Hello,
I have uploaded version 1.36.3-pre1 to the bacula-beta section. I would
appreciate it if as many people as possible can test it. This code is very
stable and suitable for production, and unless there is some surprise, we'll
be releasing it this weekend or Monday. I have not uploaded any Windows
binaries, but I may do so later today.
This version is compatible with any 1.36.x daemons. The only thing of
importance is that the old style FileSets have been disabled.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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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:
- 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 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)
./update_bacula_tables
- All daemons should be compatible with 1.34 with the exception
of the new FileSet features such as regular expressions.
- Regular expressions are not supported in the Win32 FD.
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.
