X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2FReleaseNotes;h=777ada942859d2e8b9b0e6d270a124596b35ebaf;hb=b56d7b6ad8ed88f350867e8860c38ecdc92eef80;hp=1c33046e90ca8c1b179815f2fbc53951de7f2b65;hpb=c69ced1ef48660172d821d5440f51ec7d9d7c239;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index 1c33046e90..777ada9428 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,59 +1,349 @@ - Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.9 - Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + Bacula code: Total files = 498 Total lines = 167,596 (*.h *.c *.in) + 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3 -The major features are: -- First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool) +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0. + +Version 2.2.10 is primarily a Storage daemon reservations system + enhancement to 2.2.9-beta +16Apr08 +kes Permit multiple simultaneous restores -- experiment. +15Apr08 +kes Backport development stream SD reservation system changes. + See below: +=== +16Apr08 +kes Move final volume swapping code to DCR method and + call it from acquire_for_read(). +kes When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger. +14Apr08 +kes Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the + same volume name twice in a row. +13Apr08 +kes Tweak the swap Volume from one drive to another code so that + it now seems to work. +kes Resolve several problems with recycling that broke the new + code (these problems are in 2.2.9 as well). +kes Remove the volume lock when calling the sysop code. +kes Don't mark a reserved volume with no writers as unused otherwise + jobs fail. +12Apr08 +kes Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make + the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically + handling the responsibilities. +11Apr08 +kes Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just + causes a seg fault in many cases. +kes Cleanup releasing a volume and make it a DCR method. +kes Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and + swapping volumes. +10Apr08 +kes Tweak volume swapping code so it works. +kes Correct name overloading in mount.c +kes Replace released flag in VOLRES with reserved and add access + methods for the VOLRES class. +kes Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. +kes Refactor parts of stored/mount.c +09Apr08 +ebl Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime +ebl Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime + and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066 +kes Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c +kes Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to + autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code. +08Apr08 +kes Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job. +kes Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking + the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by + another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it. +=== + +Version 2.2.9 is a bug fix to version 2.2.8: +- Close bat console windows first to eliminate error message + from the notifier. +- Remove useless code in Scheduler that causes seg fault on + termination. +- Correct some SD catalog request error messages. +- Don't allow pruning of any running job. +- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD + when reading past an EOS_LABEL. +- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just + causes problems. +- Lock volumes when unreserving a device. +- Do not mark volume unused when recycling. +- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger. +- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when + running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo + for excellent analysis and testing. +- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9 + Mostly SD reservations enhancements. +- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination + of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038. +- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration. +- Implements autostart scripts for Debian +- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program. +- Apply doc fix from bug #1062. +- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore + GUI. Fixes bug #1065. +- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version. +- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should + fix bug #1046. +- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups() +- Undo bug #1047 heap overrun fix as it is not correct. +- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem. +- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include + proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs. +- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links. +- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on + the ./configure line. +- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information + in job report. + +Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030, + 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers, + and are difficult to reproduce. + See the ChangeLog for more details. + +Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes + since version 2.2.6: +- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020 + 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file. +- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on + exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c +- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now + possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg. +- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical + bar, thanks to the above patch. +- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from + Nerijus Baliunas. +- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL + driver with version 8.3. +- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir + +Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.5 +- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991, + 993, 986, 976. +- Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director. +- Fix joblist failure bug in bat. + +Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4 +- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960, + 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954, + 957, 908, 958, and 955. +- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed + out by Chris Howells. + +Version 2.2.4 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.3 +- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953. +- Possible fix for bug #908. +- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid + file to always be deleted. +- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property. + This fixes bug #950. +- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully + trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking. + Fixes bug #906. +- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This + should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices + are released as soon as possible. +- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not + have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point + in bug #942, but not the main problem. +- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes + by skipping |. Fixes bug #936. +- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using + TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU. +- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works + as expected. +- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions + and not memory usage. + +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. + +Version 2.2.3 is a critical bug fix release to version 2.2.2 +- Fix bug #935, and possibly also bug #903 where files were not + restored. MediaId was not properly set in JobMedia record after + a Volume change. This bug is known to affect all versions from + 2.0.0 on, and probably versions prior to that. A detailed analysis + of the bug can be found at: + + http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-395.txt + +- Add ./configure search in qwt-qt4 for qwt package +- Apply Martin Simmons patch that should turn off the new API usage + when batch insert is turned off allowing building on older + PostgreSQLs. +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. + +Version 2.2.2 is a minor bug fix release to 2.2.1 +- Detect if new PosgreSQL batch insert API is present. +- Correct incorrect mempool call causing Director crash on older + systems that do not have va_copy(). +- Update spec files for 2.2.1 release + +Version 2.2.1 is mainly a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.0, + the main changes since 2.2.0 are: +- Fixed bugs #921, 930, and 923. +- More portable timezone offset in bsmtp thaks to Attila Fülöp. +- Fix several bat issues. +- Use GTK+ calls instead of egg files in tray-monitor. +- Win32 service routines rewritten +- Updated projects file +Please see the ChangeLog for details. + +Notes on 2.2.0 release follow: + +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with + bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris. +- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'. + This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity + of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly. + The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h +- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please + test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse + points. +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. +- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build + bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you + must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt + (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools + must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley. - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). -- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times). -- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files. +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). -- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance. -- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces + swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent + implemented. - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. -- New Recycle Pool feature. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright + mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice. + +New ./configure options: +- --enable-bwx-console +- --enable-bat +- --with-qwt= +- --with-db-name= +- --with-db-user= +- --enable-batch-insert + +New bconsole commands: +- exec +- memory +- update recyclepool +- .sql +- .api +- .pwd (in restore tree) +- restoreclient (keyword) +- backupclient (keyword) +- regexwhere (keyword) +- update jobid (new command) +- recyclepool (keyword) + +New directives: +- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf) +- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage) +- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client) +- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool) +- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript) +- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) +- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) Other features or bug fixes: -- Fixed bugs: 846, 809, 772, 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, - 798, 795, 789, 791, 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, - 775, 621, 772, 764, 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, - 747, 742, 744, and 743. -- Only the minumum number of volumes are pruned rather than - all volumes in the pool. -- wx-console renamed to bwx-console -- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console +- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907, + 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872 + 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859, + 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772, + 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791, + 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764, + 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743. +- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with + --with-qwt=. See Installation chapter of manual for details. +- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are + needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both + these packages in the distro. +- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead + of prepending. +- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the + Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount + directives are defined. +- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries. +- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor. + Use the command line or the Services panne. +- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool. +- More debug output in status storage. +- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some + critical columns were lost). +- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems, + which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which + should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly + (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but + concurrent jobs should run much faster. +- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of + the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers. +- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume, + pool and media type when a job is waiting. +- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers. +- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c +- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request) +- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request) - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId - Spooling implemented for migration jobs. - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading | in front of the configuration path/filename. - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's - memory usage, and a in use buffer dump. -- Solaris door and event port files are no longer restored. + memory usage, and an in use buffer dump. - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32 filename restrictions. -- Corrected Win32 ftruncate bug. +- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug. - Additional version information added to Job reports. - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type. - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there is already a < in the target. -- Perfer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being +- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being mounted by another job. - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted. - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command. - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape. - Drop from root done before database is opened. -- database user and name can be configured with: +- Database user and name can be configured with: --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user -- turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. -- rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. +- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. +- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. This appears to have been an unreported bug. - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust - Better restricted console ACL checking. @@ -66,5 +356,10 @@ Other features or bug fixes: - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries. - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed. - - +- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to + which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies + the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is + not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client. +- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the + catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape + and DVD).