From f2af8e8df673d2ebfcb31af6c5e621fda88cd525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:21:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update news for release 5.0.3 --- docs/home-page/en/news.txt | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 89 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt index c59a06fa..e9829a4c 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt @@ -1,3 +1,92 @@ +Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. +It includes new code and some new features. +There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in + the 5.0.1 release section. + Important!!! + +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 5.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes and New Features: +- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously + it printed a warning message and continued. +- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts +- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) + must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously + for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. +- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. +- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if + it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes + typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. + + +Bug fixes +1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 + +- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 +- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit +- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 +- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 +- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line +- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. +- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump +- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 +- Add archlinux to os.m4 +- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall +- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine +- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault +- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons +- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync +- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows +- Up maximum block size to 20M +- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 +- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 +- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin +- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg +- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition +- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both + catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir +- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open() + by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() +- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated +- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls +- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate +- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory +- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match +- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault +- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c +- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard + install dir +- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs +- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra +- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups +- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command +- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag +- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test +- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms +- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger +- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side +- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir +- Fix segfault when loading Plugins +- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore +- Added new bacula-libs package. +- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value +- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant + +See ChangeLog for more details. + +;;;; Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET Welcome to our new bacula.org server -- 2.39.2