-Kern;;;26 July 2008;;10:30
+Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
+Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
+We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
+orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
+what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
+from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
+be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
+available for normal operations.
+
+In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
+which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
+area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
+Creation of Bacula Systems SA
+Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
+
+I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
+provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
+pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
+open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
+range of Bacula users.
+
+As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
+public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
+written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
+many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
+contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
+It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
+Bacula useful.
+
+Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
+ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
+project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
+free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
+protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
+source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
+version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
+home for Bacula project development.
+
+So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
+from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
+and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
+transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
+Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
+
+Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
+The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
+Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
+those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
+Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
+founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
+have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
+dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
+with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
+initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
+
+I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
+community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
+will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
+customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
+Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
+be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
+provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
+training, documentation and certified binaries.
+
+Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
+and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
+through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
+consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
+additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
+more effectively.
+
+Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
+value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
+Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
+service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
+
+The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
+in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
+and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
+Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
+new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
+www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
+for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
+and certified binaries.
+
+All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
+www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
+our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
+company, Bacula Systems.
+
+Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Kern Sibbald
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
+Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
+This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
+Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
+area.
+
+Release 2.4.3
+ This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
+ with other 2.4.x versions.
+
+Bugs Fixed:
+ 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
+
+Change Summary:
+- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
+ a non created job faster.
+- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
+ respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
+- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
+- This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
+ crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
+ in bug #1162.
+- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
+ replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
+- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
+ in bug #1149.
+- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
+ this never caused a bug.
+- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
+- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
+ using default variables.
+ Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
+- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
+ job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
+- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
+- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
+ be switched.
+- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
+ a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
+ fixes bug #1143.
+- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
+- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
+ given. This fixes bug #1140.
+- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
+ This closes bug #1129.
+
+Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
+until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
+end of the year.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
at least once before asking for operator intervention.
- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
version 2.5.x and above.
+;;;
-
-Kern;;;7 July 2008;;10:30
+Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
+;;;
-
-
-Kern;;;4 Jun 2008;;10:30
+Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
in job report.
;;;;
-Kern;;;27 Jan 2008;;10:30
+Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
;;;
-Kern;;;9 Jan 2008;;20:30
+Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
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