Release Notes for Bacula Community 9.6

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Release 9.6.7 03 Dec 2020

This is a minor bug fix that corrects among other things the MySQL/MariaDB schemas. This is the last release of the 9.6.x series.

Restore custom permission of symlink on FreeBSD and MacOS

Fix #2582 bextract is broken for sparse gzip and compressed streams

Fix org#2567 device capabilities overwritten

baculum: Update script version

Fix org#2573 About Syntax error in granting privileges script with MySQL if –with-db-password parameter is used

Fix org#2471 About deleted files are listed as being present in an accurate backup by various sample queries

Fix org#2571 About errors in es_AR.po file

Fix org#2568 About compilation issue on gcc10

Fix org#2584 About inconsitancies in the make_mysql_tables script

baculum: Fix English text noticed by Peter McDonald

baculum: Update Russian translations

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Implement graphical status storage

baculum: Add gauge.js library

baculum: Add json output option to show storages and show single storage endpoints

baculum: Add path field to restore wizard to narrow down search file results to specific path - idea proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Add path parameter to job files API endpoint

baculum: Fix #2565 status icon overlaps action buttons in API wizard

baculum: Add Sergey Zhidkov to AUTHORS

baculum: Add Russian translations

baculum: Fix access to job resources if no job assigned to user

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Ajax queue improvement in framework

baculum: Fix renaming config resources

baculum: Add graphs to job view page

baculum: Fix using offset in job file list query with MySQL catalog database

baculum: Show more detailed job file list - idea proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Rework job file list API endpoint

baculum: Add searching jobs by filename in restore wizard - idea proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Add job files API endpoint

Add code to retry a MySQL query after a deadlock

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Add default days and limit values to status schedules API endpoint

baculum: Fix displaying multitextbox and multicombobox directive controls

baculum: Fix date filter on status schedule page

baculum: Fix #2570 fileset excludes settings with PHP 7.4

baculum: New features and improvements to multi-user interface and restricted access

Release 9.6.6 18 Sep 2020

This is a minor bug fix release. Unless there is some new major bug found, this will be the last of the 9.6.x releases. The next release major release (a really big one) is currently scheduled for December. More about this in a subsequent status report.

baculum: Fix displaying date and time on volume view page

baculum: Fix #2564 changing volume status to Read-Only

baculum: Fix saving multicombobox control values

baculum: Fix multicombobox and multitextbox controls to work with PHP 7.4

baculum: Fix #2562 displaying date and time in tables on Safari

Update copyright year

Clarify SD vbackup device error message

Fix MT2554 :update upload_cache call in dircmd.c

zero malloced memory when SMARTALLOC not enabled

baculum: Fix #2558 saving day or day range in schedule resource - reported by Jose Alberto

Fix MT2554 :upgrade upload_cache interface.

Eliminate compiler errors when smartalloc is turned off

baculum: Fix date formatter to work with PHP 7.4

baculum: Fix configure Bacula hosts page to work with PHP 7.4

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: Change colours in table headers and borders

baculum: Add remove runscript button

Fix #6366 About an issue with verify job level=DiskToCatalog

baculum: Close modal windows on pressing ESC key

baculum: Fix logout button on authorization failed page

baculum: Add local user authentication method support

baculum: Add date and time formatters - idea proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Enable re-running jobs in async way and visual improvements

baculum: Change cursor over selectable table

Fix build script copyright detection

release: add code to detect Bacula Systems copyrights and fail release

Fix compilation of bsnapshot on Fedora

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2558 6366

Release 9.6.4 08 Jun 2020

This is a major security and bug fix release. We suggest everyone to upgrade as soon as possible.

One significant improvement is for the AWS S3 cloud driver. First the code base has been brought much closer to the Enterprise version (still a long ways to go). Second is that the community code now uses the latest version of libs3 as maintained by Bacula Systems. The libs3 code is available as a tar file for Bacula version 9.6.4 at: www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20200523.tar.gz

Note: Version 9.6.4 must be compiled with the above libs3 version or later. To build libs3:

Remove any libs3 package loaded by your OS
Download above link
tar xvfz libs3-20200523.tar.gz
cd libs3-20200523
make # should have no errors
sudo make install

Then when you do your Bacula ./configure <args> it should automatically detect and use the libs3. The output from the ./configure will show whether or not libs3 was found during the configuration. E.g.

S3 support: yes

in the output from ./configure.

Add configure variables to baculabackupreport. Patch from bug #2538

Fix orphaned buffers in cloud by adding truncate argument to end_of_job()

Improve clarity of Cloud part mismatches and make it an INFO message rather than a WARNING since it corrects the catalog.

Small trivial change to check_parts

Backport more Enterprise cloud parts changes

Backport cloud upload code from Enterprise

Update s3_driver.c to new libs3 API calling sequence

Fix tray-monitor installation

Recompile ./configure

Add ./configure code to check for and enable/disable S3 support

win32: Fix org#2547 About possible NULL pointer dereference in get_memory_info

Ensure cloud driver loaded when listing cloud volumes

baculum: Request #2546 support for full restore when file records for backup job are pruned

baculum: Fix problem with authorization error after upgrade

baculum: Add UPGRADE file

baculum: Fix returning value in TStyleDiff - generated notice with PHP 7.4

baculum: Remove execute bit for framework scripts

baculum: Fix displaying empty column button in table column visibility menu -

reported by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Update Polish translations

baculum: Update Portuguese translations

baculum: New user management. LDAP support. Role-based access control.

Fix new compiler warnings + always use bstrncpy not strncpy to ensure EOS at end of string

Return smartalloc buffers zeroed – future performance improvement

Improve scanning data/time, fixes bug #2472

Make ABORT mention segfault to clarify non-bug #2528

Make reading a short block a warning rather than error

baculum: Fix validators in run job modal window

Remove unused -t option in dbcheck.c – fixes bug #2453

Fix bug 2523 – spurious extra linking

Fix bug #2534 possible double free in error case

Fix possible sscanf overflows

Fix overflow from malicious FD reported by Pasi Saarinen

baculum: Add option to show time in job log - idea proposed by Wanderlei Huttel

baculum: Add show log time parameter to job log endpoint

baculum: Add tip about using table row selection

Fix bug #2525 seg fault when doing estimate with accurate and MD5

baculum: Fix issues with SELinux support reported by Neil MacGregor

Correct some copyrights

Add Docker plugin rpm spec files

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 2453 2472 2525 2528 2534 2538 2546 2547

Release Notes for Bacula 9.6.3 09 Mar 2020

This is a minor bug fix (mostly fixing incorrect copyrights) to Release-9.6.2.

Eliminate false error when droping postgres table MAC
Apply Carsten’s character set fix for the docs. Many thanks!
Fix logic error in clearing bit on Windows
baculum: Update Portuguese translations
baculum: Update Polish translations
baculum: Add patch to PRADO framework 4.0.1 for supporting PostgreSQL 12 catalog database
baculum: Add support for PostgreSQL 12 catalog database
Enhance failed bpipe to changer error message
Clean up some incorrect copyrights
Correct spelling errors in messages
Add to plugins links
baculum: Add bulk actions for job history and volume tables
baculum: Update DataTables and its plugins
docker: Update copyright headers.
Update BSD copyright on *.conf.in files
docker: Remove unneeded tar binary.
Fix workaround for Sun C++ recommended by Phil Stracchino
baculum: Update Polish translations
baculum: Update Portuguese translations

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: None

Release 9.6.2 26 Feb 2020

This is a minor new release with several new features and a number of bug fixes. The catalog database 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

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

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