Hello,
This is a combined Release announcement and a Status report.
============ Release Announcement ==============
Release 9.2.2
This is a minor bug fix release (6,143 lines of diff). The main fixes to
this version are: eliminate most messages that are repeatedly printed,
eliminate malformed message output, error when compiling without TLS, ...
Note: if you are running MySQL and have not recently executed
src/cats/update_bacula_tables, please do so. It will not change your
database version but it will fix some potential MySQL problems (for more
detals see the release notes for version 9.2.1).
06Nov18
- Fix bug #2421 by Adam about quoting Windows paths in
CreateChildProcess()
- Update po files
- Implement new message numbers in stored/block.c
- Fix incorrectly indicating: malformed message
- Fix bugs #2335 and #2349 Volume messages printed many times
- Add new test for bug printing many multiple Max Volume jobs= info
- Fix complier warning due to unused subroutine variable
- Fix bug #2334 seg fault when releasing globals
- Fix escaping special characters in bvfs restore for sqlite catalog
- Fix tls_bsock_shutdown() compilation when no TLS available.
- Fix bsock compilation warning.
- Fix bsock compilation problem in *BSD.
- Add new manual test
- rpm: Fix mysql dependency for bacula-postgresql
- baculum: Fix basic auth user setting in API install wizard
- baculum: Improve error handling in web part
- baculum: Fix formatted size and time values on the volume details page
- baculum: Fix undefined index error on web config wizard page
- baculum: Fix #2418 creating or updating new resource
- baculum: Fix size unit formatters in restore browser reported by
Wanderlei
Huttel
- baculum: Do not store any main oauth2 client nor main http basic
user in api
config
- baculum: Update Japanese translation files
- baculum: Fix availability web config wizard when there is problem
with access
to api
- baculum: Add new size directive control
- baculum: Fix logging output if it is not possible to decode to json
- baculum: Fix saving logs when an error occurs
- baculum: API panel and wizard improvements
- baculum: Add name field to api client parameters
Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
2334 2335 2418 2421
============ Status Report ==============
The last Status Report was in June of this year, so I would like to
bring you up to date on a few items.
I would like to discuss the following subjects:
1. Bacula Release Status
2. Bacula Binaries
3. Windows Binaries
4. Next Bacula Version
5. New Website
===
1. Bacula Release Status
The latest Bacula version 9.2.2 was released today to Source Forge and
to www.bacula.org. This is a small update to the previous version.
2. Bacula Binaries
Thanks to the build support from Bacula Systems, we now have binaries
for a number of popular distributions (the 9.2.2 binaries will be coming
shortly). If you need additional distributions, please notify us on the
bacula-users email list. However, please realize that it takes time to
make new distribution releases, and if it is not a platform that is
supported by Bacula Systems, it takes even longer for us to install and
configure those platforms for the binary build process.
The release format is with standard packaging using debs rpms, … that
are specific to each system. However, unlike most Linux distributions,
we install the Community Binaries into the directory /opt/bacula as
recommended in the Bacula manual and as used by the Bacula Enterprise
Edition. This Bacula file release standard is not uncommon and vastly
simplifies installation, support, backup and recovery of Bacula itself.
Basically, most of the release will be installed into /opt/bacula except
for the few system files that must be placed in certain locations such
as the start/stop scripts and the man text.
One change is that we ask you to register to get access to the binaries.
This is very similar to signing up for the email lists. We have always
been interested in who is using Bacula, and provided you supply correct
information, this registration will help. You will be asked a few simple
questions and also be given an opportunity to receive the Bacula
Enterprise Newsletter. If you decline the newsletter, you will not be
bothered. The advantage of getting the newsletter is you will be
informed what is coming in the next Enterprise releases, which means
that most of those features will follow into a subsequent community release.
To register and get access to Bacula pre-built binaries please go to
www.bacula.org and on the main menu bar select Downloads -> Bacula
Binary Package Download, then fill out the registration. Note,
ultimately you will receive a special download link that will give you
access to the binaries. Please keep that link for future access to the
binary repository for updates and new releases.
3. Windows Binaries
Since version 9.0.0, we have re-integrated the Windows File daemon
source code, and built Windows Binaries packages. They can be found in
www.bacula.org -> Downloads -> Binary Download Center. Version 9.2.2 are
currently available.
4. Next Bacula Version
We have begun working on the next version of Bacula. This release will
most likely be called version 9.4.0. Aside from backports of minor new
features and bug fixes from Bacula Enterprise, it also includes Cloud
drivers that work with Amazon S3. It will also work with any truly S3
vendor. Please note: Oracle and Google has so called S3 service but
they are not compatible. Windows, of course, has Azure, which is very
different. Thus, Oracle, Google, and Windows Azure are not compatible
with the up coming release 9.4.0. Hopefully this release will be
available before the end of the year or at the latest, early next year.
5. New Website
As many of you have noticed, we now have a new more modern Website. Many
thanks to Sasha, Andrei, Davide, and Rob for making this happen. Due to
the complexity of current websites that user WordPress as we do, it is a
tremendous amount of work to make this kind of change. I also would
like to thank all of you who gave your comments on preliminary versions
of this new website. We took into account every comment and many of
them were extremely helpful.
Thanks for using Bacula — be happy.
Kern
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