From 405053da6c4435d8a1f2fa43ca00e8245c10f1fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:27:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes git-svn-id: https://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bacula/trunk@4811 91ce42f0-d328-0410-95d8-f526ca767f89 --- bacula/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ bacula/ReleaseNotes | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/bacula/ChangeLog b/bacula/ChangeLog index 19545c6d22..1f49d69cfc 100644 --- a/bacula/ChangeLog +++ b/bacula/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ Technical notes on version 2.1 General: +16May07 +kes First cut of adding .mod to the run command. +kes Implement auto display of messages in bat. +kes Enhanced preferences to allow all Bacula output to be + displayed in bat. 15May07 kes Fixed bug #856 autochanger documentation. kes Rework bsmtp date editing for Win32. This fixes bug #854. diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index b920f9d94a..d81d03aa91 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -9,21 +9,39 @@ use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should not have to upgrade all your File daemons. However, bat works only with a 2.1.8 Director. -The major features are: +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have Qt4 loaded to build bat +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- The Volume management in the Storage daemon is extensively rewritten. + It appears to function much better, but is largely untested under + severe stress conditions (multiple drive autochangers, ...). +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow. +- Socket level heartbeat is untested. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- Solaris is untested +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. - First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you must have the Qt4 libraries loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 - tools must be available. + tools must be available. bat is ALPHA software. A large part + of the work was done by Dirk Bartley. - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). -- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times). -- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files. +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance. - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. -- New Recycle Pool feature. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, -- 2.39.5