- Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.0
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 396 Total lines = 116,418 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-
-Major Changes:
-- Tray monitor program (really cool)
-- Bacula Rescue CDROM (easy to make and essential for emergencies)
-- Bacula CD Image Manager
-- General bug fixes/stabilization
-- French translation of manual by Ludovic Strappazon well
- underway.
-- UTF-8 is supported in conio.
-- Improved conf scanning code allowing FileSet components to
- be put on a single line (previously everything had to be on
- a different line).
-- Win32 files restored to an alternate directory will have the
- colon following the drive letter turned into a / e.g. c:
- becomes c/. Previously the c: was stripped. This applies only
- to files written to an alternate directory (i.e. using a where=).
-- Certain open files (Word for example) can now be saved on
- Win32 systems.
-- Default for Wild-cards on Win32 systems is to fold case this
- should correct most of the problems users are having with
- exclusion on Win32.
-- Lots of improvements in the Rescue scripts -- better
- network detection, better mounting code, ...
-- The attributes spool file can now exceed 2GB.
-- Significant speed improvements when running PostgreSQL.
-- Significantly faster restore command with very large
- FileSets while building the in memory directory tree.
-- Patches directory in the source will have all patches
- that have not been applied and released (new releases are
- only generated when really critical bugs are found).
-- Bacula forces the tape drive into variable block mode
- on most systems (providing Bacula is running in variable
- block mode).
-- dbcheck updated to remove many more orphaned records.
-- Support for IPv6 (untested).
-- Modifications to the license to termination clause for
- more protection from SCO type predators. No change for
- normal users.
-- SIGHUP to Director causes it to reload conf file.
-
-- Many improvements in the documentation.
-
-New Directives:
-- Added "Rerun Failed levels = yes/no" in the Job resource
- of the Director. It will upgrade the current job to a
- higher level (Full or Differential) if a previous job
- of that level failed.
-- Added "Ignore FileSet Changes = yes/no" in the FileSet
- directive of the Director. It prevents the Director from
- immediately upgrading the job to a Full save if you modify
- the contents of the FileSet. Not recommended.
-- Added "Block positioning = yes/no" in Device resource in SD.
- If set to no, Bacula should (as yet untested) be able to
- recover data from tapes where the drive was set to fixed
- blocksize but Bacula is in variable block size.
-- Added "Multiple connections = yes/no" in Catalog record for
- allowing multiple simultaneous connections to the database.
- This is a major performance improvement for PostgreSQL and
- SQLite, but it is untested, so please test before putting
- it into production.
-- Alert Command in SD permits checking for tape drive
- alerts at the end of every job (or doing anything you want).
- An example of the command is in the default bacula-sd.conf
- file as well as in the Storage Configuration chapter of
- the manual.
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+Major Changes to version 1.36.3:
+- Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below)
+- Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB.
+- Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl
+ programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format
+ and has an index!
+- Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below).
+
+New Directives in 1.36.3:
+- None, but see 1.36.2 additions below.
New Commands:
-- umount -- same as unmount.
-- delete job now permits multiple jobids and ranges, e.g.:
- delete job jobid=1,3,5,11-16
-- reload -- reloads bacula-dir.conf in Director.
+- None since 1.36.1
+
+Items to note for 1.36.3!!!
+- Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has
+ supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of
+ converting your FileSets. It can be found in
+ examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl
+- Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
+ changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
+ "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
+ where the first is the database name, and the second is the
+ user name.
+
+Patches applied:
+
+04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
+ This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
+ client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
+ edit "since".
+
+04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
+ This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
+ simultaneous jobs from different pools.
+
+09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
+ This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
+ when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
+ doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
+
+15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
+ This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
+ on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
+
+16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
+ This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
+ flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
+ a user complained about it.
+
+17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
+ This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
+ which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
+ is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
+ than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
+ introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
+ Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
+ Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
+
+18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
+ This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
+ the job attempts to call the SD.
+
+18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
+ This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
+ The storage pointers were being released when they should not
+ have been.
+
+24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch
+ Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details).
+
+28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch
+ This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor.
-Items to note!!!
+================================================================
+
+Items to note for 1.36.2!!!
+- Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
+ changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
+ "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
+ where the first is the database name, and the second is the
+ user name.
+
+Patches applied:
+
+03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch
+ This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if
+ more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same
+ Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes).
+
+03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch
+ This patch should fix "update slots" with two different
+ magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping
+ the InChanger.
+
+18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch
+ This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job
+ report. Previously, it reported the total size for the
+ device. This patch makes it report the size for the job.
+
+21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch
+ This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon
+ specifications. Previously they were not always honored.
+ This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates
+ an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs.
+
+21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch
+ This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there
+ is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command.
+
+24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch
+ This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs
+ at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes.
+ Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be
+ converted to the new style as soon as possible.
+
+30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch
+ This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results
+ in the incorrect name being used for the check.
+ This fixes possible security problems with unwanted
+ access by restricted consoles.
+
+15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch
+ This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after
+ doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not
+ agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is
+ marked in error.
+
+===
+Items to note for version 1.36.1:
+- The output from Job reports has been modified to include the
+ seconds on the start/end times, the Storage device used, and to
+ indent the output differently.
+- If you created a PostgreSQL database under version 1.36.0, there
+ are two things you might want to do. 1. manually remove some
+ of the File table indexes to improve backup performance. See the
+ make_postgresql_tables script. 2. run fix_postgresql_tables (in
+ src/cats and updatedb) to correct a table. This is necessary only
+ if you are creating disk Volumes greater than 2GB.
- As of 1.35.5 you MUST do a database update.
cd scripts-dir (or src/cats)
of the new FileSet features such as regular expressions.
- Regular expressions are not supported in the Win32 FD.
-Other Items:
-- Much better error messages from system errors particularly
- on Win32 and in running scripts.
-- Many improvements in the SD.
-- Full support for 64 bit machines.
-- btape improved test and fill commands.
-- See the ChangeLog for additional details.
+Major Changes to version 1.36.1:
+- There is a new Win32 pebuilder rescue disk thanks to Scott. This
+ is worth the effort to checkout.
+- A number of indexes have been removed from the PostgreSQL
+ database to improve performance during backups. You may need to
+ add these indexes if you do Verifies. See the scripts.
+- We now have a Gentoo ebuild -- thanks Scott.
+- There are a number of new ./configure options for the
+ bimagemgr. Please see the documentation or ./configure --help
+- The RedHat autostart scripts disable using /lib/tls. If you
+ don't want this you will need to turn it off.
+- Corrected a problem with the default SD and FD conf files that
+ incorrectly set Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1. This prevented
+ running a job and obtaining the status at the same time.
+- All daemon messages are now prefixed with a short date/time,
+ and queued messages (generated in the comm routines) have the
+ time the message was generated rather than the time the message
+ was sent (usually much later).
+- Fixed a bug with the autochanger code not respecting the InChanger
+ flag.
+
+Other Items:
+- It is now possible to build the Rescue CDROM using a pre-installed
+ static Bacula FD.
+- Corrected a bug in the traceback code when Bacula was executed without
+ a path. Tracebacks should now work in more cases.
+- Corrected a typo in the traceback script.
+- Fixed the mtx autochanger script so that it correctly waits on
+ Linux systems (if you manually enable the code).
+- Added grant all on cdimages for PostgreSQL users of bimagemgr.
+- The actual Job start time is now correctly recorded in the catalog.
+- You can now specify a JobId (or multiple ones separated by commas) on
+ the restore command line.
+- A -d50 will now turn on lots of debug code if you are having
+ authentication errors.
+- Found a workaround to a /lib/tls pthreads bug (a library seg fault).
+- Added an ALERT message class for Alert messages.
+- Fixed a seg fault in the restore tree routine when attempting
+ to select certain files in the root directory.
+- Allow other jobs to request new Volumes while operator intervention
+ is needed -- previously all stalled.
+- Enhancements to btape test (don't loop if certain tape errors occur).
+- Improvements to the Win32 install.
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