-Kern;;;2006/02/266;;;14:30
-The Bacula Version 1.38.6-beta2 patch file has been released to the
-bacula-patches area of Source Forge.
+Kern;;;2006/04/03;;;14:30
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.6
- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.6-beta2
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 418 Total lines = 136,328 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 419 Total lines = 137,078 (*.h *.c *.in)
20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
+!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ If you have problems with segment faults on 64 bit machine,
+ please modify the build so that the code is compiled with the
+ -O0 (- oh zero) option otherwise the SD will crash on most all
+ operations -- apparently due to a compiler bug in gcc's 64 bit
+ code generation.
+
+ The bad code generation appears to be a compiler "bug", and
+ it occurs in all version prior to the released 1.38.6. In
+ version 1.38.6, I have found what appear to be a workaround.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
New features:
- For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if
no appendable Volumes are available.
which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can
be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot
correctly detect the DVD.
+- Faster restore tree building and uses less memory.
+- The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the
+ name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers
+ as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers
+ to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each
+ job.
+- The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways
+ of displaying the information.
+- The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids.
+- New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They
+ are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn.
+- Add two new console commands: enable job=<job-name> and
+ disable job=<job-name>. When a job is disabled, it will not
+ be started by the scheduler. If you disable a job and restart
+ Bacula or reload the .conf file, the job will be re-enabled.
+- Add a new Job resource directive "enable = yes|no".
Major bug fixes:
- Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where
both drives want the same Volume.
- Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console
if it is not in ACL.
+- Writable FIFOs now work for restore.
+- ACLs are now checked in all dot commands.
+- Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers
+ should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names,
+ update slots use correct StorageId).
+- Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed
+ while in the reservation process.
+
Minor bug fixes:
- See below:
+Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06
+28Mar06
+- Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr()
+ and new jcr chain locking.
+26Mar06
+- Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts.
+- Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm.
+- Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid
+ as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible.
+25Mar06
+- Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
+ bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
+ bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
+ bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
+ bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
+- Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574.
+- Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c
+- Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple
+ threads by bashing in a local.
+- Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error
+ message rather than nothing.
+- Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs
+ are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape.
+- Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid
+ possible non-release of reservation_lock().
+- Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between
+ reservation lock and device mutex.
+- Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch.
+- Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for
+ tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build.
+- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
+ Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
+- Implement regex test program in tools directory.
+- Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs.
+- Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user.
+
+Release 1.38.6 beta6 16Mar06
+- Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for
+ restore, if polling is turned on.
+- Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's
+ problem.
+- Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid.
+- If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to
+ the working-dir. Fixes bug #533.
+- If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD.
+ Fixes bugs #566 and 557.
+- Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict.
+
+Release 1.38.6 beta5 14Mar06
+- Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
+- Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
+- Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
+ records to get to seek position.
+- Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
+- Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
+ terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
+ SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
+ mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
+ use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
+- Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
+ lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
+- Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
+ multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
+- Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
+- Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
+ system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
+ This could possibly fix bug #543.
+- Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
+
+Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
+04Mar06
+- The po files should now be current.
+- Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
+ buffers in all cases.
+- Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
+- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
+ to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
+ be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
+- Allow listing by any of the above.
+- Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
+ and rates with suffexes.
+- Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
+- Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
+ Bacula.
+- Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
+- Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
+- Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
+- Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
+
+26Feb06
+- Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
+- Update the po files at Eric's request.
+
Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
25Feb06
- Add sql_use_result() define.
all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure
to use user=bacula.
-
Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
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