Release Notes for Bacula Community 7.4

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Release Version 7.4.7 15 Mar 2017

This is a minor bug fix release, which hopefully corrects a seg fault on OpenBSD due to the new ACL/XATTR code, and it also fixes most build problems on Solaris 10 as well as EPROTO on OpenBSD.

There is one minor new feature that allows you to specify the query item number on the bconsole query command line.

Permit specifying query item number on bconsole query command line

Fix Solaris 10 problems reported by Phil Stracchino

Fix EPROTO on OpenBSD

Release Version 7.4.6 10 Mar 2017

This is a bug fix release, which hopefully corrects a seg fault on OpenBSD due to the new ACL/XATTR code, and it also fixes the large number of tape mount messages that are repeated at 5 minute intervals due to a bug in the poll code. Various small fixes for FreeBSD.

Please note, the signature hash files (.sig) for the source code was previously SHA1. For this and future releases we have changed it to be SHA256.

Fix bug #2271 where poll interval causes tape mount message to repeat

Attempt to fix IPV6 not configured

Possible fix for acl seg fault on OpenBSD where no acl code defined

Change release digest from SHA1 to SHA256

Fix getnameinfo() for FreeBSD fixes bug #2083

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2083 2271

Release version 7.4.5 07 Feb 2017

This is a minor bug fix plus a significant total rewrite of the ACL and XATTR code by Radoslaw Korzeniewski.

Correct wrong word in message

Remove restriction on using the scratch pool that can cause restore failures

Remove debug code that breaks btape fill

Initialize freespace_mutex fixes bug 2207

baculum: Update AUTHORS file

baculum: Enable Japanese language on web interface

baculum: Implement Japanese language support

XACL - refactoring an ACL and XATTR codes.

Revert “Warn of Storage Daemon version incompatibility if label fails. Bug #2193”

Make another attempt to resolve bug #2176

Warn of Storage Daemon version incompatibility if label fails. Bug #2193

Apply patch to list more pool info from bug #2202

Fix status alignment output reported by Wanderlei Huttel

Release version 7.4.4 20 Sep 2016

This is a bug fix release.

Fix #2085 About director segfault in cram-md5 function

Attempt to fix bug #2237

Recompile configure.in

Fix systemd installation

If using readline reset terminal at bconsole exit

Fix compilation without SMARTALLOC

Fix #2060 about SQL false error message with “update volume fromallpools” command

Fix spurious MD5 update errors when nothing changed should fix bug #2237 and others

Fix small memory leak with the restart command

baculum: Update language files

Fix #335 Avoid backups going to the scratch pool

systemd: Give 3mins to the bacula-sd service to stop and close the dde

Minor modifications to Ubuntu packaging

Check if the ScratchPool points to the current Pool and print a warning message in such case

Fix #1968 print the ScratchPool name instead of just ‘Scratch’

Display PrefixLinks in “show job” output

Add explicit LL to big integers to appease older compilers

Enable the plugin directory for the FileDaemon by default

Allow multiple mailcommand+operatorcommand in Messages. Fixes bug #2222

Handle NULL pointers in smartdump() and asciidump()

Modify status to include Admin and Restore in Level field – clearer

Ensure that zero JobMedias are written for labelling

Fix error message about the stream 26 (PLUGIN_NAME) in bextract

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1968 2060 2085 2222 2237 335

Release version 7.4.3 17 Jul 2016

This is a bug fix release. Most importantly, it fixes the new GCC 6.0 aggressive compiler behavior that elides (deletes) code written by the Bacula developers. There is no benefit to the new GCC aggressive optimization and it breaks a lot of programs including Bacula. This problem showed up on ArchLinux and Fedora 24.

Add LICENSE and LICENSE-FOSS files to the documentation

Add shortcut to RunScript console commands. Submitted by Wanderlei Huttel. Fixes bug #2224

Fail when multiple mailcommand and other strings are specified in .conf. Fixes bug #2222

Add support for terabytes in sizes. Submitted by Wanderlei Huttel. Fixes bug #2223

Add error message for truncate command when actiononpurge not set. Fixes bug #2221

Fix optimization error with GCC 6.1

Fix compilation warnings with GCC 6.1

Explicitly create MySQL user in grant_mysql_privileges.in

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2221 2222 2223 2224

New feature:

There are two new Director directives that simplify doing console commands rather than using RunScripts. They are

ConsoleRunBeforeJob = “console-command” ConsoleRunAfterJob = “console-command”

Release version 7.4.2 06 Jul 2016

This is an important bug fix release to version 7.4.1 mainly fixes detection of MySQL 5.7 (as found in Ubuntu 16.04). Certain bug fixes contributed by Bacula Systems.

Fix #1926 about wrong duplicate job detection with Copy/Migration and Backup jobs

Recompile configure after db.m4 change

Fix batch insert for MySQL 5.7

Fix zero level debug output – now at 100

Fix #766 about Job logs displayed with unneeded linefeed

Fix #1902 about a segfault with the “cancel inactive” command

Fix bug where MySQL 5.7 is improperly linked on Ubuntu 16.04

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1902 1926 766

Release version 7.4.1 31 May 2016

This is a minor bug fix release to version 7.4.0. Most of the fixes have been kindly contributed by Bacula Systems SA.

Fix bug #1849 MySQL does not accept 0 for DATETIME default

Modify the alist object to be reused after a destroy()

baculum: Fix setting invalid timezone value for PHP

Fix compilation for AIX

Fix the restore termination string in the job report to take in account JobErrors and SDErrors

baculum: Show jobs for client

Fix bconsole “llist job=<xxxx>” output

Fix #146 about update volume command line usage

bat: Fix #1066 about bad update pool command

Fix #1653 about make_catalog_backup default user name

baculum: Show jobs stored on volume

Fix update Volume=x Slot=nn when Slot > MaxVols

Set exit code for create_postgresql_database.in

Fix bug #2197 – build failure with –disable-libtool

Fix bug #2204 – superfluous END-OF-DATA in update_mysql_tables.in

Convert a Migration job with errors into a Copy job

Remove exporting add_mtab_item – fixes bug #2198

Fix possible problem of show multiple resources

Comment out tools/smtp-orig.c as it is for reference only

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1066 146 1653 1849 2197 2198 2204

Release version 7.4.0 14 Jan 2016

For the most part the changes were contributed to the Bacula project by Bacula Systems SA.

This is a new release with a new version number. It has been very thoroughly tested, but as always, the new features may not always work as expected.

The Catalog database format has not changed since version the prior release (7.2.0).

Compatibility

As always, both the Community Director and Storage daemon(s) must be upgraded at the same time. Any File daemon running on the same machine as a Director or Storage daemon must be of the same version.

Older File Daemons should be compatible with the 7.4.0 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons.

New features and changes: Please see the New Features chapter of the manual for documentation on the new features. The new features are currently only in the New Features chapter and have not yet been integrated into the main chapters of the manual.

New Features and changes summary: - Support for KFREEBSD OS - Improved support for Clang - Configure SSL connection to MySQL - New chio-changer-freebase in examples/autochangers

New directives in bacula-dir.conf in Catalog{} resource

for the MySQL backend (not currently implemented for Postgresql or SQLite).

dbsslkey dbsslcert dbsslca dbsslcapath dbsslcipher

examples/autochangers/rc-chio-changer removed
examples/devices/DVD.conf removed
updated copyrights
Add “Expires in” to list and llist volumes
Implement a more efficient Volume selection algorithm between DIR and SD
Implement new list/llist command keywords:
order=asc|ascending order=desc|descending limit=nn jobstatus= Client= JobErrors
Implement new bconsole @tall command that outputs input and output to console and terminal. Note, this also outputs bconsole input commands.
Implement MaxVirtualFullInterval
Implement VirtualFullPool override
Pool overrides work better
Automatic selection of catalog from client where possible.
Implement VerifyData level type for Verify jobs.

More detailed changes:

Implement MaxVirtualFullInterval

Update AUTHORS

Ensure relabel has latest vol info may fix bug #1412

Change license as per agreement with FSFE

Apply Carsten’s patch that fixes bug #2192 builds on kfreebsd

baculum: Enable Portuguese language on web interface

baculum: Implement Portuguese language support

baculum: Assign Baculum copyright to Kern Sibbald

baculum: Fix sorting in restore by group most recent backups

baculum: Fix restore group most recent backups for MySQL

Fix FD DisableCommands

baculum: Fix to change user password

Add ExpiresIn field in list and llist media output

Fix #1548 about Solaris SIGBUS with accurate mode backup

Backport more Enterprise code to sql_list.c

Add info message of #jobs consolidated in Virtual Full

baculum: Unify user validation

Add HasBase+Comment to llist Jobs

Fix seg fault in btape fixes bug #2180

Fix slight error in autoprune – should fix bug #2151

baculum: Add first unit tests

Fix #1545 about fix in manual_prune.pl script with large number of volumes

Fix false status output. Fixes bug #2103

Integrate patch into latest version, which fixes bug #1882

Fix bug #2090 correct detection of GCC

Fix CLANG warning messages – fixes bug #2090

Add new chio-changer-freebase from bug #2115

Applied modified patch from bug#2117 to fix bpipe end of stream

Apply patch from bug #2165 to fix the update sqlite3 script

Fix update MD5 failure bug reported by Peter Keller

baculum: Add dashboard panel

Patch to add MySQL ssl access

Manually apply patch in bug #2156 to allow building on KFreeBSD

Fix bug #2153 with patch submitted by Ana Arruda

baculum: Switch to started job status just after job start

baculum: Add possibility to open configuration windows from URL

Fix restore when storage specified on command line

Fix restore of Windows streams to non-Windows machines

Implement level=Data to the Verify job

Fix #1524 about bextract trace file location

Fix truncate bug free_volume problem

baculum: Remember sort order for data grids

baculum: Improve size formatter precision

baculum: Fix jobs count in job list

baculum: Add jobbytes and jobfiles columns in job list

baculum: Get system timezone for PHP if possible

baculum: Fix restore when a lot of jobids given

baculum: Set default job attributes (level, client, fileset, pool, storage,

priority) in Run job panel

Fix truncate race bug #1382

baculum: Fix update pool action when no volumes in pool

baculum: Split configuration windows into two tabs: actions and console

baculum: Change default elements limit to 500 elements

baculum: Add drive parameter to bconsole release command execution

Fix #1470 Fix setdebug command when all components are selected

baculum: Fix expectation failed error during restore

Add new JOB_DBR field

#ifdef out bpluginfo since it does not compile

Fix #1449 about a FileDaemon segfault with the fstype option

Remove vestiges of rechdr_queue hopefully fixes bug #2180

Apply bconsole manpage patch from bug #2182

Apply ppc64el configure detection patch from bug #2183

Fix #1414 When the FD is down, status dir now prints “is waiting for Client

xx-fd”

Implement new options in list command

Add @tall command to log both input/output in a log file

Fix #1360 about bextract -t not documented in the man page

Update spec file for latest OSX versions

Fix compilation on MacOS

Improve Jmsg in response(), display SIGNAL number when appropriate

Avoid segfault in dump_block() when the block_len is invalid

Fix #1368 about xattr error not displayed correctly at restore time

Fix bug 2173 QT tray monitor can not be built due to missing files in configure

Move plugin_free() in free_jcr()

Fix bug #2083 – Fix sockaddr_to_ascii for FreeBSD

Fix fadvise bug found by Robert Heinzmann

Fix compilation without zlib and lzo

Fix compilation error with new fstype_cmp() function

Fix compilation problem with AFS

Fix compilation on Solaris/FreeBSD

Fix segfault in open_bpipe() when the program is empty

Modify find_next_volume_for_append() to not send the same volume twice

Avoid <NULL> string displayed in restore menu

Do not update state file after a bacula-xxx -t

Fix #804 about misleading message with the purge command

Fix automount feature after a label command

Reinsert tabs in systemd Makefile.in

baculum: Provide LICENSE-FOSS file content in Baculum deb packages (copyright

file)

Use Client Catalog resource in get_catalog_resource() if “client” is specified

in command line

Fix #1131 about Job::Next Pool resource precedence over the Pool::Next pool

directive

Fix #898 truncate volumes larger than 200 bytes

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1131 1360 1362 1368 1382 1412 1414 1449 1470 1524 1545 1548 1882 2083 2090 2103 2115 2117 2151 2153 2156 2165 2180 2182 2183 2192 804 898