Release Notes for Bacula 9.6.2
This is a minor new release with several new features and a number of bug
fixes. The catalog datbase format remains unchanged from the 9.4.4 release
Note: Release-9.6.0 had a build error when using readline, and Release-9.6.1
had an inappropriate file size for the readline history file, so both releases
have been withdrawn.
Major Baculum New Features:
- SELinux support
- New graph types
- Graphical client status
- Graphical running job status
- Capability to start, stop and restart components
- Support for commands that can take a long time (label, estimate...)
- List job files tab on the job history page
- Bandwidth limit setting for client and for job
- New statistics configuration page
- Improvements to responsive interface
- Option to show size unit values as decimal or binary bytes
- Support for new directives
- New Web controls (password, speed, multiple textbox)
- New API functions
- Job history list on job page
Bacula New features:
- Docker plugin. Documentation for this plugin is not yet ready,
but will be forthcoming within a few weeks.
- Statistics Collector for Dir, FD, and SD (interface to Graphite)
- New Statistics resource
Documentation for this feature is in the New Features section of
the main manual
- Support for MacOS suspend in File daemon
- SD SyncOnClose directive in Device resource
26Feb20
- Apply fix for history size from Martin Simmons
- Fix missing part of patch 8135b9d21d -- readline truncate fix
- baculum: Fix using bconsole with sudo on Fedora if SELinux is enabled
- baculum: Add copy, CSV and column visibility buttons to tables
- baculum: Add buttons and colvis DataTables plugins
- baculum: Add additional values to job and volume API endpoints
- docker: Replace realloc_pm() for check_size().
- Update pluglib.
- Fix Docker Plugin for accurate backup.
- Docker: add baculatar docker image.
- Win32: update Windows build to including needed collector files
- Get Branch-9.4 ReleaseNotes
- Update po POTFILES.in and version
- Get ChangeLog from Branch-9.4
- baculum: Update Polish translations for API and Web
- baculum: Update Portuguese translations for API and Web
- Fix cats-test.c compile
- baculum: Upgrade W3.CSS from version 4.10 to 4.13
- Add Docker Plugin for FileDaemon.
- Add pluglib fd plugin support utilities.
- Redesigning PM management add missing files.
- baculum: Fix delete job button visibility
- baculum: Add to BVFS lsdirs, lsfiles and versions endpoints new output=raw/json
parameter
- baculum: Update spec and deb files
- baculum: Do not try to switch to new user in API and Web install wizards
- baculum: Improve Polish translations
- baculum: Fix maximum length for basic auth password fields
- baculum: Start storing basic auth passwords in APR MD5 format
- baculum: Fix button to reopen change user password setting
- baculum: Fix sorting clients in fileset browser window
- baculum: Improve showing create new resource messages
- baculum: Improve texts in restore wizard
- baculum: Use new icons in restore and fileset browsers
- baculum: Fix PHP error on storage view page with autochanger comming from
host different than main (reported by Jose Alberto)
- baculum: Fix internal error on restore page if MySQL catalog database is
used
- baculum: Avoid doing redundant API calls by job monitor
- baculum: Add support to restore from copy jobs
- baculum: Add API changes to support restore from copy jobs
- baculum: Add script for checking if Baculum files are installed correctly
- baculum: Refactor authentication, authorization and exceptions
- Fix#5708 about "cancel all" command issue
- baculum: Bandwidth limit window improvements
- baculum: Add auto-refreshing job tables
- baculum: Add progress bar to restore jobs on status client
- baculum: Add job name parameter to monitor
- baculum: Add table filters
- baculum: Add restore progress bar
- baculum: In job status avoid calling client if job isn't running
- Fix compilation on Solaris
- baculum: Extend max length for client secret field to maximum allowed secret
size
- baculum: Improvements to messages resource
- baculum: Implement swipe event and use it to hide main menu on mobile devices
- baculum: Group directives into sections in config directive list
- baculum: Fix problem with shaking spinning icons on Firefox
- baculum: Add confirm window to delete job action
- baculum: Add job history list on job page
- baculum: Fix loading first job setting in run job window on window open
- baculum: Add in API wizard example sudo configuration for bconsole and JSON
tools
- baculum: Make resource config page buttons always available
- baculum: Fix language setting in config wizard during first run
- baculum: Fix refreshing job status only when actions tab is open
- baculum: Miscellaneous improvements to schedule configuration
- baculum: Extend combobox control to support associative arrays as data
source
- Fix for #0005391: show negative values.
- Fix#5546 about incorrect level for job resumed
- baculum: Move refresh job button and log order button to job log tab
- baculum: Set job values on job selection in run job window
- baculum: Turn application mode to normal
- baculum: Add jsmin-php as framework dependency
- baculum: Fix small issues with old not using svg icons
- Fix error on .ls when plugin name without ':'
- baculum: Add list job files to job history view page
- baculum: Add list job files API endpoint
- tray-monitor: fix potential memory corruption
- Fix#5461#5513#4717 About WroteVol non-zero message
- Update Docker Plugin build procedure.
- docker: Add Docker Plugin DKID unittest.
- Add Docker Plugin regression tests - more files.
- Add Docker Plugin regression tests.
- build: Add Makefile update to fd plugin builds.
- baculum: Fix PHP error on running job status page and client status page
- baculum: Fix support for UTF-8 currency symbols in paths - reported by
Frédéric F.
- Fix running job count in status output
- baculum: Fix directing to default API page when API settings has not been
created yet
- baculum: Set default refresh interval for status client
- baculum: Improve selecting storage value in run job window
- baculum: Fix saving to config empty runscript subresources
- baculum: Add graphical running job status on running job page
- baculum: Add progress bars to backup jobs displaying on status client page
- baculum: Fix displaying SqlQuery value in selection type job directive
- baculum: Add to client status modal window to set bandwidth limit for job
- baculum: Add API endpoint to set job bandwidth limit
- baculum: Add to client status modal window to set bandwidth limit for client
- baculum: Add API endpoint to set client bandwidth limit
- baculum: Add UnitType and AllowRemove parameters to speed type directive
control
- baculum: Don not use data description and data dependencies modules initialization
- baculum: Improve checking dependencies
- baculum: Fix running job twice when job is running by run job window
- baculum: Changes to proper working list type controls on page load
- baculum: Change Font Awesome SVG icons into web fonts icons
- Add new psk-enable-test
- baculum: Fix removing fileset options subresources
- baculum: Make loading configuration controls easier
- baculum: Enable adding multiple file set file browser controls on the same
page
- baculum: Fix using nested directives in repeater control
- baculum: Misc changes to keep backward compatibility in API endpoints
- baculum: Fix scrolling to new runscript subresource on add new runscript
action
- baculum: Change way of working directive renderer
- baculum: Split API panel, oauth, api and page parts into separate services
- baculum: Add component start/stop/restart actions to Web
- baculum: Update API SELinux module for new component action policies
- baculum: Implement component start/stop/restart actions in API
- baculum: Show error message on status client request if client is not available
- baculum: Implement graphical status client
- baculum: Update Font Awesome icons to version 5.9.0
- baculum: Add output=raw/json parameter to show client API endpoint
- baculum: Add status client API endpoint
- baculum: Remove deprecated and not used directives
- baculum: On restore wizard job list add link to job history for specific
jobid
- baculum: Fix showing job size value on jobs on volume page
- baculum: Minor fixes and improvements in fileset file browser
- baculum: Allow dollar character in bconsole commands (used for paths)
- baculum: Enable restoring data from locations included in paths defined in
FileSet
- baculum: Make 'Run job' and 'Perform restore' buttons clickable at whole
theirs area
- baculum: Miscellaneous improvements to use restore file browsers on different
screen sizes and mobile devices
- baculum: Fix removing items from selected file browser in restore wizard
- baculum: Unify config module menus look
- baculum: Create multiple combobox control and use it in console ACL directives
- baculum: Add timeout to first refresh job log to have log output earlier
- baculum: Do not show unknown job level for admin job type
- baculum: Add new directives and new resources support
- baculum: Fix setting selected items in list directive controls
- baculum: Add version number to API and Web - idea proposed by Wanderlei
Huttel
- baculum: Disable emulation prepared statements for MySQL to solve problem
getting every value as string
- baculum: Apply framework patch that fixes SQL error when native MySQL prepare
statements are used
- baculum: Add new graph types
- baculum: Add statistics resource support
- baculum: Add option to show size unit values as decimal or binary bytes
- Add a Bacula statistics collection routine.
- Fix incorrect ASSERTD().
- baculum: Fix showing unit for size and time period directive types
- baculum: Add missing speed type control to support speed type directives -
reported by Wanderlei Huttel
- Fix comment
- baculum: Fix#2477 escaping backslashes in config in text directive types
- Fix bug 2476 -- copy/migration jobs fail when waiting for a new Volume
- Add copy-jobspan-label-wait-test to do_all
- Add two new regression tests submitted by Martin Simmons for bug 2476
- Add bsmtp Message-Id/MIME-Version/Content-Type headers.
- baculum: Fix#2474 error 404 if document root path uses link with ending
slash - fix suggested by vondi
- Add Michael Narigon as author for Mac heap implementation
- Remove bacula32.def and bacula64.def.
- Redesigning PM management and add support for macOS.
- baculum: Add password field control and use it for password directives
- baculum: Add SELinux modules for Web and API
- baculum: Remove php database extensions dependency from web requirements
- Add tests/restart-jobmedia-test to do_all
- baculum: Update API documentation to job estimate endpoint
- baculum: Use in run job window estimate command in background to avoid HTTP
timeout
- baculum: Move running job estimation to background in API part
- baculum: Prevent selecting in restore file browser directories placed in
locations that are outside paths defined in fileset - reported by Wanderlei
Huttel
- baculum: Fix removing path items selected to restore in restore wizard
- baculum: Fix clearing restore path field after selecting backup in restore
wizard
- baculum: Update API documentation
- baculum: Add API endpoints to update slots with and without barcodes and use
them in on web interface side
- baculum: Use on web interface side new API endpoints to label volume with and
without barcodes
- baculum: Add API endpoints to label volume with and without barcodes
- baculum: Update run job API endpoint in API documentation
- baculum: Request #2469 add start and cancel buttons on job history list
page
- baculum: Add filesetid parameter to run job API endpoint
- baculum: Set column visibility priorities for status schedule tables in
responsive mode
- baculum: Add status schedule endpoint to API documentation
- baculum: Fix showing graphs if exists finished job with empty start time
value
- baculum: Fix TPhpFatalErrorException exception on job view page with PHP
version lower than 5.5
- baculum: Extend log parser to support restore client, job name and volume
names
- Rework fsync patch for win32
- Fix Windows SD compilation
- Add Cython detection
- Add SyncOnClose Storage Device directive
- Add db_get_jobmedia_record() function
- Check JobMedia validity after an incomplete job
Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
0005391 2469 2474 2477 5461 5546 5708
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Release 9.4.4
This is a bug fix release to 9.4.3. It includes some fixes that fix
bad data records in Copy/Migration jobs or problems doing restores
of Copy/Migration jobs.
28May19
- rpm: Fix mysql dependency for bacula-postgresql
- Fix bug 2476 -- copy/migration jobs fail when waiting for a new Volume
- Add copy-jobspan-label-wait-test to do_all
- Add two new regression tests submitted by Martin Simmons for bug 2476
- Remove bacula32.def and bacula64.def.
- Add Michael Narigon as author for Mac heap implementation
- Add tests/restart-jobmedia-test to do_all
- Allow to hangup/blowup inside a file for tests
slash - fix suggested by vondi
- Add db_get_jobmedia_record() function
- Check JobMedia validity after an incomplete job
- baculum: Fix#2477 escaping backslashes in config in text directive types
- baculum: Fix#2474 error 404 if document root path uses link with ending
- baculum: Remove php database extensions dependency from web requirements
- baculum: Fix removing path items selected to restore in restore wizard
- baculum: Fix clearing restore path field after selecting backup in restore
wizard
- baculum: Fix TPhpFatalErrorException exception on job view page with PHP
version lower than 5.5
Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
2474 2476 2477
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Release 9.4.3
This is a bug fix release for version 9.4.2. It includes a number of bug
fixes and patches.
Baculum: there have been significant additions and changes to Baculum.
If you want a web gui please check it out.
S3 driver: If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the
community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:
https://www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20181010.tar.gz
As usual the binaries that correspond to this release will follow in
a week or two.
If there are no additional major bugs, this will be the last of the 9.4.x
releases. The next release will have a number of new features, and will
require a major database upgrade (don't worry it will be easy -- just
run update_bacula_tables)
02May19
- Fix Window bpipe-fd strncpy programming error
- Change mysql my_bool to bool as it was removed from mysql
- Improve assert message
- examples: move backup-to-cdwriter.txt to move-backup-to-usb.txt
- fix memory leak in DIR for copy-job
- Skip empty lines when generating the FileSet from a command
- Fix creation of bad JobMedia records in Incomplete Job
- Add messages for Incomplete Jobs
- Fix misplaced cancel check reported by Alain
- Change round() to bround() to avoid library definition conflict
- rpms: Fix bacula-cloud spec file
- rpms: Add bacula-cloud spec file
- rpms: Add missing isworm script
- Use more appropriate computation for VolIndex when creating restore .bsr
- Fix Daemon message "Message repeated X times" count
- Fix Carsten's names
- Make diff.pl adapt to different install locations
- Fix#4598 Display JobIds used in the restore job log
- Add smartalloc function to print the owner of a buffer
- Avoid to use the same variable name for two different things in the cmd_parser
class
- Fix#4433 about 'UPDATE File SET MD5='...' WHERE FileId=0' error when using
SpoolAttributes=no
- Fix MaxVolumeBytes accounting after a mount request
- Fix verify volume jobs with sparse files
- Fix small memory leak with Console runscripts
- Add 'prune jobs/files all' command
- fix#4383 Sometime SD hangs when TLS and DEDUP are used together
- baculum: Add status schedule page
- baculum: Add status schedule API endpoint
- baculum: Fix schedule directives setting
- baculum: Update Portuguese translation file
- baculum: Fix#2466 add plugin directive support in fileset resource
- baculum: Fix updating whole Bacula config at once
- baculum: Fix showing validation error if new config is incorrect
- baculum: Fix setting multiple config resources at once
- baculum: Fix renaming resources
- baculum: Add links to resources in job log output
- baculum: Update example web server config files and spec file
- baculum: Fix list type directives on configure hosts page
- baculum: Fix showing messages resource configuration
- baculum: Add parent node property to directive list types
- baculum: Add capability to define multiple drivetype and fstype directives in
fileset resource
- baculum: Fix showing runscript subresource on job pages
- baculum: Update new texts in Portuguese translation file
- baculum: Add missing texts to translation files reported by Wanderlei Huttel
- baculum: Update Portuguese translations
- baculum: Fix showing schedule resource configuration on job view and job
history view pages
- baculum: Fix returning one line output from bconsole
- baculum: Fix restore wizard error when no fileset available for normal user
with limited access
- baculum: Add capability to use many ACL Console directives in one config
resource
- baculum: Add client ls command to openapi file
- baculum: Add text box list control to support directives that can be defined
multiple times in one resource
- baculum: Add cancel button to last step new job wizard
- baculum: Change PoolType field from text box into combo box
- baculum: Fix adding new schedule run directives
- baculum: Add support to multiple schedule run directives
- baculum: Fix in API part saving job runscript config if RunsWhen=Always
- baculum: Fix adding paths to empty include block
- baculum: Fix saving job runscript config if RunsWhen=Always
- baculum: New create backup job wizard
- baculum: Add API endpoint to list files/dirs on client
Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
2466 4383 4433 4598
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Release 9.4.2
This is a bug fix release for version 9.4.1. It includes a number of bug
fixes and patches. Thanks to the community for your participation.
9 bug reports were closed. This version should fix virtually all
the problems found on FreeBSD.
If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the
community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:
https://www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20181010.tar.gz
04Feb19
- Update Windows .def files
- Change create_postgresql_database.in script to be more flexible
- Implement eliminate verify records in dbcheck bug #2434
- Enhance verify-voltocat-test to detect comparing deleted files
- Fix bug #2452 VerifyToCatalog reports deleted files as being new
- Use correct quoting for a character -- fixes previous patch
- Recompile configure.in
- Apply Carsten's multiarch patch fixes bug #2437
- Apply Carsten's patch for adding CPPFLAGS to tools/gigaslam.c compile
- Allow . to terminate sql queries prompts
- baculum: Update Baculum API OpenAPI documentation
- Fix rwlock_test unittest bug #2449 Only call thr_setconcurrency if it's
available. Fix order of linking and installation.
- FixFix spelling errors found by lintian by Carston in bug #2436
- Apply chmods from Leo in bug #2445
- Add license files LICENSE and LICENSE-FOSS to the regression directory
- Display daemon pid in .apiV2 status output
- Attempt to ensure that ctest job output gets uploaded
- Apply varargs patch from Martin for bug 2443
- Apply recv() hide patch from Martin
- Fix lz4.c register compilation from bug #2443
- dbcheck: Improve error message when trying to prune Path records with BVFS is
used.
- Update cdash for version 9.4
- Fix bug #2448 bregex and bwild do not accept -l command line option
- Partial update copyright year
- Fix struct transfer_manager to be class transfer_manager
- Print Device xxx requested by DIR disabled only if verbose is enabled in
SD
- Add migrate-job-no-resource-test to all-disk-tests
- Remove unused berrno call + return
- Remove mention of Beta release from ReleaseNotes
- Fix#3225 about Migration issue when the Job resource is no longer defined
- baculum: Fix restore paths with apostrophe
- baculum: Fix data level
- Change endblock edit to unsigned -- suggested by Martin Simmons
- Update DEPKGS_VERSION
- baculum: Adapt Apache configs to version 2.4
Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
2434 2436 2437 2443 2445 2448 2449 2452 3225
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