+Kern;;;25 November 2013 at 17:53 CET
+Bacula Status Report
+
+Hello,
+
+I would like to speak to you about the following points:
+
+1. The rumors of the death of Bacula (the Community version)
+2. The Bareos fork of Bacula
+3. Bacula Systems and the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe)
+4. The future of Bacula (the Community version)
+
+1. The rumors of the death of Bacula (the Community version):
+
+I borrow words from a quote of Mark Twain : The rumors of the death
+of Bacula are highly exaggerated!
+
+I began working on Bacula 14 years ago (in January 2000), and it has
+been Open Source from the time it was publicly released in April
+2002, and it will remain Open Source. I have been and am fully
+devoted to Open Source, and in particular to Bacula, which is like
+my “baby”. So to hear rumors that Bacula is dead or that I have
+withheld commits because they are Enterprise features is shocking
+and hurtful to me as well as not true.
+
+I did inform the Bacula Community several years ago that my personal
+participation in Bacula would decrease a bit for several years to
+allow me to focus more on getting Bacula Systems started. In my
+opinion, that has not been a serious disadvantage for the Bacula
+project since Bacula Systems over that period has contributed far
+more code to Bacula than I could have alone over the same period,
+and as you will see a bit later in this status report, Bacula
+Systems contributions are absolutely guaranteed to continue in the
+long run, and even increase.
+
+2. The Bareos fork of Bacula:
+
+The Bacula repository has been on “hold” since our last release
+in early February, because on 27 February 2013, I learned that there
+was a fork of Bacula made by a former “consultant” of Bacula
+Systems with a former reseller of Bacula Systems. Unfortunately,
+despite the fact that Bareos hired one of the best German Open
+Source lawyers , there were a number of serious copyright violations
+with their code. Since the Bacula code is copyrighted by the Free
+Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), I provided the technical support,
+and the FSFE worked with Bareos to clean up their copyright
+violations. That took a significant amount of time (many months),
+and the Bareos code though significantly improved is still not
+totally free of copyright infringements. I won't go into the
+details here as all of you may not be interested, but will have much
+more to say about Bareos in later blogs, and when the blog is setup
+I will let you know.
+
+I find Bareos an unusual fork, because it wasn't done in what I
+believe to be the normal Open Source way. Normally a fork is made
+when a project is blocked or has serious disagreements with the
+users. Its also normally done in open communication rather than
+underhanded or in secret. In the case of Bacula, though some of the
+development slowed down (I will go into this in detail later), it
+certainly was by no means stopped. To complain about active
+development in Bacula Systems, is, in my opinion, incorrect first
+because adding features to the Enterprise version costs Bacula
+Systems a lot mostly in salaries yet takes absolutely nothing from
+Bacula. In fact, when you read the next section, you will see that
+the more that Bacula Systems develops, the more features that Bacula
+over time will have. Going back to what I find abnormal about the
+Bareos fork is that they claim that they spent three years
+developing a lot of new features, thus they are more feature rich
+than Bacula. Yes, for the moment, they have a few features that
+Bacula does not yet have, but not for long, and more importantly
+over the three years of development of those features they never
+offered these new features to Bacula nor to any Open Source project.
+Instead they were developed in secret. I find that a very strange
+behavior for a self-proclaimed Open Source company (actually, they
+are “forced” to be Open Source because of the Bacula AGPLv3
+license). So as Bacula contributors and users, you would be within
+your rights to feel very upset with Bareos, because they never
+offered you the code they developed.
+
+I assure that I will do all in my power to ensure that any
+worthwhile features that Bareos implements will be implemented in
+Bacula, and most likely better integrated and more robust, and where
+possible with even more functionality and growth potential.
+
+
+3. Bacula Systems and the FSFE:
+
+If you have been a long time Bacula user you may recall that I
+discussed the possibility in 2006-2007 of creating a company, now
+called Bacula Systems, to ensure the continuation of Bacula when I
+will no longer be able to personally contribute – say in 10 or 20
+years, as well as to provide the financial means to add high-end
+features to Bacula (a fibre channel network costs about $50K to
+setup). Much to my surprise 95% or more of the responses I got were
+very positive. Bacula Systems was created in July 2008, and for the
+first two years, the Enterprise code base and the Community code
+base were identical. Unfortunately, that didn't work financially
+for Bacula Systems. Companies willing to pay, were willing to pay
+for features and support but not support alone, so Bacula Systems
+embarked on development to continue maintenance and improvement of
+Bacula while at the same time creating mostly plugins to add
+differentiation to the Enterprise version.
+
+Now this may not sound very Open Source to you, and I understand,
+because I feel the same way. Were it at all possible, I would give
+you all of Bacula Systems code, unfortunately, that is not
+economically feasible at the current time, and yet without Bacula
+Systems, I fear the Bacula project will die or worse yet fall into
+the hands of someone incapable of maintaining the high quality we
+have created.
+
+While I was consulting with the Free Software Foundation Europe
+(FSFE) on the Bareos copyright violations, Bacula Systems and I
+began discussions with the FSFE on how to guarantee the long term
+survival of Bacula. These discussions, extremely positive on both
+sides and all points, recently lead to a formal written agreement
+between myself, Bacula Systems, and the FSFE. There are a number of
+points in the agreement, but probably the most important of all is
+that Bacula Systems has now put in writing that it is an Open Source
+company (at its heart), as it has always proclaimed, and will
+contribute all the Enterprise code it creates to the Bacula
+Community code base within at most a 5 year period. One exception
+is that Bacula Systems is legally unable to contribute certain code
+encumbered by third party proprietary license. The 5 year delay
+gives Bacula Systems the chance to develop Enterprise features that
+differentiate it, but ensures the continual growth of the Bacula
+Community code. This model can possibly be used across the industry
+to ensure the future of open source software in an environment where
+development costs, particularly for hardware to do testing, are
+prohibitive to the standard models of today.
+
+5. The future of Bacula (the Community version):
+
+If you have read section 4 above, hopefully if you were not already
+convinced that Bacula is alive that you can now see that it will
+have a long and successful future ahead of it. If you have any
+doubts, please do not hesitate to either send me an email on the
+bacula-users list or directly to me (if you want it private).
+Hopefully, by mid-December I will have a blog setup (need a major
+upgrade of bacula.org to do so), and I will then fill you in on the
+details of the Bareos fork as well as more details on what next to
+expect in Bacula.
+
+Thank you for contributing to and/or using Bacula ...
+
+Best regards,
+Kern
+;;;;
+
+
+Kern;;;20 February 2013 at 13:43 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.13 to Source Forge
+
+Version 5.2.13 version has 20 bug fixes since the last
+release. Some of the bug fixes are important.
+
+Important changes since last release:
+
+19Feb13
+ - Fix build/configure problems with bpluginfo.c
+ - Refactor lock_volumes so most lock a vol rather than globally
+ - Add virtualfull-extreme test
+ - Apply patch for chio-changer-openbsd from bug #1984 -- Implements listall
+ - Add bat Mac patch from bug #1953
+ - Fix bug #1812 cannot run Copy/Migrate jobs from bat
+ - Fix loading of bat translations. Patch from bug #1890
+ - Fix text input in bat. Fixe bug #1965
+ - Remove Device from show command as it is not used or updated
+ - Fix #1982 update enabled keyword in help command
+ - Fix update_postgresql_tables 10 to 11
+ - Clean after building doc binaries requested by Willem vd Akker for Debian
+ build
+ - Require Qt version 4.8.4
+ - Fix bug #1955 that OK to run? does not retry on bad response
+ - Backport new lock calls + debug for SD
+ - Fix bug #1975 new label ignored when first is duplicate.
+ - Pull src/lib changes from master
+ - Pull SD files from master
+ - Turn off prune-test
+ - Add logdir and bsrdir to regression config
+ - Add bsrdir and logdir to regress-config
+ - Changed default directories from /var/bacula to /opt/bacula
+ - Make spool size max message more explicit
+ - Display more info when maximum spool size is reached
+ - Fix TERM defs for Solaris 11 in conio.c
+ - Allow group to cd to sysconfdir
+ - Make sysconfdir belong to Bacula user/group and exclude others
+ - Fix Virtual Full file close bug -- race condition
+ - Enhance mount message to include read/append
+ - Improve vol_mgr swap messages
+ - Enhance output of Using Device to include for read/write
+ - Add jobid to Pmsg output
+ - Fix bug #1959 input validation on delete of jobs.
+ - Fix bug #1956 Authorization Errors false
+ - Add workaround for #5507 where autoprune and reload are in deadlock
+ - Allow conf file quoted strings to be used in a list
+ - Make bfgets handle very long lines
+ - Avoid seg fault by checking for NULL client -- reported by Arno
+ - Final fix of bug #1943
+ - Fix bug #1948 MailOnSuccess get executed on error.
+ - Fix missing index on Media table
+ - Fix bug #1943 no message storage on closed database connection.
+ - Fix bug #1946 Fix problem with MySQL with big Base jobs.
+ - Reduce wait time in regression RunScripts
+ - Implement a timeout on regression tests of 15 minutes
+ - Fix #5346 .bvfs_lsfiles and .bvfs_restore to handle deleted files
+ - Fix spooldata, accurate and ingnoreduplicate run argument
+ - Fix messages segfault
+ - Implement feature request #1939
+ - fix #1938 about PATH_MAX on hurd
+ - fix #1938 about MAXPATHLEN on hurd
+ - Fix bug #1937 OpenBSD autochanger example script
+ - Fix #4996 about MaxRunTime canceling the job too early
+ - Fix bug #1934 Wrong values at media list in BAT
+ - Fix race condition in close_msg that causes seg fault
+ - Fix double unlink
+ - More tests for freeing NULL pointers
+ - Add MaximumConcurrentReadJobs directive to Storage resource
+ - Add ujobid to .bvfs_get_jobids
+ - Avoid problem when stripping a relative path
+ - Fix #4513 about HIDDEN attribute set to parent directory during restore
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1812 1890 1934 1937 1938 1939 1943 1946 1948 1953 1955 1956 1959 1965 1975
+1982 1984 4513 4996 5346 5507
+
+
+;;
+Kern;;;11 September 2012 at 13:43 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.11 to Source Forge
+
+Version 5.2.11 version is a bug fix release.
+
+ 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 5.2.11
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Important changes since last release:
+ - A new bpluginfo utility tool
+ - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
+ - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
+ - Important Copy job bug fixed.
+
+10Sep12
+ - Add JobId to SD debug output
+ - Commit batch session every 800,000 files
+ - Simplify safer delete code using a single regex
+ - Clean up error message generation during update attributes -- should fix bug
+ #1823
+ - Eliminate heartbeat error messages. Fixes bug #1925
+ - Apply patch from bug #1911 to implement --with-logdir
+ - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
+ - mysql database install/update scripts patch. Fixes bug #1901
+ - Delegate uid/gid changing to systemd. Fixes bug #1905
+ - Fix bug #1906
+ - Fix manpage errors, fixes bug #1907
+ - Final fix for #1859 missed one query.
+ - bpluginfo - Utility tool display various information
+ - Backport more master code
+ - Fix Makefile.in so that testfind builds with acl dependency
+ - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
+ - backport code from master
+ - Fix #1923 about MySQL 4 support for BVFS
+ - Fix #1902 about bad status slots output
+ - Fix Sigma Copy bug #4377
+ - Fix bsmtp
+ - Reset bsmtp to only send to IPv4 mailhosts.
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1823 1859 1901 1902 1903 1905 1906 1907 1911 1923 1925 4377
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;28 June 2012 at 20:55 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.10 to Source Forge
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.10 version is a significant bug fix release including
+our first cut of AFS support.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
+of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
+directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
+destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
+any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
+we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
+you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
+to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
+is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
+that the project cannot properly support.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.9, please
+read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
+after the version you are upgrading from. There area
+many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
+repeat them each bug fix release.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.9
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Major changes since 5.2.9:
+- IPv6 networking should work correctly now
+- SQL Counter problems resolved
+- Bat hanging after running a number of jobs
+- dbcheck rw_writelock problem
+- Windows VSS restore bug
+
+New Feature:
+- Add rudimentary support for backing up AFS
+
+28Jun12
+ - Add extra test for unsupported Protocol Families.
+ - Fix inet_pton call.
+ - Real fix of bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
+ - Fix bug #1891 wrong daemon name printed with -? option
+ - Fix bug #1859 INSERT INTO Counters fails
+ - First try at fixing bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
+ - Convert write_rec_to_block() to a state machine
+ - Fix bat from eating all Dir connections -- fixes bug #1872
+ - Back port fixes from BEE to fix Windows restore bug #1892
+ - Add block checksum flag to version.h
+ - Add block checksum debug code
+ - Fix bug #1893 dbcheck -B gives rwl_writelock error.
+ - Remove restriction of network buffer size being multiple of a tape block
+ - Add rudimentary support for saving AFS acls.
+ - Send level before the fileset in estimate_cmd() like in backup()
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1859 1872 1891 1892 1893 1897
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;11 June 2012 at 20:15 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
+
+This release is identical to release 5.2.8, with the exception
+that the patch:
+
+ "Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871"
+
+has been removed because it is not portable to all systems or
+versions of readline.
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
+of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
+directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
+destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
+any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
+we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
+you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
+to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
+is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
+that the project cannot properly support.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
+read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
+after the version you are upgrading from. There area
+many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
+repeat them each bug fix release.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.8
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.7:
+--------------------
+
+10Jun12
+ - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
+ - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
+ bug #1851
+ - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
+ - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
+ - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
+ - Add more debug code for bug 1885
+ - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
+ - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
+ not fixed
+ - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
+ - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
+ - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
+ - New overhaul of xattr code.
+ - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
+ - Fix compiler warning.
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
+diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
+of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
+directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
+destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
+any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
+we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
+you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
+to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
+is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
+that the project cannot properly support.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
+read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
+after the version you are upgrading from. There area
+many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
+repeat them each bug fix release.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.6:
+--------------------
+02Jun12
+ - Correct Qt version needed for bat
+ - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
+ - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
+ - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
+ - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
+ - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
+ - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
+ - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
+ - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
+ - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
+ - Add first Dutch translation
+ - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
+ - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
+ - Remove old shared objects before install
+ - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
+ - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
+ - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
+ - Add more checks to bvfs
+ - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
+ - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
+ - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
+ - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
+ - Fix class member shadowing.
+ - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
+ - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
+ - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
+ - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
+ - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
+ - Fix restore_job restore keyword
+ - Allow plugin to backup a directory
+ - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
+ - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
+ - Backport new StorageId code
+ - More definitive fix for update slots bug
+ - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
+ - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
+ - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
+ mode.
+ - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
+ - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
+ - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
+ between two Include{}
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+New Feature:
+ - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
+ part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
+ time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
+ but */xx* will not match the above filename.
+
+Changes since 5.2.5:
+
+17Feb12
+ - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
+ - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
+ - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
+ - Make cd accept wildcards
+ - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
+ - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
+ - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
+ - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
+ - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
+ - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
+ - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
+ - Add wait on bad connection for security
+ - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
+ - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
+ - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
+ - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
+ - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
+ - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1831
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
+
+Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
+version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
+on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
+from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.4:
+
+25Jan12
+ - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
+ - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
+ - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
+ - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
+ - Fix MediaView::getSelection
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
+
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Most important changes since 5.2.3:
+- Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
+ files.
+- Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
+- Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
+- Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
+ depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
+- Compiler warning cleanups
+- xattr fixes
+- Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
+
+Changes since 5.2.3:
+
+18Jan12
+ - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
+ - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
+ - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
+ - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
+ variable
+ - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
+ - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
+ - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
+ - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
+ - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
+ test code
+ - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
+ - Fix bug #1815
+ - Fix systemd pid files.
+ - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
+ - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
+ - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
+ - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
+ - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
+ - Fix bug #1807
+ - Add configure for new redhat spec files
+ - Backport Enterprise spec files
+ - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
+ - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
+ - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
+ - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
+ - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
+ - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
+ - Add new features in plugin
+ - Add helper for ini files
+ - Implement run accurate=yes/no
+ - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
+ - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
+ - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
+ - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
+ - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
+ - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
+ - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.2, 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 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.2:
+
+ - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
+ - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
+ - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
+ - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
+ - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
+ - Fix #3419, update stats problem
+ - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
+ - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
+ - Fix segfault in accurate code
+ - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1801 3322 3419
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
+additions and performance improvements.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+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 5.2.2
+ 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
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
+
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+
+This 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
+-------------
+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.
+
+Main 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
+
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+ The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
+ restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
+ but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
+ prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
+
+Building Bat:
+-------------
+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 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 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
+gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
+copy one of the 3 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 5.2.1 (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
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
+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 5.2.1 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>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
+(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+
+================================================================
+
+Changes:
+
+Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
+- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
+- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
+- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
+ memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
+- limit command in some list commands
+- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
+- Faster crc32 algorithm
+
+Security Enhancements:
+- Additional security against injection of illegal characters
+- Fix possible fnmatch problem
+
+Features Enhancements:
+- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
+ AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
+- Tray monitor for Windows
+- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
+ backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
+ of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
+ libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
+ to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
+- Indent lsmark during restore
+- Disable batch insert config item
+- 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)
+
+Other Enhancements:
+- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
+ junction points.
+- New database format
+- Many new plugin API features
+- Improved memory handling for restores
+- Significant stability enhancements to bat
+- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
+- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
+
+
+===========================================================================
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
+
+This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
+It includes new code and some new features.
+There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
+
+Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
+ the 5.0.1 release section.
+ Important!!!
+
+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 5.0.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes and New Features:
+- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
+ it printed a warning message and continued.
+- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
+- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
+ must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
+ for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
+- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
+- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
+ it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
+ typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
+
+
+Bug fixes
+1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
+
+- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
+- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
+- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
+- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
+- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
+- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
+- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
+- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
+- Add archlinux to os.m4
+- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
+- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
+- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
+- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
+- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
+- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
+- Up maximum block size to 20M
+- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
+- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
+- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
+- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
+- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
+- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
+ catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
+- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
+ by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
+- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
+- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
+- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
+- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
+- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
+- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
+- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
+- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
+ install dir
+- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
+- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
+- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
+- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
+- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
+- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
+- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
+- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
+- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
+- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
+- Fix segfault when loading Plugins
+- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
+- Added new bacula-libs package.
+- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
+- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
+
+See ChangeLog for more details.
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
+Welcome to our new bacula.org server
+
+This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
+by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
+getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
+and we are very pleased.
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
+Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
+
+This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
+
+Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
+ Important!!!
+
+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 5.0.2
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.0.1
+-------------------
+
+Bug fixes
+1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
+
+- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
+- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
+- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
+- Fix cancel crash bug #1551
+- Check if sql backend is thread-safe
+- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
+- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
+- Rewind on close to fix #1549
+- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
+- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
+- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
+- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
+ calling db_unlock.
+- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
+- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
+- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
+- Another fix for OpenSSLv1
+- Add -lrt to Solaris links
+- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
+- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
+- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
+- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
+- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
+- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
+- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
+Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
+
+Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
+released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
+
+This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
+rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
+release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
+one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
+clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
+machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
+daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
+
+Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
+changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
+your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
+uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
+serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
+not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
+
+If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
+notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
+release there is no database upgrade needed.
+
+Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
+the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
+releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
+
+Thanks for using Bacula :-)
+
+Best regards,
+
+Kern
+
+============= Performance Note ==================
+
+Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
+database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
+mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
+accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
+change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
+versions, on a well configured database it should run
+extremely well.
+
+We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
+In general, these will cause very significant performance
+problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
+that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
+suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
+millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
+configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
+memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
+(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
+parameters is extremely important to run fast.
+
+If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
+solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
+PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
+installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
+large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
+PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
+
+==========================================
+
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
+reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
+
+Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
+features section of the manual.
+
+When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
+(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
+10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
+resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
+error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Changes since 5.0.0
+-------------------
+- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
+ concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
+ Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
+ canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
+ If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
+ a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
+
+Directives:
+- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
+ no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
+ conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
+ and was confusing.
+- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
+ section in the manual.
+- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
+
+Bug fixes:
+1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
+1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
+
+- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
+- Fix three-pool regress bug
+- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
+- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
+ docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
+ constructor.
+- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
+- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
+- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
+ #1476
+- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
+- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
+- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
+- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
+- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
+- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
+- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
+- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
+- Fix missing console page in bat
+- Add bat help files to Window install
+- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
+- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
+- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
+- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
+- Update the bsock error URL
+- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
+- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
+- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
+- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
+- Remove file_index sequential check
+- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
+
+For Packagers:
+1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
+The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
+make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
+be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
+not installed by the Makefiles
+
+2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
+mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
+required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
+any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
+
+3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
+However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
+compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
+4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
+any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
+4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
+location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
+
+If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
+have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
+rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
+built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
+this problem (bug) does not exist.
+
+depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
+you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
+build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
+rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
+(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
+use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
+
+4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
+special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
+example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
+Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
+shared objects.
+
+5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
+single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
+PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
+recommendation is:
+
+#!/bin/sh
+# Recommended configure script for Bacula
+prefix=/opt/bacula
+email=xxx@yyy.zz
+CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
+ ./configure \
+ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
+ --docdir=${prefix}/html \
+ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
+ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
+ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
+ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
+ --enable-smartalloc \
+ --enable-tray-monitor \
+ --enable-bat \
+ --with-mysql \
+ --with-dump-email=${email} \
+ --with-job-email=${email} \
+ --with-smtp-host=localhost \
+ --with-baseport=9101
+
+Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
+...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
+defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
+the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
+
+If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
+describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
+send an email to the bacula-devel list.
+
+6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
+libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
+Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
+So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
+versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
+updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
+whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
+new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
+different versions of the shared objects.
+
+7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
+routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
+to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
+This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
+that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
+consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
+enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
+completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
+use readline or not as you please.
+
+
+;;;;
+Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
+Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
+
+Release Numbering:
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
+5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
+several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
+the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
+and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
+that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
+be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
+be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
+In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
+than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
+version is more advanced or has more features than the
+Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
+is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
+will be version 4.0.0.
+
+Warning:
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
+upgrade.
+
+
+Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Bug fixes:
+1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
+1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
+1454 1455 1458 1456
+
+Fixed:
+ - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
+ responding to the bsmtp program
+ - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
+ - Fix various problems with the reload command
+ - Fix problems with conio
+ - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
+
+Enhancements:
+ - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
+ - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
+ - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
+ - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
+ - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
+ between drives
+ - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
+ checksum verification for example.
+ - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
+ - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
+ - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
+ - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
+ - Add new speed test to btape program
+ - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
+ - Windows version of Bat
+ - Added Spanish Bacula translation
+ - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
+ - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
+ to the same Pool
+ - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
+ - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
+ - Many ACL improvements
+ - Level added to FD status Job entry
+ - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
+ - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
+ - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
+
+Compatibility:
+As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
+of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
+you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
+
+Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
+Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
+as is reasonable for your situation.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
+12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
+detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
+recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
+source:
+1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
+2. Save a copy of your existing database.
+3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 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>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
+(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+================================================================
+
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
+first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
+the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
+fail and you will need to manually find and run the
+Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
+This is because the file locations are different. If you want
+to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
+uninstalling it.
+================================================================
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
+we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
+access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
+to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
+section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
+================================================================
+
+Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
+(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
+the manual for more details.
+
+============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
+
+Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
+
+1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
+ of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
+ are still some that need fixing.
+
+2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
+ not yet been done.
+
+The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
+manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
+you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
+=====
+
+
+This release includes large number of new features and changes.
+It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
+and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
+features.
+
+Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
+some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
+
+http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.
+
+;;;;
+
+
+Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
+Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
+
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
+ below. Important!!!
+
+Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
+
+Changes since 3.0.2:
+Bug fixes:
+ 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
+ 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
+
+Fixes:
+ Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
+ Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
+ Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
+ Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
+ Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
+ when doing fixup_write_error ...
+ Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
+ Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
+ Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
+ Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
+ Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
+ Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
+ Use old code for selecting file during restore.
+ Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
+ tweak space on projects file
+ Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
+ Apply Frank's slash patch
+ Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
+ 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
+ Add more info when SD connection refused
+ 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
+ Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
+ 3.0.2-accurate.patch
+ Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
+ 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
+ Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
+ 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
+ Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
+ 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
+ Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
+
+Compatibility:
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
+Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
+below. Important!!!
+
+Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
+some enhancements (see below).
+
+Changes since 3.0.1:
+
+Bug fixes:
+ 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
+ 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
+
+Fixed:
+ - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
+ - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
+ - Fix bugs in xattr code
+ - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
+ - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
+
+Enhancements:
+ - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
+ - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
+ - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
+ This is project 31 in the projects file.
+ - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
+ - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
+ - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
+ This is project 2 in the projects file.
+ - Add new Nagios plugin
+
+Compatibility:
+Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+the same time.
+
+Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
+Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
+Daemon.
+;;;;
+
Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
(included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
-http://www.bacula.org/manuals/es/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
-http://www.bacula.org/manuals/es/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
The ChangeLog has more details.
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