- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.0
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.3
- Bacula code: Total files = 420 Total lines = 138,440 (*.h *.c *.in)
- 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
+ Bacula code: Total files = 424 Total lines = 140,955 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
-Major Changes:
+Changes to 1.38.3:
+- 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
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.
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