1 Technical notes on version 1.38
5 Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06
7 - Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr()
8 and new jcr chain locking.
10 - Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts.
11 - Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm.
12 - Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid
13 as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible.
15 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
16 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
17 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
18 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
19 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
21 - Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574.
22 - Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c
23 - Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple
24 threads by bashing in a local.
25 - Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error
26 message rather than nothing.
27 - Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs
28 are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape.
29 - Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid
30 possible non-release of reservation_lock().
31 - Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between
32 reservation lock and device mutex.
33 - Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch.
35 - Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for
36 tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build.
38 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
39 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
41 - Implement regex test program in tools directory.
42 - Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs.
43 - Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user.
46 - Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for
47 restore, if polling is turned on.
48 - Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's
50 - Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid.
51 - If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to
52 the working-dir. Fixes bug #533.
53 - If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD.
54 Fixes bugs #566 and 557.
55 - Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict.
59 - Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
60 - Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
61 - Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
62 records to get to seek position.
63 - Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
64 - Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
65 terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
66 SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
67 mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
68 use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
69 - Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
70 lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
71 - Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
72 multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
73 - Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
74 - Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
75 system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
76 This could possibly fix bug #543.
77 - Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
80 - Use John Kodis' edit_with_suffix code to edit VolBytes.
81 - Backport some fixes for acquire.c. Most importantly, to explicitly
82 have a reserved_device flag for acquire_for_read(). Hopefully
83 this will correct the remaining issues with failed restores holding
85 - Add a job_canceled() check in SD command loop.
87 Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
89 - The po files should now be current.
90 - Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
92 - Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
93 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
94 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
95 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
96 - Allow listing by any of the above.
97 - Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
98 and rates with suffexes from John Kodis <kodis at comcast.net>.
99 - Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
100 - Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
102 - Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
103 - Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
104 - Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
105 - Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
108 - Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
109 - Update the po files at Eric's request.
111 Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
113 - Add sql_use_result() define.
115 Release 1.38.6 beta1 24Feb06
117 - Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
120 - Add virtual disk autochanger code.
121 - Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
122 correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
123 - Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
124 - Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
126 - When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
127 exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
128 for a Scratch Volume.
129 - Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
130 - Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
131 - Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
132 - Check that user supplied a value before referencing
133 it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
134 - Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
135 - Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
136 updating all volumes in a Pool.
137 - Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
138 - Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
139 two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
140 - Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
142 - Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
143 a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
144 - Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
146 - Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
147 - Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
148 up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
149 - Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
151 - Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
152 - Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
153 all Volumes in a pool.
155 Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
157 - Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
159 - Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
160 so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
161 - Allow users to specify user/group and start options
162 for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
164 Release 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
166 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
167 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
168 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
170 - Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
171 pool by releasing free buffers.
173 - Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
174 - Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
176 - Make db_lock() mutex error fail the job rather than abort
177 Bacula. Canceling the job caused the mutex to fail.
178 - Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
179 number of items goes to zero.
180 - Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
181 so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
183 - Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
184 and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
185 These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
186 a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
187 messages will generally print for each JobId because they
188 represent the different problems with either the same drive
189 or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
190 of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
191 or greater is enabled in the SD.
193 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
194 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
195 the job can be manually started from the console.
196 - During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
197 StorageId is zero (old Media records).
201 - Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned
202 slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer.
203 - Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs.
204 - Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the
205 drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes
208 - Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time.
210 - Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file
211 differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h
212 hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c
213 util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto
215 - Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The
216 incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking
217 routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed
218 from under the walk routines.
220 Release 1.38.3 05Jan06:
222 - Move the suitable_drive flag to a better place to prevent
223 premature termination of the reservation if all drives
224 are busy -- should fix Arno's diff/inc pool failures.
226 - Add mutex to single thread VSS code in Win32.
228 Beta release 23Dec05:
230 - Add OPENSSL_INC to console dependencies, lib dependencies, and
231 wx-console dependencies in Makefile.in
232 - Add OPENSSL INC/LIB to gnome2_console Makefile.in.
233 - Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
234 volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait
236 - Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
237 - Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and
238 it is not an autochanger.
239 - Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
240 This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
241 rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
242 file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
243 - Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
244 if the device is open or not. This should eliminate
246 - Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
247 - Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
248 - Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
249 code. This should fix bug #500.
251 - Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
252 - Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
254 - If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
256 - Delete old bnet packet code.
257 - Ignore new BNET_START_SELECT and BNET_END_SELECT signals in
259 - Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
260 only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug
262 Beta release 20Dec05:
264 - Fix seg fault in exit of acquire when canceling a job --
265 reported by Wolfgang Denk
267 - Implement load balancing code.
268 - Pull a few files from 1.39 where we can maintain compatibility.
269 - Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
270 more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
271 jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
273 - Remove quotes from Version table name -- it breaks things.
274 - Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
275 - Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
277 - Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
278 - Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
279 - Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
280 Beta release 14Dec05:
282 - Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
283 for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
284 - Add quotes around table Version because of
285 error in MySQL 4.1.15 -- bug report submitted.
286 - Correct some minor problems with btape in the fill
288 - Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
289 - Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
290 - Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
291 and always open nonblocking.
292 - Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
293 - Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
294 - Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
296 - With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
299 - Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
300 - When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
301 - Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
302 - Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
304 - Use localhost if no network configured
306 - Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
307 - Remove debug print.
308 - Add bail_out in error during state file reading.
309 Beta release 10Dec05:
311 - Merge updates into 1.38 branch
312 - Update specs to include mysql4 define.
313 - Stop read_record() if status not ok in second loop.
314 - Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
315 and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan
316 to get FileIndex at EOT correct.
317 - Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
319 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
320 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
322 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
323 to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
326 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
328 - Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
329 from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
331 - Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
332 Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
333 - Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
334 errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
335 - Add sanity check in append.c to ensure that dcr is not NULL.
336 This can happen if multiple drive autochanger SCSI control
337 channel and drive indicies do not correspond.
339 - Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
340 - Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
341 - Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
343 - Add back next_vol index code so that two drive autochangers can get
345 - Change a bunch of debug levels to aid debugging autochangers.
346 - Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
347 - Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
350 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
351 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
352 'list nextvol days=xx'
355 My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
356 next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
359 - Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
360 - Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
362 - Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
364 - Correct some more editing of JobId's (for 64 bit compatibility).
365 - Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
366 - Add Migration Job to Job.
367 - Change Start Storage daemon job to require read and write storage
369 - Pass read storage data to SD as well as write storage data.
370 - Remove old code from winservice.cpp
371 - Break on error in scan.
372 - Fix typo in signal.c
373 - Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr.
374 - Cleanup how find_device() works.
375 - Add read output to Status in SD.
377 - Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris.
380 Changes to 1.38.2: 22 November 2005
382 - Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479.
383 - Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 (bug originator
384 says this does not fix *his* bug).
385 - Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481
386 - Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487
387 - Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488
388 - Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c
389 - Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource
390 fork filename. Bug #489
391 - Add Pool name to SD status output.
392 - Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492
394 Changes to 1.38.1: 15 November 2005
396 - Apply SunOS patch for ACLs submitted by David Duchscher.
397 - Make sure to set storage before trying to set drive.
398 - Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes
399 a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted
401 - Make sure when we do a mount to unblock the device even
402 if the drive could not be opened.
404 - Merge Scott's new spec files.
405 - Add doc on setting up Win32 environment variable supplied
406 by Kees van den Broek.
407 - Turn off API debug output unless debug set to avoid confusing
409 - Add Solaris ACL detection in configure.in as supplied by
412 - Implement 'autochanger drives' protocol so that Dir knows
413 how many drives an autochanger has.
414 - Do not request drive number in label, ... if only one drive.
415 - Turn off debug code.
416 - Fix update slots to clear slot number of every slot before
417 setting it. This fixes (I believe) bug #471
418 - Make unmount unload the autochanger slot.
419 - Modify open() on mount to be read-only and non-blocking,
420 otherwise the mount can block for a long time.
421 - Make a few error message numbers unique.
422 - Make a few error messages more correct.
423 - Apply patch from Thorsten to fix Win98 stat() command.
425 - Remove delete of CVS from all makefiles.
426 - Fix seg fault when clicking on Add button in wx-console
427 restore panel. Bug #470.
428 - Fix copyright date and URL typo -- bug #468.
429 - Change autostart install for FreeBSD to look for rc.conf
430 rather than rc.local as suggested fix for bug #466.
431 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
432 grant on status. Bug #465
433 - Apply patch supplied by Eric Bollinger to fix PostgreSQL
434 update script. Bug #464
435 - Fix off by one for last Slot of autochanger for label.
436 - Update release date.
437 - Tweak an authentication error message in dir.
438 - Fix autoloader so that mutex is set and released around
439 each run_program(). There was a missing set.
440 - Remove an unnecessary drive release in autochanger.
441 - Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog
443 - Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb
444 - Fix wrong variable in bpipe.c debug output reported by user.
445 - Fix improper placement of encode_and_send_attributes() in
446 FD backup.c causing first file of non-portable Win32 backup
447 to have wrong stream. Reported by Thorsten.
448 - Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in
449 autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457.
450 - Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested
451 by user. Fixes bug #456.
453 Released 1.38.0 (28Oct05): 31 October 2005