-only option that will cause "make" to only
- build the File daemon and the libraries it needs.
-
-Items to note:
-- Nothing in particular.
+
+ 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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