Release Notes for Bacula Community 11.0

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Release 11.0.6 10 March 2022

11.0.6 is an important bug fix and security fix release. We advise all 11.0.x users to upgrade to this version.

Adjust sample-query.sql file for new catalog schema

Fix #2654 About compilation issue on Alpine Linux

Fix #2656 About segfault in XATTR code for FreeBSD

Fix #7776 About FD error not correctly reported in the Job log

Fix #7998 About Director crashing for client initated backup

Fix #8126 About strange output for the .status client command

Fix MySQL default connection in the grant_mysql_privileges script

Fix db_get_accurate_jobids() with concurrent queries on the same Jobs

Fix issue with MySQL 8 in src/cats/grant_mysql_privileges

Fix detection of PSK

Fix org#2622 About incorrect behavior of the MaxDiffInterval directive

Fix org#2623 About .ls/estimate command not printing files correctly

Fix org#2627 About Director crashing for Copy Jobs and resource rename

win32: Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1m

Got regression testing working correctly on FreeBSD

Update depkgs version to use latest libs3

baculum: Add API endpoints for basic user management

baculum: Add JSON output parameter to show client(s), show job(s), show pool(s) API endpoints

baculum: Add capability to assign dedicated bconsole config file to API basic users

baculum: Add capability to close modal windows on clicking gray shadow

baculum: Add capability to provide translated directive documentation file

baculum: Add capability to use pre-defined paths in API config wizard - idea proposed by Heitor Faria

baculum: Add console page to configure consoles

baculum: Add copy resource function to enable duplicating resources

baculum: Add director show API endpoint

baculum: Add documentation for directives

baculum: Add interface to manage basic users API from Web component side

baculum: Add jump to previous/next error navigation in messages window

baculum: Add new columns to job list page - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Add option to enable/disable messages log window - idea proposed by Bill Arlofski

baculum: Add password generator added to password fields

baculum: Add time range filters to job history page - idea proposed by Heitor Faria

baculum: Add to API deleting volume from the catalog endpoint

baculum: Add to config API endpoint parameter to apply jobdefs in results

baculum: Add to directive controls option to hide reset button and remove button

baculum: Add warning to running job status if job needs media

baculum: Apply PRADO framework patches to support PHP 8

baculum: Backup job wizard improvements

baculum: Change buttons on dashboard page - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Do not require using some job resource values to ease using jobdefs - idea proposed by Heitor Faria

baculum: Enlarge boxes with resource count in status director - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Fix #2642 add tool to re-assigning volumes from one pool to another

baculum: Fix #2646 apply new user permissions immediately instead of after logging out and logging in

baculum: Fix #2647 PHP warning about headers already sent on storage view page

baculum: Fix #2653 create new resource by copying configuration from other resource

baculum: Fix auto-scrolling in windows with configuration

baculum: Fix component autochanger schemas in OpenAPI documentation

baculum: Fix displaying directive sections in resouce configuration

baculum: Fix displaying documentation for jobdefs directives

baculum: Fix displaying issue in restore browser - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Fix error about expected port number when writing component main resource

baculum: Fix legend in job status pie chart on job view page

baculum: Fix loading dashboard page if job status is created but not yet running

baculum: Fix missing texts in translation files - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Fix opening job details in job table on main dashboard page - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Fix problem with listing directories in restore wizard - reported by Tomasz Swiderski

baculum: Fix remove storage resource if autochanger directive is set

baculum: Fix required fields in jobdefs forms

baculum: Fix running job number on some pages

baculum: Fix table width on schedule list page

baculum: Fix undefined index error if user did not use Bacula configuration function

baculum: Improve checking director in status director API endpoint

baculum: Improve sun icon for displaying job status weather - idea proposed by Heitor Faria

baculum: Improve wizards view and responsivity

baculum: Loading pages optimization

baculum: Make job status pie chart clickable and direct to job history page with filtered results - idea proposed by Bill Arlofski

baculum: Make job status pie chart smaller - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Make table texts translatable - reported by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Misc visual improvements

baculum: Move all external dependencies to vendor directory

baculum: Move resource monitor and error message box to separate modules

baculum: New advanced schedule settings

baculum: New copy job wizard

baculum: New delete volumes bulk action on volume list page

baculum: New director page with graphical/text status and with configure director resources

baculum: New migrate job wizard

baculum: Reduce free space between interface elements - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Reduce size of icons in run job window and on dashboard page

baculum: Remove old configure page

baculum: Remove redundant statistics pages

baculum: Reorganize dasboard page - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov

baculum: Set responsive priority for job list table

baculum: Unify buttons view

baculum: Unset default API host setting if default API host is no longer assigned to user

baculum: Update API documentation

baculum: Update Polish translations

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Update Russian translations

baculum: Visual improvements in interface

rpms: Disable tcp_wrapper for rhel8 in bacula.spec.in

rpms: Do not build with tcp_wrapper on Fedora 31

rpms: Fix #2599 - bacula-postgresql conflicts with bacula-mysql

rpms: Fix #2615 - Missing bacula-sd-cloud-s3-driver-<version>.so

rpms: Fix libs3 installation path

rpms: Fix mysql devel package dependency for rhel/centos 7

rpms: Remove tcp_wrappers for cloud-storage rpm

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2599 2615 2622 2623 2627 2642 2646 2647 2653 2654 2656 7776 7998 8126

Release 11.0.5 03 June 2021

11.0.5 is a minor bug fix release.

Fix compilation

Fix org#2427 About incorrect handling of empty files with Accurate=yes on Windows

Update MySQL update procedure for 5.6

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2427

Release 11.0.4 28 May 2021

11.0.4 is a minor bug fix release.

baculum: Update script version

Fix org#2618 Disable fix on bvfs_get_jobids() temporarily

Improve MySQL upgrade procedure

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2618

Release 11.0.3 21 May 2021

11.0.3 is a minor bug fix release.

Check if char **jobid parameter is NULL before modifying it in bvfs_parse_arg_version()

Enhance the update_mysql_tables script

Fix compilation of check_bacula.c reported by Dan

Fix org#2442 About the check of the Control Device during startup

Fix org#2500 .bvfs_get_jobids jobid=X must return X in the list

Fix org#2604 About column alignment of ‘Terminated Jobs’ section

Fix org#2605 About incorrect messages in restore command

Fix stored/Makefile.in to install cloud driver object with cloud targets

Fix various default permissions

baculum: Add autochanger management section and improve few other texts

baculum: Add component action (start/stop/restart) buttons to client and

storage pages

baculum: Add example working directory path in API install wizard

baculum: Add new device interface definition to Baculum OpenAPI documentation

baculum: Fix #2592 logout button on Safari web browser

baculum: Fix double device error code number

baculum: Fix opening update slots window reported by Hector Barrera

baculum: Fix sub-tabs on client and on storage pages

baculum: Implement autochanger management

baculum: Implement support for assigning multiple API hosts to one user

baculum: Restore wizard improvements

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Update Russian translations

baculum: Update documentation chapter and screenshots

baculum: Use catalog access in changer listall endpoint only if it is configured on API host

docs: Add information about the git branch used with Bacula

docs: Fix #7657 Enhance the FSType description

docs: Fix #7659 About EnhancedWild fileset directive documentation

docs: Fix org#2578 About missing “restore directory=xxx” keyword documentation

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2442 2500 2578 2592 2604 2605 7657 7659

Release 11.0.2 26 March 2021

11.0.2 is a minor bug fix release.

Add functions to unittests library

Add support for store_alist_str() in plugin configuration items

Enhance bdelete_and_free() macro

Update baculabackupreport script

Fix #7286 DIR segfault when doing a “dir” command in a restore

Fix #7321 About issue when stopping jobs waiting for resources

Fix #7396 GRANT command error in granting privileges script for MySQL

Fix #7449 About incorrect JSON output with ‘TLS Allowed CN’ directive

Fix #7451 About deleted files incorrectly kept in Virtual Full

Fix S3 compilation

Fix Verify job issue with offset stream and compressed blocks

Fix bug #2498 - Wrong mode for /etc/logrotate.d/bacula

Fix check_bacula.c to ignore daemon events

Fix possible memory corruption in the label process

Fix reload issue when a Job doesn’t have a Pool defined

Possible fix for SD high memory usage problem

Remove suspicious debug line on setdebug()

baculum: Add Craig Holyoak to AUTHORS

baculum: Fix #2597 LDAP login with LDAPS option

baculum: Fix cancel button in new job wizard

baculum: Fix displaying warning messages in messages window

baculum: Fix undefined property error in run job API endpoint if level value is not provided

baculum: Implement API version 2

baculum: Improve updating asset files after upgrade

baculum: Unify jobs/{jobid}/files endpoint output for detailed and normal modes

baculum: Update Polish translations

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Update Russian translations

baculum: Use new APIv2 status client request on job history view page

rpms: Fix bacula.spec for Fedora 31

rpms: Fix bacula.spec for rhel8 / centos 8

rpms: Fix missing query.sql

rpms: Update bacula.spec for rhel8

win32: Fill the version information as CFLAGS

win32: Fix #7373 binaries are tagged with correct resource

win32: Fix error message when labeling volume on Windows SD

win32: Update openssl version to 1.1.1k

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2498 2597 7286 7321 7373 7396 7449 7451

Release 11.0.1 04 February 2021

11.0.1 is a minor bug fix release.

Add PGSQL detection for macOS and MacPorts.

BEE Backport bacula/src/tools/dbcheck.c

Fix #7079 About a segfault in a copyjob when the fileset is no longer defined

Fix #7168 About incorrect start time displayed for canceled jobs not yet

running

Fix #7207 About ‘dbcheck -n’ not working properly

Fix #7214 Adapt mtx-changer.conf for GNU cpio mt version

Fix #7247 About incorrect variable substitution with the query command

Fix MySQL update procedure with incorrect handling of the FileIndex type

Fix compilation warnings with Solaris Studio

Fix copy/migration job selection

Fix org#2579 About incorrect JSON generated from empty Messages resource

Fix org#2587 Improve btraceback output

Fix org#2588 About incorrect Object/ObjectId type in update_postgresql_tables

Fix update_sqlite3_tables to upgrade from 9.6 to 11.0

Initialize StartTime in db_create_job_record()

Remove deprecated sbrk in macOS and Windows.

Use PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro to search for pkg-config. It is cross-compile

safe.

alist: Fix for memory overflow access.

baculum: Add capability to create filedaemon console and schedule on new

resource page

baculum: Add console messages log API endpoint

baculum: Add console messages log envelope

baculum: Add job status weather on job list page

baculum: Add new icons for job status weather purpose

baculum: Add to Bvfs lsdirs and lsfiles API endpoints pathid parameter

baculum: Browser paths in restore browser using pathid

baculum: Fix #2560 in restore wizard display names encoded in non-UTF encoding

baculum: Fix finding jobs by filename in restore wizard if filename contains

whitespace characters

baculum: Fix problem with setting hourly schedule - reported by Elias Pereira

baculum: Remove excanvas.js dependency

baculum: Update debian files to latest version

baculum: Update spec files

win32: Backport signing procedures to 11.0

win32: Fix #7094 bypass random pwd generation when pwd is provided

win32: Fix conditional #define’s

win32: Fix #7256 Update Windows version detection with latest versions

(Windows 10).

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2560 2579 2587 2588 7079 7094 7168 7207 7214 7247 7256

Release 11.0.0 12 December 2020

11.0.0 is a major release.

New Features:

New catalog format

Automatic TLS PSK encrypted communication

Support for Client behind NAT

Continious Data Protection (CDP) Plugin

Global Director Autoprune flag

Events/Audit features

New Baculum features

Support for GPFS

Misc:

New Prune Command Option

Dynamic Client Address Directive

Ability to disable Volume Retention

Ask to mount/create volume when the disk space is low

Simplification of the Windows FileSet with File=/

Use of QT5 for Bat on Windows

Support for Windows files with non-UTF16 names

Windows Snapshot management has been improved

Support for the system.cifs_acl extended attribute backup with Linux CIFS

Built-in Client Scheduler

Reload command improvements (Keep IP address, Maximum Concurrent value, …)

Support for GLOB pattern in Console ACL directives

Faster CRC32 algorithm

Please see the New Features chapter of the manual for documentation on the new features.