-kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET
-
- Bacula Developer's Conference
- 27-28 September 2010
- Yverdon-les-Bains
- Switzerland
-
-Are you interested in:
-
-- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
-- Learning how we maintain the source code.
-- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
-- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
-- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
-- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
-- Hearing from Bacula users.
-
-If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
-Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
-and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
-Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
-Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
-
-This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
-users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are
-or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
-sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
-
-
-Sunday 26 Sept.
- Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
- Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and
- optional.
-
-
-Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
- Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
- formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
-
- Tentative program:
- - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
- - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
- - Bacula in Brazil
- - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
- - Bacula development process
- - Bacula Roadmap
- - Bweb
-
-Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
- Birds of a feather meetings:
- Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning,
- organizing, ...
- - Using git
- - How patches are integrated
- - Regression testing
- - CDash regression dashboard
- - Release cycle
- - Roadmap discussion and input
- - How Bacula plugins work
- ...
-
-Your input needed:
-
-We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
-the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
-formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
-like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
+
+Please note there was a seamingly innocent patch made to
+version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
+on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
+from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.4:
+
+25Jan12
+ - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
+ - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
+ - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
+ - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
+ - Fix MediaView::getSelection
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
;;;;
+
+Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
+directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
+each time the Director starts.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Most important changes since 5.2.3:
+- Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
+ files.
+- Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
+- Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
+- Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
+ depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
+- Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
+- Compiler warning cleanups
+- xattr fixes
+- Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
+
+Changes since 5.2.3:
+
+18Jan12
+ - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
+ - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
+ - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
+ - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
+ variable
+ - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
+ - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
+ - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
+ - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
+ - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
+ test code
+ - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
+ - Fix bug #1815
+ - Fix systemd pid files.
+ - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
+ - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
+ - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
+ - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
+ - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
+ - Fix bug #1807
+ - Add configure for new redhat spec files
+ - Backport Enterprise spec files
+ - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
+ - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
+ - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
+ - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
+ - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
+ - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
+ - Add new features in plugin
+ - Add helper for ini files
+ - Implement run accurate=yes/no
+ - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
+ - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
+ - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
+ - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
+ - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
+ - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
+ - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.2:
+
+ - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
+ - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
+ - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
+ - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
+ - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
+ - Fix #3419, update stats problem
+ - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
+ - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
+ - Fix segfault in accurate code
+ - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
+
+Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
+1801 3322 3419
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
+additions and performance improvements.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
+important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
+the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
+SQL shared libraries.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Changes since 5.2.1:
+-----------------
+ - Implement -t option for Bat
+ - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
+ - Get new lib/plugins.h
+ - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
+ - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
+ - Add Systemd configure options
+ - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
+ - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
+ - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
+ - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
+ - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
+ - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
+ - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
+ - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
+ - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
+ - Fix bug #1774
+ - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
+ - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
+ - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
+ - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
+ - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
+ - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
+ - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
+ - bvfs: add clear_cache function
+ - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
+
+Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
+-----------------------
+1774 1778 3308 3325
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
+We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
+
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+General:
+--------
+
+This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
+It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
+lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
+number of important new features:
+
+Version 5.2.0
+-------------
+Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
+a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
+is 5.2.1.
+
+Compatibility:
+--------------
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+
+ Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+Main New Features:
+------------------
+- LZO Compression
+- New Tray Monitor
+- Purge Migration Job
+- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
+- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
+- Ability to Verify any specified Job
+- Additions to RunScript variables
+- Additions to the Plugin API
+- ACL enhancements
+- XATTR enhancements
+- Class Based Database Backend Drivers
+- Hash List Enhancements
+
+Some of the above are described below; all the above are
+described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
+manual.
+
+Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
+---------------------
+1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
+1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
+1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
+1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
+1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
+1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
+
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+ The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
+ restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
+ but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
+ prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
+
+Building Bat:
+-------------
+To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
+version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
+your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
+
+Packaging the SQL backend:
+--------------------------
+The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
+in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
+by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
+be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
+at the same time.
+
+- configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
+ --with-sqlite3
+ --with-mysql
+ --with-postgresql
+
+Order of testing for database is
+- postgresql
+- mysql
+- sqlite3
+
+Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
+A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
+
+At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
+backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
+the default backend type.
+
+If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
+gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
+copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
+
+cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
+
+And update the default backend in the following files:
+
+create_bacula_database
+drop_bacula_database
+drop_bacula_tables
+grant_bacula_privileges
+make_bacula_tables
+make_catalog_backup
+update_bacula_tables
+
+New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
+-----------------------------------------------
+This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
+14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
+detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
+recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
+source (i.e. manually):
+1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
+2. Save a copy of your existing database.
+3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
+ Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
+ at the bottom of this file.
+4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
+(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+
+================================================================
+
+Changes:
+
+Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
+- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
+- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
+- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
+ memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
+- limit command in some list commands
+- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
+- Faster crc32 algorithm
+
+Security Enhancements:
+- Additional security against injection of illegal characters
+- Fix possible fnmatch problem
+
+Features Enhancements:
+- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
+ AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
+- Tray monitor for Windows
+- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
+ backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
+ of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
+ libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
+ to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
+- Indent lsmark during restore
+- Disable batch insert config item
+- Director selection option in bconsole
+- restorejob command in bconsole
+- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
+- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
+ work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
+- Improved hash table for hard links
+- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
+ and %h (Client Address)
+
+Other Enhancements:
+- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
+ junction points.
+- New database format
+- Many new plugin API features
+- Improved memory handling for restores
+- Significant stability enhancements to bat
+- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
+- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
+
+
+===========================================================================
+;;;;
+
Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
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