- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.6-beta5
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 419 Total lines = 137,078 (*.h *.c *.in)
- 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
-
-!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- If you are compiling for a 64 bit machine, you need to ensure
- that the code is compiled with the -O0 (- oh zero) option otherwise
- the SD will crash on most all operations -- apparently due to
- a compiler bug in gcc's 64 bit code generation.
-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
-New features:
-- For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if
- no appendable Volumes are available.
-- New virtual disk autochanger. See scripts/disk-changer for
- documentation.
-- New optional Device resource directive in SD. 'Device Type =',
- which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can
- be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot
- correctly detect the DVD.
-- Faster restore tree building and uses less memory.
-- The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the
- name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers
- as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers
- to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each
- job.
-- The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways
- of displaying the information.
-- The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids.
-- New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They
- are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn.
-
-Major bug fixes:
-- Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where
- both drives want the same Volume.
-- Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console
- if it is not in ACL.
-- Writable FIFOs now work for restore.
-- ACLs are now checked in all dot commands.
-- Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers
- should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names,
- update slots use correct StorageId).
-- Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed
- while in the reservation process.
-
-
-Minor bug fixes:
-- See below:
-
-Release 1.38.6 beta5 14Mar06
-- Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
-- Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
-- Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
- records to get to seek position.
-- Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
-- Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
- terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
- SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
- mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
- use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
-- Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
- lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
-- Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
- multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
-- Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
-- Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
- system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
- This could possibly fix bug #543.
-- Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
-
-Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
-04Mar06
-- The po files should now be current.
-- Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
- buffers in all cases.
-- Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
-- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
- to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
- be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
-- Allow listing by any of the above.
-- Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
- and rates with suffexes.
-- Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
-- Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
- Bacula.
-- Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
-- Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
-- Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
-- Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
-
-26Feb06
-- Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
-- Update the po files at Eric's request.
-
-Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
-25Feb06
-- Add sql_use_result() define.
-
-Changes to 1.38.6-beta1
-- Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
-- Add virtual disk autochanger code.
-- Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
- correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
-- Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
-- Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
- trashed the stack.
-- When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
- exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
- for a Scratch Volume.
-- Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
-- Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
-- Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
-- Check that user supplied a value before referencing
- it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
-- Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
-- Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
- updating all volumes in a Pool.
-- Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
-- Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
- two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
-- Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
- dvd, and fifo.
-- Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
- a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
-- Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
- scripts.
-- Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
-- Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
- up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
-- Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
- the Scratch Pool.
-- Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
-- Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
- all Volumes in a pool.
-
-Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
-- Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
-- Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
- so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
-- Allow users to specify user/group and start options
- for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
-
-Changes to 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
-- The main changes are to the Director and the Storage daemon,
- thus there is no need to update your File daemons. Just the
- same, I do recommend running with the release 1.38.3 Win32
- FD or later.
-- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
- list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
- lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
-- Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
- pool by releasing free buffers.
-- Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
-- Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
-- Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
- number of items goes to zero.
-- Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
- so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
- waiting.
-- Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
- and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
- These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
- a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
- messages will generally print for each JobId because they
- represent the different problems with either the same drive
- or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
- of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
- or greater is enabled in the SD.
-- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
- the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
- the job can be manually started from the console.
-- During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
- StorageId is zero (old Media records).
-- Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned
- slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer.
-- Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs.
-- Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the
- drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes
- Arno's changer bug.
-- Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time.
-- Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file
- differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h
- hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c
- util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto
- upgrades.
-- Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The
- incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking
- routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed
- from under the walk routines.
-
-
-Changes to 1.38.3 released 05Jan06:
-- This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive
- reservation algorithm has been rewritten.
-- In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be
- mounted and the mount messages has been modified.
- (the above two items are a potential source of problems).
-- Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
- volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code.
-- Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
-- Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and
- it is not an autochanger.
-- Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
- This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
- rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
- file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
-- Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
- if the device is open or not. This should eliminate
- Arnos problem.
-- Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
-- Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
-- Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
- code. This should fix bug #500.
-- Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
-- Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
- of the mode.
-- If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
- You have messages.
-- Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
- only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug
- #514.
-- Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers.
-- Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
- more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
- jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
-- Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
-- Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
-- Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
-- Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
-- Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
-- Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
- for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
-- Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
-- Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
-- Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
- and always open nonblocking.
-- Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
-- Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
-- Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
- message.
-- With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
-- Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
-- When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
-- Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
-- Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
-- Use localhost if no network configured
-- Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
-- Update specs to include mysql4 define.
-- Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
- and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan
- to get FileIndex at EOT correct.
-- Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
- correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
- Bug # 506.
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
- to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
- IP. Fixes bug # 508.
-- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
- Christian Masopust.
-- Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
- from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
-- Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
- Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
-- Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
- errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
-- Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
-- Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
-- Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
- caused an error.
-- Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
-- Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
- at the same time.
-- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
- If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
- 'list nextvol days=xx'
- or
- 'status dir days=xx'
- My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
- next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
- the weekend.
-- Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
-- Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
- fixes bug 502
-- Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
-- Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
-- Remove old code from winservice.cpp
-- Break on error in scan.
-- Fix typo in signal.c
-- Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr.
-- Cleanup how find_device() works.
-- Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491.
-
-Changes to 1.38.2:
-- Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479.
-- Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486
-- Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481
-- Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487
-- Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488
-- Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c
-- Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource
- fork filename. Bug #489
-- Add Pool name to SD status output.
-- Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492
-
-Changes to 1.38.1:
-- Corrected ACL for Solaris (David Duchscher and Attila Fulop).
-- Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes
- a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted
- by Adrew J. Millar.
-- Unmount command now unloads autochanger.
-- Fix hang in FD (Martin Simmons)
-- Fix Win98 stat() problem in FD (Thorsten Engel)
-- Fix update slots which did not clear missing tapes.
-- Fix autostart install for FreeBSD (user reported)
-- Fix several problems with PostgreSQL scripts (Eric Bollinger)
-- Critical: allow restore of the first file of non-portable Win32 backup.
-- Important: with muliple concurrent jobs the autochanger could get
- confused because of a missing mutex.
-- Fix accessing last slot in label and update slots.
-- Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog
- scripts.
-- Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb
-- Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in
- autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457.
-- Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested
- by user. Fixes bug #456.
-- AMD64 users see compiler bug warning below!!!!!!!!!
-
-Major Changes in 1.38:
-- Fixed out of order Volumes in restore.
-- Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive
- autochangers. Autochange users MUST use the new Autochanger
- resource in the Storage daemon.
-- There is a new database format that is not compatible
- with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting
- from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30.
-- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are
- Deamons are not compatible with prior versions.
- All FDs must be upgraded at the same time.
-- Support for ANSI/IBM labels.
-- Faster database inserts due to combining the MD5/SHA1 into
- the attributes record, eliminating one INSERT/file backed up.
-- Python Event support has been added. See below for
- configuration and details. The implementation is somewhat minimal,
- so the functionality is not complete. The Python interface
- has not been extensively tested, so please consider it BETA.
-- DVD writing support, using parts, and some new directives in
- the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks
- to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still
- BETA and should be carefully tested before using in
- production.
-- Seven new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
- ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
- and regexfile thanks to Pruben Guldberg). See below for details.
-- Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file
- records have been removed from the catalog.
-- Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level).
-- Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks
- to Landon Fuller.
-- Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any
- other Pool when a new Volume is needed.
-- You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data
- to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually,
- any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it
- also be used to group jobs.
-- Unicode filename support for Win32 (thanks to Thorsten Engel)
-- Volume Shadow Copy support for Win32 thus the capability to
- backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel).
- A VSS enabled Win32 FD is available. You must explicitly
- turn on VSS with 'Enable VSS = yes' in your FileSet resource.
-- New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham).
-- New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer).
-- SQLite3 support.
-- Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances,
- is now included in the Bacula GUI release. This is a management
- level tool for reporting the state of Bacula jobs.
-- The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized
- in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat.
-
-New Directives:
-- New Job directive 'Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no' causes the
- SD to select either an Autochanger or a drive with a valid
- Volume already mounted in preference. If none is available,
- it will select the first available drive.
-- New Run directive in Job resource of DIR. It permits
- cloning of jobs. To clone a copy of the current job, use
- Run = 'job-name level=%l since=\'%s\''
- Note, job-name is normally the same name as the job that
- is running but there is no restriction on what you put. If you
- want to start the job by hand and use job overrides such as
- storage=xxx, realize that the job will be started with the
- default storage values not the overrides. The level=%l guarantees
- that the chosen level of the job is the same, and the since=...
- ensures that the job uses *exactly* the same time/date for incremental
- and differential jobs. The since=... is ignored when level=Full.
- A cloned job will not start additional clones, so it is not possible
- to recurse.
-- New Options keywords in a FileSet directive (backported to 1.36.3):
- - WildDir xxx
- Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
- be matched).
- - WildFile xxx
- Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
- be matched).
- - RegexDir xxx
- Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
- will not be matched).
- - RegexFile xxx
- Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
- will not be matched).
- - IgnoreCase = yes | no
- Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
- This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
- - FsType = string
- where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
- reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
- systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
- and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
- specified on the fstype directive does not match the
- filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
- not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
- backing up non-local filesystems.
- - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
- If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
-- Label Type = ANSI | IBM | Bacula
- Implemented in Director Pool resource and in SD Device resource.
- If it is specified in the SD Device resource, it will take
- precedence over the value passed from the Director to the SD.
-- Check Labels = yes | no
- Implemented in the SD Device resource. If you intend to read
- ANSI or IBM labels, this *must* be set. Even if the volume
- is not ANSI labeled, you can set this to yes, and Bacula will
- check the label type.
-- Scripts Directory = <directory> name. Defines the directory from
- which Bacula scripts will be called for events. In fact, Bacula
- appends this name to the standard Python list of search directories,
- so the script could also be in any of the Python system directories.
-- In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
- a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
- HardLinks = no
- in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
-- MaximumPartSize = bytes (SD, Device resource)
- Defines the maximum part size.
-- Requires Mount = Yes/No (SD, Device resource)
- Defines if the device require to be mounted to be read, and if it
- must be written in a special way. If it set, the following directives
- must be defined in the same Device resource:
- + Mount Point = directory
- Directory where the device must be mounted.
- + Mount Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to mount the device. Before the command
- is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the
- Mount Point.
- + Unmount Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to unmount the device. Before the
- command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and
- %m with the Mount Point.
- + Write Part Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to write a part to the device. Before
- the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m
- with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based),
- and %v with the current part filename.
- + Free Space Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to check how much free space is left
- on the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with
- the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part
- number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename.
-- Write Part After Job = Yes/No (DIR, Job Resource, and Schedule Resource)
- If this directive is set to yes (default no), a new part file will be
- created after the job is finished.
-- A pile of new Directives to support TLS. Please see the TLS chapter
- of the manual.
-
-New Commands:
-- 'python restart' restarts the Python interpreter. Rather brutal, make
- sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change
- a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script.
-
-New configure options:
-- --with-libintl-prefix for defining alternate locations for
- the NLS internationalization libraries. Not normally required.
-- --datadir for defining where the language files will be installed
- required only if you do not want the default /usr/share.
-
-Items to note!!!
-- The Storage daemon now keeps track of what tapes it is using
- (was not the case in 1.36.x). This means that you must be much
- more careful when removing tapes and putting up a new one. In
- general, you should always do a 'unmount' prior to removing a
- tape, and a 'mount' after putting a new one into the drive.
-- If you use an Autochanger, you MUST update your SD conf file
- to use the new Autochanger resource. Otherwise, certain commands
- such as 'update slots' may not work.
-- You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line
- if you want Python support. Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 should be
- automatically detected if in the standard place.
-- When linking with --with-python, there are a few warnings that
- can be ignored.
-- You must either create a new catalog database or upgrade your
- old database. After installation, run from your scripts
- directory:
-
- ./upgrade_bacula_tables
-
- You can also find this script in the <bacula-source>/src/cats
- directory.
-- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are
- Deamons are not compatible with prior versions.
- All FDs must be upgraded at the same time.
-- You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if
- you want TLS communications encryption support.
-- Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in
- all cases, so it is turned off.
-- Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an
- AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that
- generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment fault.
- Typically you will see this in the Storage daemon first. The
- solution is to compile Bacula ensuring that no optimization is
- turned on (normally it is -O2).
- This same compiler bug has been reported and confirmed with
- gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) running on
- an AMD64 CPU. This for the moment, I would recommend that all
- users of GCC 4.0.1 or greater turn off all optimization when
- compiling.
-
-
-Other Items Fixed:
-- Security fixes for temp files created in mtx-changer, during
- ./configure, and during making of Rescue disk.
-- A new script, dvd-handler, in the scripts directory,
- which is designed to be used as parameters to Write Part Command and
- Free Space Command. They need the dvd+rw-tools to be installed
- (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) AND, the growisofs
- program must be patched using the
- <bacula-source>/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch
- You must have Python installed to run the scripts.
-- Part files support: File volumes can now be split into multiple
- files, called 'parts'.
-- For the details of the Python scripting support, please see the new
- Python Scripting chapter in the manual.
-- The default user/group for the Director and Storage daemon installed
- by rpms is bacula/bacula, thus you may need to add additional permissions
- to your database, or modify the permissions of the tape drive. If
- all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure
- to use user=bacula.
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.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.
+
+The major features are:
+- 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 libraries loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4
+ tools must be available.
+- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
+- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times).
+- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files.
+- 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.
+- 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: 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).