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 release notes below in
+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!!!
See ChangeLog for more details.
+=============================================================================
-============= Release 5.0.1 =================================
+
+============= Release 5.0.2 ========================
Changes since 5.0.1
-------------------
- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
+=============================================================================
+
+
+============= Release 5.0.1 ========================
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE FOR 5.0.0 USERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
+++ /dev/null
- Release 3.0 Status
-
-Target:
- Release before 15 April
-
-New features implemented:
-- Accurate Backup
-- Copy Jobs
-- ACL code overhaul
-- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
-- Extended Attribute support
- --disable-xattr (default=auto)
-- Shared Objects
- --enable-libtool (default)
- --disable-libtool
-- Virtual Backup
-- Catalog Format Enhancements
- - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
- - New stats tables
-- Duplicate Job Control
-- TLS Authentication
-- bextract non-portable Win32 data
-- State File updated at Job Termination
-- Bacula Plugins
- - FD bpipe plugin
- - FD Exchange plugin
-- libdbi DB driver
-- Console Enhancements
- - status slots
- - list joblog
- - command separator
-- Bootstrap regex
-- Restore seek optimization
-- Virtual Tape Emulation
-- Bat Enhancements
-- RunScript Enhancements
-- Status enhancements
-- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
-- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
-- FD Version compatibily flag
-- Statistics Enhancements
-- Faster Attribute despooling
-- Document split into 6 manuals
-- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
-- Win64 File daemon
-- Postmortum dump improvements in SD
-- Deadlock mutex detection in SD
-- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
-- New configure install options
- --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
- --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
- --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
-- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
- New Directives:
-- Max Full Interval
-- Max Diff Interval
-- Honor No Dump Flag
-- Exclude Dirs Containing
-- Recycle Pool
-- Max Run Sched Time
-- Max Wait Time
-- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
-- Scratch Pool
-- Max Console Connections
-- Spool Size (in Job resource)
-- Allow Mixed Priorities
-- Allow Duplicate Jobs
-- Allow Higher Duplicates
-- Cancel Queued Duplicates
-- Cancel Running Duplicates
-- TLS Authenticate
-- Console (in RunScript)
-
-New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
- also listed above:
-Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
-Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
-Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
-Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
-Item 8: Implement Copy pools
-Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
-Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
-Item 18: Better control over Job execution
-Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
-Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
-Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
-Item n: Split documentation into several books
-
-Features that will not be completed in 3.0:
-- Plugin Options
-- Dir plugin implementation somewhat minimal
-- No example Dir plugin
-- SD plugin implementation somewhat minimal
-- No example SD plugin
-- Install manual should be split into Install a
- separate Configuration manual.
-- Not all new features are tested or tested well
- enough
-- Normal (as opposed to command) plugins are not yet
- implemented (these are plugins can register to receive
- specific backup/restore events).
- See section 3.1 of the manual for more details.