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Release Bacula Community Edition 9.6.2

Release 9.6.2 26Feb20

This is a minor new release with several new features and a number of bug fixes. The catalog datbase 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readline, and Release-9.6.1 had an inappropriate file size for the readline history file, so both releases have been withdrawn.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

26Feb20

  • Apply fix for history size from Martin Simmons
  • Fix missing part of patch 8135b9d2 -- 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 - reported by Frédéric F.
  • 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