+Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
+Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
+
+This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
+
+Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
+ Important!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.0.1
+-------------------
+
+Bug fixes
+1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
+
+- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
+- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
+- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
+- Fix cancel crash bug #1551
+- Check if sql backend is thread-safe
+- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
+- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
+- Rewind on close to fix #1549
+- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
+- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
+- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
+- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
+ calling db_unlock.
+- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
+- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
+- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
+- Another fix for OpenSSLv1
+- Add -lrt to Solaris links
+- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
+- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
+- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
+- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
+- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
+- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
+- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
+- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
+Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
+
+Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
+released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
+
+This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
+rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
+release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
+one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
+clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
+machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
+daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
+
+Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
+changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
+your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
+uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
+serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
+not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
+
+If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
+notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
+release there is no database upgrade needed.
+
+Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
+the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
+releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
+
+Thanks for using Bacula :-)
+
+Best regards,
+
+Kern
+
+============= Performance Note ==================
+
+Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
+database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
+mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
+accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
+change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
+versions, on a well configured database it should run
+extremely well.
+
+We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
+In general, these will cause very significant performance
+problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
+that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
+suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
+millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
+configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
+memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
+(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
+parameters is extremely important to run fast.
+
+If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
+solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
+PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
+installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
+large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
+PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
+
+==========================================
+
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
+reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
+
+Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
+features section of the manual.
+
+When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
+(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
+10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
+resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
+error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Changes since 5.0.0
+-------------------
+- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
+ concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
+ Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
+ canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
+ If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
+ a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
+
+Directives:
+- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
+ no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
+ conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
+ and was confusing.
+- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
+ section in the manual.
+- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
+
+Bug fixes:
+1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
+1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
+
+- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
+- Fix three-pool regress bug
+- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
+- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
+ docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
+ constructor.
+- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
+- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
+- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
+ #1476
+- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
+- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
+- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
+- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
+- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
+- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
+- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
+- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
+- Fix missing console page in bat
+- Add bat help files to Window install
+- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
+- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
+- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
+- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
+- Update the bsock error URL
+- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
+- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
+- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
+- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
+- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
+- Remove file_index sequential check
+- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
+
+For Packagers:
+1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
+The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
+make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
+be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
+not installed by the Makefiles
+
+2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
+mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
+required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
+any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
+
+3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
+However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
+compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
+4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
+any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
+4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
+location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
+
+If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
+have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
+rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
+built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
+this problem (bug) does not exist.
+
+depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
+you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
+build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
+rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
+(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
+use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
+
+4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
+special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
+example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
+Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
+shared objects.
+
+5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
+single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
+PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
+recommendation is:
+
+#!/bin/sh
+# Recommended configure script for Bacula
+prefix=/opt/bacula
+email=xxx@yyy.zz
+CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
+ ./configure \
+ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
+ --docdir=${prefix}/html \
+ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
+ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
+ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
+ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
+ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
+ --enable-smartalloc \
+ --enable-tray-monitor \
+ --enable-bat \
+ --with-mysql \
+ --with-dump-email=${email} \
+ --with-job-email=${email} \
+ --with-smtp-host=localhost \
+ --with-baseport=9101
+
+Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
+...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
+defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
+the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
+
+If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
+describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
+send an email to the bacula-devel list.
+
+6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
+libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
+Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
+So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
+versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
+updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
+whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
+new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
+different versions of the shared objects.
+
+7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
+routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
+to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
+This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
+that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
+consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
+enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
+completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
+use readline or not as you please.
+
+
+;;;;
Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
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