- Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.0
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
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General:
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+The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
+additions and performance improvements.
-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 5.2.1, 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 5.2.0
+ 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
+
+
+================================================================
+
+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
-------------
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 dlownload the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
-
-New Catalog format in version 5.2.0
------------------------------------
+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
+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
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>
- 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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