Release Notes for Bacula Community 13.0

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Release 13.0.3 / 02 May 2023

13.0.3 is a minor bug fix release with several new features and a number of bug fixes.

Fix #10030 About small issue while canceling the restore command

Fix #9968 Enhance restricted Console support

Fix #10032 Allow restore menu 1 to users without sqlquery command ACL

Fix #10033 Add extra Client and FileSet ACL checks to the estimate command

Fix #9907 About Director crash with Runscript Console

Fix #9968 Adapt restore menu and add RBCLIENT/BCLIENT in some ACL SQL checking

Fix small memory leak with setbandwidth command

Adapt delete, prune, purge commands to work with restricted consoles

Check ClientACL in acl_access_jobid_ok()

Check Pool specific ACL in select_media_dbr()

Disable Bootstrap manual selection in restore for Restricted Console

Do not display specific SQL errors to restricted consoles

Include BackupClient in list jobs, list jobmedia, list joblog

Restrict the use of local files during the restore file selection process when using a Restricted Console

Take the first valid FileSet for the restore Job with restricted consoles

baculum: Add checking errors in output from vsphere plugin servers, hosts and datastores commands

baculum: Add new m365 plugin mailbox list endpoint

baculum: Add VMware vSphere datastore list endpoint

baculum: Add VMware vSphere host list endpoint

baculum: Add VMware vSphere restore host list endpoint

baculum: Add VMware vSphere server list endpoint

baculum: Add a new endpoint to list jobs together with objects

baculum: Add client filter to objects endpoint

baculum: Add client property to object and objects endpoint

baculum: Add client resnames endpoint

baculum: Add client, pool, fileset and fileset content properties to jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Add displaying bconsole command output if command is multiline

baculum: Add enabled flag filter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add endpoint to list m365 jobs by email

baculum: Add endtime property and filters to source list endpoint

baculum: Add estimated job values endpoint that uses job historical data for estimation

baculum: Add fileindex parameter to bvfs restore endpoint

baculum: Add fileset and filesetid filters to jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Add fileset content property to sources endpoint output

baculum: Add job errors property to objects endpoint

baculum: Add job errors property to sources endpoint

baculum: Add job status property to objects endpoint

baculum: Add job type to sources endpoint

baculum: Add joberrors filter to jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Add joberrors filter to objects endpoint

baculum: Add mediaid to volume overview endpoint

baculum: Add method to execute SQL queries

baculum: Add more detailed output to restore endpoint

baculum: Add objectid parameter to Bvfs restore endpoint

baculum: Add objecttype parameter to jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Add offset and limit parameters to bvfs versions endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to filesets endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to m365 plugin email list endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to sources endpoint

baculum: Add options to configure preserving table settings

baculum: Add order_by and order_direction parameters to sources endpoint

baculum: Add order_by and order_direction parameters to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add order_by and order_direction params to jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Add output parameter to run job endpoint

baculum: Add output parameter to run restore endpoint

baculum: Add overview parameter to job list endpoint

baculum: Add overview parameter to objects endpoint

baculum: Add pool filter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add priorjobname parameter to jobs endpoint

baculum: Add priorjobname property to jobs endpoint

baculum: Add restore_host parameter to vsphere plugin datastores API endpoint

baculum: Add server parameter to vsphere plugin hosts API endpoint

baculum: Add sorting by jobstatus to objects endpoint

baculum: Add starttime property to objects endpoint

baculum: Add storage filter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add support for cloud storage commands

baculum: Add support for plugin filter in client list endpoint

baculum: Add tenant indentifier list endpoint

baculum: Add to documentation missing type parameter to job resnames endpoint

baculum: Add to estimated job values endpoint average number of backed up objects

baculum: Add to jobs endpoint time filters in date/time format

baculum: Add to jobs objects endpoint time filters in date/time format

baculum: Add to objects endpoint capability to sort by client name

baculum: Add to objects endpoint time filters in date/time format

baculum: Add volerrors property to volumes overview endpoint

baculum: Add volstatsu property to volumes overview endpoint

baculum: Add volstatus filter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add voltype parameter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add voltype property support in bvfs output parser

baculum: Add volumename filter to volumes endpoint

baculum: Add volumes overview endpoint

baculum: Add when parameter to run job endpoint

baculum: Change a way of executing SQL queries

baculum: Change a way of preparing overview with counters in objects endpoint

baculum: Change overview behaviour in objects endpoint if used together with groupby parameter

baculum: Disable querying API for seeing which authentication methods are supported

baculum: Enhance validation in time period control

baculum: Extend object name validation pattern

baculum: Fix compatibility with PHP 5.4

baculum: Fix documentation about jobids parameter in bvfs restore endpoint

baculum: Fix documentation for date parameters

baculum: Fix example values in OpenAPI documentation

baculum: Fix listing restore job in job endpoints

baculum: Fix losing autochanger directive value in storage resource in director configuration

baculum: Fix m365 user list endpoint

baculum: Fix offset and limit parameters for case when storage in catalog is inconsistent with configuration

baculum: Fix problem with double jobids in jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Fix support for PHP 5

baculum: Improve identifier validator

baculum: Improve job statuses for job overview purpose

baculum: Improve jobs objects endpoint working

baculum: Improve precision in show command output parser

baculum: Make show command output parser more accurate

baculum: Remove overview, order_by, order_direction and object_limit parameters from jobs objects endpoint

baculum: Rework and improve sources endpoint

baculum: Update documentation

baculum: add offset parameter support in new job objects endpoint

rpms: Add rhel9 target to spec file

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 10030 10032 10033 9907 9968

Release 13.0.2 / 16 February 2023

13.0.2 is a minor bug fix release.

Fix #9535 avoid “Will not descend from / to /good_dir”

Fix #9568 About “cancel inactive” command Storage Daemon selection

Fix #9614 Re-create Jobs with bscan only if the bootstrap is matching

Fix #9686 Grant PROCESS privilege to bacula user to allow catalog backup

Fix #9876 Update information printed during file restore error

Fix #9882 About tapealert script issue on rhel8

Fix Cython detection on python >= 3.8

Fix bconsole command issue after a first error

Fix errors in update_bacula_tables

Fix org#2577 Remove -f option from MySQL update scripts to detect errors properly

Fix org#2628 About improving the update_bacula_tables script on up to date catalogs

Fix org#2665 About memory leak on FreeBSD with extended attributes

Fix org#2666 About fixing getaddrinfo check in ./configure

baculum: Add afterjobid parameter to job list endpoint

baculum: Add jobids parameter to objects endpoint

baculum: Add plugin column

baculum: Add age parameter to jobs and objects endpoints

baculum: Add capability to restore using plugin

baculum: Add dedupengine output type to status storage

baculum: Add documentation for component actions

baculum: Add documentation to new job sort parameters

baculum: Add documentation to new jobids parameter in job list endpoint

baculum: Add event list and single event record endpoints

baculum: Add group_limit, order_by and order_direction parameters to objects endpoint

baculum: Add groupby parameter to object list endpoint

baculum: Add job sum statistics endpoint

baculum: Add jobids parameter to Bvfs update endpoint

baculum: Add missing objectid parameter to API documentation

baculum: Add multiple jobids filter to jobs endpoint

baculum: Add new fileindex property to objects

baculum: Add new filters to object category sum endpoint

baculum: Add new job, fileset and media properties support

baculum: Add object category stats endpoint

baculum: Add object category status endpoint

baculum: Add object size statistics endpoint

baculum: Add object versions endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to event and pool list endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to jobs, objects and volumes endpoints

baculum: Add offset parameter to messages endpoint

baculum: Add offset parameter to storage and client list endpoint

baculum: Add option to enable/disable audit log

baculum: Add patch for offset parameter support in SQL queries

baculum: Add query command support, object endpoint and m365 user list endpoint

baculum: Add restore plugin option fields endpoint

baculum: Add restore plugin options endpoint

baculum: Add search Bacula items endpoint

baculum: Add single object record endpoint

baculum: Add sources endpoint

baculum: Add time range parameters to jobs endpoint

baculum: Add time range parameters to objects endpoint

baculum: Add to jobs endpoint parameters to sort property and sort order

baculum: Fix OFFSET parameter in PHP framework

baculum: Fix sources endpoint double results

baculum: Fix time range filter for job and object endpoints

baculum: Fix using multiple job statuses in list jobs jobstatus filter

baculum: Fix using operators for SQL queries

cloud: Fix #8351 Catalog part number correction notification goes debug

cloud: Fix #9508 transfer remove dcr use for JobId

cloud: Fix #9606 Rearange POOLMEM usage in cb functions

k8s: Add support for Python3.10

win32: Fix org#2667 enable sockaddress_storage for windows

win32: Switch to openssl 1.1.1t

Bugs fixed/closed since last release:: 8351 9508 9535 9568 9606 9614 9686 9876 9882

Release 13.0.1 / 05 August 2022

13.0.1 is a minor bug fix release.

Fix org#2594 About compilation warning on VolRead/WriteTime

Fix org#2644 Add support for binary files to bacula md5sum

Fix org#2655 About incorrect definition of MAX_FOPTS

Fix org#2656 About incorrect error message on TLS CA Certificate

Fix org#2657 About startup problem for bacula-sd

baculum: Adapt code to use PSR-4 autoloader

baculum: Fix #2653 PHP warning about wrong array_key_exists() parameter in session record

baculum: Improve logging and add audit log

osx: Fix #9309 about extended attribute backup error on macOS

Rework MacOS package

rpms: Add kubernetes spec file

rpms: Add spec file for k8s tools

rpms: Fix cloud package

rpms: more work on docker and docker tools

win32: update openssl to 1.1.1q

Bugs fixed/closed since last release:: 2653 9309

Release 13.0.0 04 July 2022

13.0.0 is a major release.

New Features:

Job ‘Storage Group’ support

Kubernetes plugin

New Accurate option to save only file’s ACL and metadata

Windows CSV (Cluster Shared Volumes) support

More logging for daemon<->daemon connections in Job log output

Tag support on catalog objects

Support for SHA256 and SHA512 signatures in FileSet

External LDAP Console authentication

Misc Features:

Windows installer ‘Silent Mode’ options

Add PriorJob to bconsole ‘llist job’ output

Check for IP SANs when verifying TLS certs

Clarify SD vbackup Device error message

Remove deprecated sbrk in MacOS and Windows

Add bconsole .jlist command to get JSON output from regular list commands

Ensure that the Director will reject catalog updates from the FD

Add variable for PreviousJobId in mail messages

Respect the ‘nodump’ flag in more OSes than just BSD

Add debug/trace/tags information to .status header

Handle lin_tape end of device with the new ‘Use Lintape=yes’ Device directive

Add MaximumJobErrorCount FileDaemon directive

bsmtp: Add the possibility to add emails separated with a comma as recipient list

SDPacketCheck FileDaemon used to control the network flow

Add bconsole .bvfs_lsfiles allfiles command

Main Fixes:

Fix org#2188 About the presence of FileSet and Pool directives in the Job

Fix Director crash for Client Initiated Backup

Fix Director crash for Migration Job

Fix incorrect output for the .status client command

Skip XATTR larger than MaximumNetworkBuffer

Fix deadlock when starting the Director with an improperly configured catalog

Fix Director crash caused by BAT

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

Move the delete volume event just before the actual deletion

Fix mail variables not working after a conf reload

Fix OpenBSD chio-changer script

Fix SQL query generated with ACLs

Fix heartbeat segfault when the Job is terminated very quickly

Fix About wrong backup Client displayed to the user when the original Client doesn’t exist

Fix org#2605 About incorrect message in restore command

cdp: open the inotify stream using the CLOEXEC (close on exec) flag

docker: Check the presence of the docker tools during loadPlugins()

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

Fix Copy Job with SelectionType=PoolUncopiedJobs selecting Jobs from wrong Pool

Fix about checking for Storage being used for Job restart/resume

Fix about incorrect variable substitution with the query command

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

Fix #9116: copy job missuses the client->FdStorageAddress directive

Fix org#2658 About segfault with bsdjson with incorrect parameters

Skip storage daemon detection if the information is not available in the BSR

alist: Fix for memory overflow access

Fix org#2659 Install dbcheck and bsmtp in 755

Fix org#2662 About SQLite migration script issue

snapshot: Adapt for BTRFS 5.17

snapshot: Fix snapshot delete/prune command

snapshot: Fix #9143 About snapshot not properly stored in the catalog

snapshot: Add support for new LVM 2.03.15

win32: Update to OpenSSL 1.1.1q

rpms: Fix org#2633 about log directory not created on Centos7

GUI:

baculum: Fix clearing OAuth2 properties after testing API connection on security page

baculum: Fix directing to default page after log in for users with non-admin roles

baculum: Fix #2667 keep original fileset options order

baculum: Add to install wizard pre-defined b*json tool paths for FreeBSD and older Debian/Ubuntu

baculum: Fix #2661 required parameter PHP error on PHP 8.0

baculum: Fix error calling method_exists() with non-objects on PHP 8

baculum: Fix clearing OAuth2 properties after testing API connection on security page

baculum: Fix directing to default page after log in for users with non-admin roles

baculum: Add to install wizard pre-defined b*json tool paths for FreeBSD and older Debian/Ubuntu

baculum: Fix #2661 required parameter PHP error on PHP 8.0

baculum: Fix error calling method_exists() with non-objects on PHP 8