- Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.1.10
- Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 458 Total lines = 170,197 (*.h *.c *.in)
-The major features are:
-- First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool)
+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. However, bat works only with
+a 2.1.8 Director.
+
+Areas requiring caution or testing:
+- You must have Qt4 Version 4.2 or greater loaded to build bat
+- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
+ to build with MySQL enabled.
+- The Volume management in the Storage daemon is extensively rewritten.
+ It appears to function much better, but is largely untested under
+ severe stress conditions (multiple drive autochangers, ...).
+- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
+ your database to grow.
+- Socket level heartbeat is untested.
+- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
+ to what we do with sockets).
+- Solaris is untested
+- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
+
+The major new features are:
+- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
+ many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
+- 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 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, and
+ qmake and the other Qt4 tools must be available. bat is ALPHA
+ software. A large part of the work was done by Dirk Bartley.
- 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 (untested).
+- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
+ thanks to Eric.
+- 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.
+- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
- 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: 856, 854, 845, 847, 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).
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