Release Notes for Bacula Community 9.2

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Release 9.2.2 06 Nov 2018

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 details see the release notes for version 9.2.1).

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

Release 9.2.1 12 Aug 2018

This is a bug fix release. It also contains some refactoring. That said, there are 10,909 lines of diff between release 9.2.0 and this release. One major improvement is that this release should eliminate the persistent problem we have seen with MySQL unhappy with zero DATETIME fields. If you have problems with that, please simply execute the script update_bacula_tables found in the <bacula>/src/cats library. It will modify the table default values for DATETIME fields to be friendly to the whims of MySQL and MariaDB.

baculum: Fix saving directives in messages resource

Refactoring of BSOCK and introducing BSOCKCORE.

baculum: Update API documentation

baculum: Add status endpoint to available scopes endpoints

Make print_ls_output identify delete files more clearly

Backport stored/vbackup.c

baculum: Add status director and status storage endpoints

baculum: Add type and level filters to jobs endpoint

baculum: Add support for .api 2 command in bconsole module

Implement a keepalive on bpipe sockets fixes bug #2347

Backport bpipe enhancements

Permit catalog to contain negative FileIndexes

Fix bug #2319 wrong port value stored in bsock giving incorrect error messages

baculum: Add to jobs endpoint filtering by client and clientid

Fix bug #2410 bdirjson output incorrect for day greater than 24

Attempt to avoid MySQL complaints about not allowing zero or empty in DATETIME

Add M_SECURITY when connection is bad + fix bug where invalid probes sent to Dir

baculum: Fix schedule single day value setting

Fix bug #2286 copied jobs always have level=Incremental

baculum: Fix add slot parameter to label command

baculum: Fix restoring backup from deleted clients

baculum: Fix click action on remove config resource button

baculum: Fix framework validation for active list type controls

baculum: Implement ideas from Wanderlei Huttel

Fix bug 2395 problem with man dir

baculum: Fix saving subresources in config

Start work on HAVE_CLIENT_ONLY install

Switch to using /lib/systemd/system to install service files

Install Bacula systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Fix group most recent backups option in restore wizard for mysql

Fix bug #2404 uninstall systemd service

Fix warning during compilations of mainwin.cpp

baculum: Implement second part ideas and fixes proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

Update catalog update scripts in updatedb directory

Fix bug #2340. Display of db_driver

Add warning messages for bad or old self-signed certificates

baculum: Fix #2403 error while writing diraddress directive in Bacula config

baculum: Implement ideas and fixes proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Fix pool does not exist error on pool details page

baculum: Fix create directive base method

rpm: Fix MySQL dependency on bacula-postgresql package

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2410 2389 2286 2319 2340 2347 2357 2403 2404 2405 2395 2392

Release 9.2.0 20 Jul 2018

This is one of the biggest Bacula release ever made. It has almost 540,000 lines of diff output between Release 9.0.8 and this release.

This is a major new release with a new version number. It has been very thoroughly tested, but as always, please backup any previous version and test this version prior to putting it into production.

For the most part the changes were contributed to the Bacula project by Bacula Systems SA and myself, but there were a number of other contributors that I thank.

Database Update

There are no changes required to the catalog database.

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 9.2.0 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons.

Separate dequeuing msgs and dequeuing daemon msgs

Replace uint with uint32_t

Reset default status schedule limit to 30

Comment out use of uint that breaks Windows build

Update win32 .def files

Fix concurrent acquire/release of device

Correct copyright

Fix compiler warning generated by prior commit 1aad2088d21a3

Backport Enterprise src/findlib

Backport Enterprise src/filed

Backport Enterprise src/lib

Add debug code for bug #2356

Fix bug #2385 – compiler bug IMO

fix #3945: Add “ocfs2” to list of filesystems known by “FsType” directive

Backport parts of src/dird to community

Use bstrcmp in place of strcmp

Recompile configure

Update config.guess and config.sub

Fix #3615 about bconsole Socket errors reported in the bacula log file

Fix permissions of mtx-changer.conf

Use /dev/sg0 rather than /dev/sg1 so vtape devices work

Make out of freespace non-fatal for removable devices – i.e. behaves like tape

Pull latest tls*.pem from BEE

Fix #3854 missing tls library initialization in bdirjson, bfdjson, bsdjson and bbconsjson

Fix bug #2212 where restore jobid=nn file=xxx restores the files twice

Apply patch from Wandlei Huttel to add Run Time and suffix to Restored bytes

Fix bug #2343 where truncate of explicit Volume name truncates non-purged volumes

Fix some file execute permissions. Fixes bug #2389

Fix license problems in Bug #2382

Apply patch from Leo to fix bug 2192

Fix bad placement of jcr->pool reference as pointed out by Martin Simmons

rpm: Add OpenSuse Leap 42.3

rpm: Update bacula.spec for Fedora 27

Fix #3824 about incorrect setdebug command description

Fix Solaris 10 compilation error on BXATTR when no linkat(2) found.

win32: Fix backup issue with path > 250 char

Fix #3672 about bdirjson issue with the Autochanger directive

Enable build of Windows 64 bit tray monitor

Fix build of Windows tray-monitor

Some changes to configure.in

Update some old copyrights

Update some old copyrights

Fix showing PkiCipher and PkiDigest values in bfdjson output

Fix buffer overrun at BXATTR_Solaris::os_get_xattr_names.

Bring Branch-9.1 up to date with Branch-9.0

Fix #3745 update the client SQL record after a reload

Fix ‘grep -m’ when ‘-m’ option is not available.

Update the build for ACL/XATTR support.

Add some debugging information to bacl_solaris.

Fix backup ACL/XATTR when fatal error and not only error.

Fix Solaris XATTR support on Solaris 11.

Fix compile error on !HAVE_EXTENDED_ACL

Add some debugging messages.

Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD.

Add command to change the pool of a job and the associated volumes

Fix #3593 VirtualFull will select jobs to consolidate using Job name in addition to Client/FileSet

Do not increment the device num_writers if the call to dir_update_volume_info() fails

Add prune option to select volumes from a/all pool(s)

rpm: Add Fedora26-64 platform

Add the RestoreClient directive for Restore job.

Implementaion of .ls command for Plugins.

Use correct SQL table encoding for Postgresql 10.x

Fix Where/Replace parameter displayed in the Restore job summary

use pthread_kill() instead of pthread_cancel() to terminate SD_msg_chan

Recompile configure.in

Recompile configure.in

Correction of my_name_is() function using realpath()

Add a detection of realpath() function to configure.

Fix tray-monitor compilation

Use breaddir() in the tray monitor

file_dev.c: replace readdir_r() wit new breaddir()

new breaddir() function to replace readdir_r() + core update

Fix #3098 Add debug tag ‘record’ for traces about records in the SD

Fix #1826 Add Job Where and Replace variables to the Restore job summary

Remove tests about “NULL Volume name. This shouldn’t happen!!!* options to api restore

Port missing RestoreObject Plugin Config code from BEE.

Enhance “status schedule” function to allow multiple job= and client= filters

Add next_name() function to scan string lists

Fix #1170. Enhance “status schedule” command. Display ordered output, add Client and FileSet filters.

bvfs: Add clients= option to .bvfs_get_jobids to handle clusters

Add delete client bconsole command

Fix #2910 about a problem in the “status network” command when the client is not reachable

Fix #1108 Enhance setdebug help command and console completion

baculum: Fix SQL grouping error in restore wizard reported by Rasmus Linden

baculum: Fix cancel button in web config wizard

baculum: Web interface password is no longer stored in settings.conf

baculum: Fix path validator for UTF-8 characters

baculum: Add capability to set maximum numer of jobs visible in tables

baculum: Add prune and purge actions to volume view page

baculum: Fix compatibility with old api for prune and purge actions

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Fix catching API exceptions

baculum: Clean up theme Baculum-v1

baculum: Fix initializing new resource page

baculum: Add button to set job log order

baculum: Add manual loading CSS files with versioning

baculum: Move API panel CSS files to separate directory

baculum: Move Web CSS files to separate directory

baculum: Fix not showing ‘gui on’ command in bconsole output

baculum: Loading table data performance improvements

baculum: Fix sending path load request by enter key

baculum: Add patch to fix gettext class file in framework

baculum: Add htaccess file to framework directory

baculum: Update rpm and deb templates with apache and lighttpd config files

baculum: Update example api endpoints

baculum: Adapt Web and API to new framework version

baculum: Updated PRADO framework to version 4.0.1

baculum: Highlight main menu items for subpages

baculum: API v1 documentation as open API file

baculum: Update Web requests form for the new API v1

baculum: New improved version API v1

baculum: Fix link to job history page

baculum: Fix previous step button in restore wizard

baculum: Enable debug for first config wizard run

baculum: Fix directing to wizard if application config doesn’t exist

baculum: Fix opening configuration tabs bug reported by Heitor Faria

baculum: Set curl connection timeout

baculum: Show error message after connection to api test

baculum: Update LICENSE file

baculum: Solve old browser cache problem for javascript after upgrade

baculum: New redesigned web interface

baculum: Changes in api for the redesigned web interface

baculum: Fix saving boolean values in schedule Run directive

baculum: Add link to go back from job configuration window

baculum: Add new volumes required api endpoint

baculum: Add listbox control and use it for base and device directives

baculum: Fix showing verify job fields in job run configuration window

baculum: Revert back volume pool name in volume list window

baculum: Fix error message about disabled bconsole

baculum: API endpoints code refactor

baculum: Add state, number, boolean and id validators

baculum: Return bconsole disabled error if bconsole support isn’t enabled

baculum: Remove unused api endpoints

baculum: Fix oauth2 client working in the web part

baculum: Fix auth setting radio buttons alignement

baculum: Enlarge interface height to 100%

baculum: Add more information to cURL error

baculum: Stop using hidden fields to store item identifiers

baculum: Fix redundant loading users portlet

baculum: Add required config fields asterisk mark

baculum: New reworked restore wizard

baculum: Wizards view improvements

baculum: Add restore hardlinks support in api

baculum: Add strip_prefix, add_prefix, add_suffix and regex_where restore

baculum: Fix link to job history page

baculum: Fix previous step button in restore wizard

baculum: Enable debug for first config wizard run

baculum: Fix directing to wizard if application config doesn’t exist

baculum: Fix opening configuration tabs bug reported by Heitor Faria

baculum: Set curl connection timeout

baculum: Show error message after connection to api test

baculum: Update LICENSE file

baculum: Solve old browser cache problem for javascript after upgrade

baculum: New redesigned web interface

baculum: Changes in api for the redesigned web interface

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1108 1170 1826 2212 2343 2356 2382 2385 2389 2910 3098 3593 3615 3672 3745 3824 3854 3945