- Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.0 Beta 2
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
General:
--------
+The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
-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:
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 5.2.0
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
Daemons.
-================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+Changes since 5.2.4:
+
+25Jan12
+ - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
+ - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
+ - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
+ - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
+ - Fix MediaView::getSelection
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
+
+=============================================================
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.4 version is a bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Most important changes since 5.2.3:
+- Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
+ files.
+- Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
+- Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
+- Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
+ depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
+- Compiler warning cleanups
+- xattr fixes
+- Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
+
+Changes since 5.2.3:
+
+18Jan12
+ - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
+ - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
+ - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
+ - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
+ variable
+ - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
+ - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
+ - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
+ - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
+ - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
+ test code
+ - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
+ - Fix bug #1815
+ - Fix systemd pid files.
+ - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
+ - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
+ - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
+ - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
+ - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
+ - Fix bug #1807
+ - Add configure for new redhat spec files
+ - Backport Enterprise spec files
+ - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
+ - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
+ - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
+ - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
+ - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
+ - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
+ - Add new features in plugin
+ - Add helper for ini files
+ - Implement run accurate=yes/no
+ - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
+ - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
+ - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
+ - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
+ - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
+ - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
+ - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
+
+
+==============================================================
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.2:
+
+ - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
+ - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
+ - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
+ - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
+ - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
+ - Fix #3419, update stats problem
+ - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
+ - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
+ - Fix segfault in accurate code
+ - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1801 3322 3419
+
- The new pruning algorithm will not allow to prune jobs that are essential to
- restore since the last Full backup. Pruning of volumes are not affected.
+================================================================
+Version 5.2.2
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
+additions and performance improvements.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.2
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.1:
+-----------------
+ - Implement -t option for Bat
+ - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
+ - Get new lib/plugins.h
+ - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
+ - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
+ - Add Systemd configure options
+ - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
+ - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
+ - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
+ - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
+ - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
+ - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
+ - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
+ - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
+ - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
+ - Fix bug #1774
+ - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
+ - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
+ - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
+ - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
+ - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
+ - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
+ - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
+ - bvfs: add clear_cache function
+ - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
+
+Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
+-----------------------
+1774 1778 3308 3325
+
+
+================================================================
-New Catalog format in version 5.2.0
------------------------------------
+Version 5.2.1
+
+The 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
+It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
+lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
+number of important new features:
+
+Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
+a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
+is 5.2.1.
+
+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 5.2.1
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+5.2.1 New Features:
+-----------------
+- 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.
+
+Closed Bugs 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
+
+Note on bug 1612 where Bacula does not save a checksum for hard links during
+full backup, but expects one during accurate differential backups. You need
+a Full backup with the 5.2.x code to have these checksums in the Catalog.
+Doing Incr/Diff over a 5.0.x Full backup will still display lot of errors.
+
+
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+ The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
+ restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
+ but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
+ prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
+
+Building Bat:
+-------------
+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.
+
+Packaging the SQL backend:
+--------------------------
+The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
+in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
+by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
+be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
+at the same time.
+
+- configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
+ --with-sqlite3
+ --with-mysql
+ --with-postgresql
+
+Order of testing for database is
+- postgresql
+- mysql
+- sqlite3
+
+Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
+A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
+
+At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
+backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
+the default backend type.
+
+If you configure all three backends you get three backend libraries and the
+postgresql gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default
+you can copy one of the three backend libraries over the
+libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
+
+cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
+
+And update the default backend in the following files:
+
+create_bacula_database
+drop_bacula_database
+drop_bacula_tables
+grant_bacula_privileges
+make_bacula_tables
+make_catalog_backup
+update_bacula_tables
+
+New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
+-----------------------------------------------
This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
-scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.0 (version
-14). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
+scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
+14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
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:
+source (i.e. manually):
1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
2. Save a copy of your existing database.
-3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.0 version of Bacula
+3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 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>
- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
- libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed.
+ libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
+ to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
- Indent lsmark during restore
- Disable batch insert config item
- 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)
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