X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fhome-page%2Fen%2Fnews.txt;h=314ddc91a3bf3349b76d67eb5c4992728d0ac1cb;hb=c8ad0805735f1028b0961243a4942004ec6a8bd6;hp=6bd4b092da7e15940281cd70f407bcc57deedd72;hpb=fc3ced37df5a2a8e509b1c0586544074ee489a0c;p=bacula%2Fdocs diff --git a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt index 6bd4b092..314ddc91 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt @@ -1,4 +1,1184 @@ -Kern;;;18 October 2 2009 at 21:00 +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--.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-.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-.so e.g. + +cp libbaccats-postgresql-.so libbaccats-.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 +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 /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 /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. + + +;;;; +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 +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_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