Technical notes on version 2.3
+
+New features:
+Accurate files
+TLS authentication
+bextract Win32 data
+Run afterVSS
+Multiple command/console per runscript
+console command in runscript
+Bat API
+Plugin API
+State file updated on job term
+PluginOptions
+FD Version
+Duplicate Job directives
+MaxFullInterval
+MaxDiffInterval
+Honor nodump flag
+Improved status commands for Bat
+Spooling/despooling status
+Implement ftruncate for NFS devices
+Add long term statistics job table
+
+
General:
+02Apr08
+kes Apply patch from bug #1069 that corrects spurious error messages
+ when ACLs enabled on SGI but no ACL exists.
+ebl Fix small segfault in bacula-sd when debug level is 500
+kes Modify run_program() and run_program_full_output() to use
+ call by reference for the results string. This corrects a long
+ standing problem where the address of the string may be changed
+ in the subroutine but not in the calling program.
+01Apr08
+kes Re-enable code to remember last volume mounted on a non-tape
+ Autochanger.
+kes Add patch supplied in bug #1068 that fixes a SD crash when using
+ a Virtual autochanger.
+kes Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
+ running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
+ <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
+31Mar08
+kes Tweak hash algorithm for htable using Martin Simmons idea
+ for doing a circular shift.
+kes Remember what volume is in VTLs (previously turned off for
+ testing).
+kes Analysis of JobMedia records by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@hamartun.priv.no>
+ pointed out some problems in creating JobMedia records during
+ spooling with concurrent jobs. Fix the problem by updating the
+ start file position before despooling and generate a jobmedia
+ record at the end of despooling.
+28Mar08
+kes Fix handling of JobMedia records during spooling and when a
+ Volume is changed without actually writing data to the Volume.
+26Mar08
+kes Implement bsock code to permit locking. Use the new code in Verify
+ in the FD to prevent the heartbeat thread from disrupting the Verify
+ data sent to the Dir.
+kes Modify SD locking to eliminate locking the reservations system from
+ outside the system. Use the volume lock when getting media data
+ and reserving a new volume at end of media.
+kes Add Eric's volume_unused() fix to stored.c so that Volumes found
+ when SD starts are not locked into place.
+24Mar08
+kes Fix error compiling runscript code on 64 bit machines.
+kes Tweak Win32 mount point code.
+kes Fix a couple of bugs in the accurate code (bad sscanf, buffer not
+ cleared giving bad file estimate).
+kes Implement BIG_MALLOC in htable code. Runs 2.5 times faster for
+ 5 Million entries.
+22Mar08
+kes Keep Schedule run lists in order as suggested by
+ Bastian Friedrich.
+21Mar08
+kes Implement autostart scripts for Debian.
+ebl Implement upgrade catalog scripts.
+20Mar08
+ebl Apply jobstat patch for long term statistics. Have to implement
+ purge stats command and upgrade scripts.
+kes Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
+19Mar08
+kes Fix large number of JobMedia records reported by Eric Bollengier.
+18Mar08
+kes Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
+kes Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
+ GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
+kes Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
+kes Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
+ fix bug #1046.
+kes Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
+ of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
+16Mar08
+ebl Reduce memory usage for accurate backup, working only with ctime
+ and mtime. (not all Lstat field)
+ About 40MB for my linux system (400.000 files)
+14Mar08
+kes Add dcr->reserved_volume flag that allows us to release a volume
+ even if it is not vol->released. This allows maxvol2 to work when
+ Volumes expire and we are already writing to the device (i.e. a
+ volume is pulled out from under us by another job terminating after
+ we reserve the drive).
+13Mar08
+ebl Permit multiple command/console per runscript definition.
+ RunScript { command = /bin/true ; command = /bin/false ... }
+ebl Add RunsWhen = AfterVSS to runscript. You can execute a command
+ (restart an application) just after the VSS snapshot on windows.
+kes Don't zap dcr values during release_volume() as they might
+ have the next Volume to be mounted.
+kes Fix AIX prototype.
+12Mar08
+kes Second cut of drive switching during backup.
+11Mar08
+kes Fix Win32 build.
+kes Update Win32 version of wxWidgets to most recent version.
+kes Tweak Copy job details.
+kes Rework dir_find_next_appendable_volume to make a bit more effort
+ to find a suitable volume before giving up.
+10Mar08
+kes Make ask_sysop_to_create... to return if waken from wait.
+ This helps get out of blocked conditions.
+kes Experimental implementation of switch_device in reservations.
+kes Implement FD version to allow easier protocol changes.
+kes Add Plugin Options string -- not yet passed to FD.
+kes Implement PluginOptions ACL.
+09Mar08
+kes Attempt to correct problems with restores with autochangers and
+ use counts going negative
+kes Rework SD status command and implement API for bat. Implements
+ header, runing waitreservation, devices, volumes, spooling,
+ and terminated status keywords.
+ .status storage=xxx <keyword>
+kes Clarify TLS error message by adding double quotes around name.
+kes Simplify SD/FD status code by putting api flag in STATUS_PKT
+kes Pass jcr to tls routines so debug messages can be handled better.
+kes Rework jobq resource allocation code, and possibly fix a bug
+ that caused reference counts to get out of sync.
+08Mar08
+kes Rename fd/dir plugin to use Bacula standard underscore.
+kes Plugin work -- bring dir up to fd level.
+kes Start implementation of VTL code
+kes Fix Win32 build after adding new cats subroutine.
+06Mar08
+kes First cut at Duplicate Job implementation.
+05Mar08
+kes Fix bugs in MaxFullInterval and Implement MaxDiffInterval.
+kes Start PluginOptions string, and refactor a bit of ua_run.c
+ebl Apply Allan patch that permit to reset recyclepool.
+04Mar08
+kes Test patch -- possible fix or improvement for bug #1053
+kes Refactor FD and SD status commands to permit new API code in
+ SD, and to fix Win32 build.
+kes Win32 build is now working.
+03Mar08
+kes Implement 'MaxFullInterval' and start 'MaxDiffInterval' based on
+ some ideas in patch from Scott Bailey.
+kes Begin implementation of duplicate Job control.
+kes Fix some of Win32 build after recent additions.
+kes Apply patch from Frank Kardel that implements 'honor no dump flag',
+ which causes the FD to detect whether or not the OS has the
+ honor no dump bit (*BSD systems), and if so, to skip backing up
+ any file with this bit set. The feature is enabled by setting
+ 'honor no dump flag = yes' in the Options section of a FileSet.
+28Feb08
+kes Correct po warning message with datarootdir
+kes Implement more code in dird.c to put configuration parsing in
+ a class rather than use globals.
+kes Restructure SD status command for implementation of bat API
+ interface.
+27Feb08
+kes Suppress incorrect 'Will not descend from x into y' messages.
+kes Eliminate FORTIFY_CODE=2 bug, and make first cut at removing
+ daemon globals used by parser.
+kes Apply Joao's patch to separate DB_TYPE and DB_PROG in configure.
+26Feb08
+kes Fix free of plugin_list when none exists.
+25Feb08
+ebl Apply accurate project patch.
+24Feb08
+ebl Fix a segfault when using strip_path option. (Use of pm_strcpy
+ on non-mempool object)
+kes First cut of converting FD .status to work with bat API.
+ New form is:
+ .status client=XXX header
+ .status client=XXX running
+ .status client=XXX terminated
+kes Implement first cut of Copy Job.
+kes Implement Catalog in Pool resource. It overrides catalog specified
+ in the Client resource.
+22Feb08
+kes Apply patch (with some difficulties) from Joao Henrique Freitas
+ <joaohf@gmail.com>, which adds support for libdbi as a Bacula
+ database driver.
+kes Add patch from Martin Schmid scm@apsag.com that checks to see if
+ ftruncate() actually works. In the case of some (cheap) NAS devices,
+ it does not, and so recycling NAS Volumes does not work. The code
+ simply unlink()s the file, then recreates it. This fixes bug #1011.
+21Feb08
+kes First incomplete cut of big malloc blocks for htable.
+kes Tweak plugin code.
+17Feb08
+kes Plugin debug code + tweak a couple bat dialog layouts
+14Feb08
+kes Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
+ proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
+kes Temp fix to plugin name file_index.
+kes Bacula backed up and restored a MySQL database.
+13Feb08
+kes Implement plugin restore.
+kes Implement parsing of db_driver to give db_type index.
+10Feb08
+kes First cut of plugin restore code.
+kes Fix bug #1047, which had a heap overrun when stripping certain paths,
+ and do not strip paths on symbolic links.
+kes Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
+ the ./configure line.
+ebl Fix #1031 about wrong pool source information in job report.
+09Feb08
+kes Fix Win32 build.
+kes Remove a redundant jcr argument to find_files, match_files, and
+ find_one_file.
+kes Implement '.status dir header|scheduled|running|terminated' that
+ prints the requested status section. With the exception of the
+ header, the other reports have fields separated by tabs (\t).
+08Feb08
+kes Apply patch from Peter Much <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> that fixes
+ a resource embedded run command to find a since time if no explicit
+ since time was supplied on the command line.
+kes Apply state-file.patch sent by Allan Black <Allan.Black@btconnect.com>
+ that updates the state file at job termination time in addition to
+ when the daemon terminates.
+05Feb08
+kes First version where a plugin did a backup.
+ bpipe-fd.so created a backup file, wrote a test
+ string to it, and Bacua could restore this fabricated file.
+02Feb08
+kes Implement DB Driver = string for the DBI driver.
+kes Remove all old bdb_xxx.c code. Add dummy routines to bdb.c
+kes First cut of code for loading Win32 plugin dlls. Implement
+ dlopen, dlsym, dlclose, and dlerror in src/win32/compat/compat.cpp
+ and implement a dlfcn.h file based on opengroup's definitions of
+ the functions.
+01Feb08
+kes First cut plugin directives.
+30Jan08
+kes Apply patch from bug #1049 to prevent stripping the path on a
+ symlink.
+kes Attempt to fix bug #1047 where stripping a path corrupts the
+ heap. Waiting for feedback.
+kes Correct the Mount message not to suggest labeling a new tape
+ when doing a restore. Submitted by email by John Stoffel.
+kes Attempt to work around gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE bug that crashes the
+ FD by using casting. Reported in bug #1042.
+28Jan08
+kes A bit of crypto cleanup. More later.
+
+Release Version 2.2.8
+25Jan08
+kes Apply patch from Martin to correct bug #1040, bscan sets existing
+ ClientId to zero.
+kes Fixed important spelling error in doc -- bug #1045.
+23Jan08
+ebl Fix bextract to be able to extract non-portable Win32 data to
+ Unix/Linux clients
+kes Move initialization of read/write res lock earlier in the code.
+ This fixes the crash with a null conf file. This fixes bug
+ #1030.
+kes Redefine CURES in lib/parse_conf to be URES and move it all
+ into lib/parse_conf.c -- this responds to bug #1042, but does
+ not fix it. The fix is not to compile with FORTIFY_SOURCE.
+kes Backport to 2.2.8 fix de-referencing a NULL pointer in the scanner from
+ the trunk SVN. I don't think this was reported as a bug.
+17Jan08
+ebl Fix a bug during tape initialization with MTSETDRVBUFFER.
+12Jan08
+kes Fix Win32 build with new .def files and DLL_IMP_EXP ...
+10Jan08
+kes Add DataDespooling and DataCommitting status (committing is
+ the last despooling).
+kes Finish implementation of new reservations code noted below.
08Jan08
+kes Fix bsnprintf for float point numbers. I broke recently when
+ parameterizing some variables. This fixes bug #1036.
kes Undo recent reservations changes ... will apply them later
when they work better.
-kes Fix bsnprintf for float point numbers. I broke recently when
- parameterizing some variables.
06Jan08
ebl Fixes #1034 which cause mysql to hang the connection after 8h
ebl Change default statistics target of filename.name and path.path
31Dec07
kes Implement first cut running console commands in a RunScript.
29Dec07
-ebl Fixes bug #1028 where "Selection Type" option was not usable
+ebl Fixes bug #1028 where 'Selection Type' option was not usable
with JobDefs.
ebl Fixes bug #897 and bug #1005 where bacula doesn't display runscript
output in error.
+
+Release Version 2.2.7
24Dec07
kes Add new free_tls() entry point so that Win32 builds.
kes Fix compile warning in src/lib/util.c