From: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:07:42 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Tweak newbsfeatures chapter
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Tweak newbsfeatures chapter
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diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/newbsfeatures.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/newbsfeatures.tex
index 6a762b3e..c1b93531 100644
--- a/docs/manuals/en/main/newbsfeatures.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/newbsfeatures.tex
@@ -11,28 +11,95 @@ chapter.
 
 \subsection{BWeb Bacula Configuration GUI}
 
-In Bacula version 6.2, the BWeb Management Suite integrates a Bacula
-configuration GUI module which is designed to help you configure the Bacula
-configuration files such as bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf, bacula-fd.conf and
-bconsole.conf.
+In Bacula Enterprise version 6.2, the BWeb Management Suite integrates a
+Bacula configuration GUI module which is designed to help you create and
+modify the Bacula configuration files such as bacula-dir.conf,
+bacula-sd.conf, bacula-fd.conf and bconsole.conf.
 
 The BWeb Management Suite offers a number of Wizards which support the
 Administrator in his daily work. The wizards provide a step by step set of
-required actions that graphically guide the Administrator to perform quick and
-easy creation and modification of configuration files.  
+required actions that graphically guide the Administrator to perform quick
+and easy creation and modification of configuration files.
 
-BWeb also provides diagnostic tools that enable the Administrator to check that
-the Catalog Database is well configured, and that BWeb is installed properly.
+BWeb also provides diagnostic tools that enable the Administrator to check
+that the Catalog Database is well configured, and that BWeb is installed
+properly.
 
-The new Online help mode displays automatic help text suggestions when the user
-searches data types.
+The new Online help mode displays automatic help text suggestions when the
+user searches data types.
 
-\bsysimageH{bweb_bconfig_screen}{Configuration with BWeb Mangement Suite}{fig:BwebBconfigScreen}
+\bsysimageH{bweb_bconfig_screen}{Configuration with BWeb Management Suite}{fig:BwebBconfigScreen}
 
 \smallskip
 This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with the Bacula
 Enterprise Edition.
 
+\subsection{Performance Improvements}
+Bacula Enterprise 6.2 has a number of new performance improvements:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item An improved way of storing Bacula Resources (as defined in
+the .conf files). This new handling permits much faster loading or
+reloading of the conf files, and permits larger numbers of resources.
+
+\item Improved performance when inserting large numbers of files in
+the DB catalog by breaking the insertion into smaller chunks, thus
+allowing better sharing when running multiple simultaneous jobs.
+
+\item Performance enhancements in BVFS concerning eliminating 
+duplicate path records.
+
+\item Performance improvement when getting Pool records.
+
+\item Pruning performance enhancements.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection{Enhanced Status and Error Messages}
+We have enhanced the Storage daemon status output to be more
+readable. This is important when there are a large number of
+devices. In addition to formatting changes, it also includes more
+details on which devices are reading and writing.
+
+A number of error messages have been enhanced to have more specific
+data on what went wrong.
+
+If a file changes size while being backed up the old and new size
+are reported.
+
+\subsection{Miscellaneous New Features}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Allow unlimited line lengths in .conf files (previously limited
+to 2000 characters).
+
+\item Allow /dev/null in ChangerCommand to indicated a Virtual Autochanger.
+
+\item Add a --fileprune option to the manual_prune.pl script.
+
+\item Add a -m option to make_catalog_backup.pl to do maintenance
+on the catalog.
+
+\item Safer code that cleans up the working directory when starting
+the daemons. It limits what files can be deleted, hence enhances 
+security.
+
+\item Added a new .ls command in bconsole to permit browsing a client's
+filesystem.
+
+\item Fixed a number of bugs, includes some obscure seg faults, and a
+race condition that occurred infrequently when running Copy, Migration,
+or Virtual Full backups.
+
+\item Included a new vSphere library version, which will hopefully
+fix some of the more obscure bugs.
+
+\item Upgraded to a newer version of Qt4 for bat. All indications
+are that this will improve bat's stability on Windows machines.
+
+\item The Windows installers now detect and refuse to install on
+an OS that does not match the 32/64 bit value of the installer.
+\end{itemize}
+
+
 \section{Bacula Enterprise 6.0.6}
 
 \subsection{Incremental Accelerator Plugin for NetApp}
@@ -137,7 +204,7 @@ does not apply to Restore jobs, which are normally started by
 hand.  A reasonable value for this directive is one half the number
 of drives that the Storage resource has rounded down.  Doing so,
 will leave the same number of drives for writing and will generally
-avoid over commiting drives and a deadlock.
+avoid over committing drives and a deadlock.
 
 
 \section{Bacula Enterprise 6.0.4}