X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2FReleaseNotes;h=0f9ecaf83470e2a74d3448cd1125dc385b599757;hb=8694fe83738792584b6c7c1a42a6225159dbf998;hp=706ae2038a36baadb4b69bc165f01859384625a6;hpb=ad5c87831b59ed50b3030c592fa03834dad7272f;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index 706ae2038a..0f9ecaf834 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,392 +1,481 @@ - Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0 - - Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) - -==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== -- The database format has been updated from what was used in - Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before - running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied - RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically. - Please backup your previous version of the database before - running the update. The update script will be automatically - installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in - /src/cats. It is called: - - ./update_bacula_tables - - It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to - a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not - require updating the database again. Depending on the size of - your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but - in general, it should be very fast. - -==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== - For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special - needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of - automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula - directory mostly out of paranoia. - -==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== -- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it - should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is - no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to - incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up - on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times - previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console. -- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been - removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all - occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage - daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount. -- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man - directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and - mandir/man1 as appropriate. -- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director - and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, - data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. -- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. -- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method - of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last - device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it - will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource - with the correct MediaType. -- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary - format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify - jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 - difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by - default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using - the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more - more testing is still needed. -- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses - the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 - kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. - This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels. -- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please - be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options - with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot - be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption - carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup - with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified - and fixed it as follows: - As of 1.39.27: - No filters = Works fine - Sparse = Works fine - Compression = Works fine - Encryption = Works fine - Sparse + Compression = Works fine - - Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken - Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken - Compression + Encryption = Restore broken - - As of 1.39.28: - Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are - not properly restored. - - As of 1.39.30: - All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. - - Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring - data to be sure it all works correctly. -- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from - the format written by previous versions. The two formats - are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will - be unreadable by version 1.39.22. -- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia - data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect - seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to - be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the - following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage - daemon conf file: - - Block Positioning = no - - This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid - this problem. -- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default. -- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" -- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual. - -New Features in 2.0.0: -- Turn on disk seek code for restores. -- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula - messages for French. To install it, first configure and build - Bacula, then as root run: - - cd /po - make install - - If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated - messages. -- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new - Migration chapter in the manual - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html -- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in - a new chapter of the manual at: - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html -- Additional support for removable devices. See the - Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount - Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html - Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the - same chapter. -- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 - cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, - then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the - cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but - also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added - all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on - drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... -- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. - This code is working but should still be tested carefully - before putting into production. -- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to - any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, - the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks - to Thorsten Engel for this code. -- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now - eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using - Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths - in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including - the drive letter. -- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes - the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features - plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect - of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 -- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. -- 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" - This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the - next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during - the weekend. -- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do: - wait (wait for all jobs to stop) - wait jobid=nn - wait jobuid=unique id - wait job=job-name -- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they - are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. - Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) -- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the - job report in the Log database table. -- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point - of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer. -- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents - the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, - the job can be manually started from the console. -- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits - can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate - table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId. -- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in - the restore cd command. -- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling - will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric - Bollengier. -- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as - conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters - are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. -- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. -- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles - spaces in names better, ... -- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. -- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect - any Catalog ACL. -- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in - the restore command. -- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. - patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de -- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. - from Eric Bollengier. -- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field - in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. -- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. - display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). -- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. -- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ -- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only - the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any - path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control - over where users can restore files. This is untested. -- Install man pages with 'make install'. -- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c -- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work -- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. -- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb. -- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status - command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. -- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that - triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer -- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" -- Implement mount command for autochanger -- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called - from File= was not found. -- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to - do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not - have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. - Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. -- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that - creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by - Andrew J. Millar. -- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by - Christian Masopust. -- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they - appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore - listing where they could be "lost". -- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix - correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. - Bug # 506. -- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. -- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One - list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other - lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). -- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This - should get Bacula into the correct groups. -- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive - and mount, unmount directives. -- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks - to a user submission. -- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed - in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount - devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to - changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the - device will be blocked. -- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. -- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override - all other Storage specifications. -- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. -- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes - from a database table for restore. -- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are - designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. -- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to - accept time qualifiers. -- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as - suggested by Eric Bollengier. -- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and - Job Level, only during JobInit event. -- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname - to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to - be the numeric (non-unique) job id. -- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only - one at a time). -- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from - Sebastian Stark -- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: - bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts - bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director - bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon - bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon -- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must - explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. -- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing - wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. -- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. -- Apply patch from Christopher Hull - - Allow multiple connections to database with different - parameters. - - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg - fault, but still 60 second window. - - Additional info in Reschedule message. - - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of - cancel, error. - - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. - - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. - - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. - - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. - - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). - - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. - - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. -- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard - routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by - author of bug #565. -- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher - Hull. -- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. -- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. - O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without - updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which - happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also - prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but - only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup - programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both - categories). - You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: - noatime = yes - The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except - it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. -- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. -- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: - Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table - Delete MAC table - Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) - Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record - Add Cost to Location table. - Enabled to Media table and Location table. -- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors - and forcing a 6 second wait. -- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags - -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to - eliminate the security problems associated with using the - system libraries print routines. -- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool - came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, - it is all very complicated. -- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed - for restore. -- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this - class. -- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery - chapter of the manual -- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. -- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. -- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives. -- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software - Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, - and the LICENSE file has been updated. -- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource - Mail On Success directive. -- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job - report. -- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which - are printed in the Job report. - -Additional Features Added for Win32: -- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet - resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There - is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that - has the concept of drives. - -- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet - resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. - - When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the - Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. - - Patterns conform to Posix - \ is not a special character in character classification [] - To match a - it must be the first or last character - To match a ] it must be the first character - - fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / - so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path - -- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match - against the filename portion. This in combination with the - FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = - abc*.def work as expected. - -- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. - - Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. - - # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.3 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,088 Total lines = 219,172 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- + +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. + +============================================================================= + + +============= Release 5.0.2 ======================== + +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 + +============================================================================= + + +============= Release 5.0.1 ======================== + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE FOR 5.0.0 USERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +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 /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 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. + +========================================================== + + + +Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.0 + +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 Concurent 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 +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 /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_1.html + +The ChangeLog has more details.