+kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET
+
+ Bacula Developer's Conference
+ 27-28 September 2010
+ Yverdon-les-Bains
+ Switzerland
+
+Are you interested in:
+
+- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
+- Learning how we maintain the source code.
+- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
+- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
+- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
+- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
+- Hearing from Bacula users.
+
+If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
+Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
+and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
+Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
+Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
+
+This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
+users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are
+or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
+sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
+
+
+Sunday 26 Sept.
+ Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
+ Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and
+ optional.
+
+
+Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
+ Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
+ formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
+
+ Tentative program:
+ - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
+ - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
+ - Bacula in Brazil
+ - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
+ - Bacula development process
+ - Bacula Roadmap
+ - Bweb
+
+Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
+ Birds of a feather meetings:
+ Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning,
+ organizing, ...
+ - Using git
+ - How patches are integrated
+ - Regression testing
+ - CDash regression dashboard
+ - Release cycle
+ - Roadmap discussion and input
+ - How Bacula plugins work
+ ...
+
+Your input needed:
+
+We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
+the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
+formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
+like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+
+
+;;;;
+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
-Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
+kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET
+
+ Bacula Developer's Conference
+ 27-28 September 2010
+ Yverdon-les-Bains
+ Switzerland
+
+Are you interested in:
+
+- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
+- Learning how we maintain the source code.
+- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
+- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
+- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
+- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
+- Hearing from Bacula users.
+
+If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
+Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
+and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
+Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
+Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
+
+This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
+users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are
+or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
+sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
+
+
+Sunday 26 Sept.
+ Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
+ Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and
+ optional.
+
+
+Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
+ Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
+ formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
+
+ Tentative program:
+ - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
+ - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
+ - Bacula in Brazil
+ - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
+ - Bacula development process
+ - Bacula Roadmap
+ - Bweb
+
+Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
+ Birds of a feather meetings:
+ Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning,
+ organizing, ...
+ - Using git
+ - How patches are integrated
+ - Regression testing
+ - CDash regression dashboard
+ - Release cycle
+ - Roadmap discussion and input
+ - How Bacula plugins work
+ ...
+
+Your input needed:
+
+We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
+the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
+formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
+like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+
+
+;;;;
+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.
Source program.
<br>
<br>
+<font size="+1">
+ You are invited to a Bacula Developer's conference the 27th and
+ 28th of September 2010 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
+ For more, please see the following page:
+ <a href="?page=conference">Bacula Developer's Conference</a>.
+ <br>
+ <br>
+</font>
<table width="759" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
</tr>
<tr height="68">
<td height="68">
- <p>28 April 2010: <strong>Bacula 5.0.2</strong> has been released.</p>
+ <p>06 August 2010: <strong>Bacula 5.0.3</strong> has been released.</p>
<p></p>
<p>See: <a href="http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=news">News</a></p>
</td>
Most of the <b>Bacula</b> source code is released under the
- <b>GPL</b> version 2 license. If you wish additional
+ <b>AGPL</b> version 3 license. If you wish additional
details, please follow the License link to your left.<br>
<br>The Documentation link takes you to a page where you
<h3>GPL</h3>
The vast bulk of the code is released under the
- <a href="rel-manual/gpl.html">GNU General Public License version 2.</a>
+ <a href="rel-manual/gpl.html">GNU Affero General Public License version 3.</a>
Most of this code is copyrighted:
- Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation Europe, e.V.
+ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Free Software Foundation Europe, e.V.
<p>Portions may be copyrighted by other people (ATT, the
Free Software Foundation, ...).
<h3>LGPL</h3>
+kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET
+
+ Bacula Developer's Conference
+ 27-28 September 2010
+ Yverdon-les-Bains
+ Switzerland
+
+Are you interested in:
+
+- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
+- Learning how we maintain the source code.
+- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
+- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
+- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
+- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
+- Hearing from Bacula users.
+
+If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
+Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
+and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
+Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
+Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
+
+This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
+users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are
+or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
+sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
+
+
+Sunday 26 Sept.
+ Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
+ Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and
+ optional.
+
+
+Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
+ Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
+ formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
+
+ Tentative program:
+ - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
+ - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
+ - Bacula in Brazil
+ - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
+ - Bacula development process
+ - Bacula Roadmap
+ - Bweb
+
+Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
+ Birds of a feather meetings:
+ Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning,
+ organizing, ...
+ - Using git
+ - How patches are integrated
+ - Regression testing
+ - CDash regression dashboard
+ - Release cycle
+ - Roadmap discussion and input
+ - How Bacula plugins work
+ ...
+
+Your input needed:
+
+We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
+the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
+formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
+like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+
+
+;;;;
+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
+kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET
+
+ Bacula Developer's Conference
+ 27-28 September 2010
+ Yverdon-les-Bains
+ Switzerland
+
+Are you interested in:
+
+- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
+- Learning how we maintain the source code.
+- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
+- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
+- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
+- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
+- Hearing from Bacula users.
+
+If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
+Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
+and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
+Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
+Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
+
+This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
+users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are
+or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
+sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
+
+
+Sunday 26 Sept.
+ Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
+ Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and
+ optional.
+
+
+Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
+ Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
+ formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
+
+ Tentative program:
+ - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
+ - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
+ - Bacula in Brazil
+ - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
+ - Bacula development process
+ - Bacula Roadmap
+ - Bweb
+
+Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
+ Birds of a feather meetings:
+ Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning,
+ organizing, ...
+ - Using git
+ - How patches are integrated
+ - Regression testing
+ - CDash regression dashboard
+ - Release cycle
+ - Roadmap discussion and input
+ - How Bacula plugins work
+ ...
+
+Your input needed:
+
+We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
+the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
+formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
+like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+
+
+;;;;
+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