[Bacula-announce] Bacula version 1.38.3 released to Source Forge

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

Earlier today, I released Bacula version 1.38.3 to Source Forge.  You can find 
the following packages:

bacula section:
   bacula-1.38.3.tar.gz
   bacula-docs-1.38.3.tar.gz
   bacula-gui-1.38.3.tar.gz

Win32 section:
   winbacula-1.38.3.exe

rescue section:
   bacula-rescue-1.8.2.tar.gz

rpms section
   bacula-1.38.3-1.src.rpm

Except for one small modification I made yesterday, this version has been in 
continuous production here since 22Dec05 with no problems.  There still 
remain a few issues to clean up with version 1.38, which I will hopefully 
complete over the next week or two.

Below you will find the ReleaseNotes made since version 1.38.2 (quite a lot). 
If you are upgrading from 1.36.3 or prior, please read the full release 
notes.

I would like to thank everyone who has worked on this version especially the 
patient testers :-)

I've noticed that a number of the ports packages are quite out of date (all 
except FreeBSD if I am not mistaken), and I am hoping that this email will 
convince the packagers will bring their work up to date.  

With one exception, I think most of the contributors have been acknowledged 
either in emails, in the release notes or some place.  If this is not the 
case, please let me know.  

The above said, you should know that Russell Howe (russell_howe at wreckage 
dot org) has been silently working to keep spam from hitting the bacula-users 
and bacula-devel lists. This has been a big help as there are is a *lot* of 
spam that hits our lists -- I know first hand from dealing with it while 
Russell was on vacation. Many thanks Russell.  :-)


Changes to 1.38.3:
- This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive
  reservation algorithm has been rewritten.
- In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be
  mounted and the mount messages has been modified.
  (the above two items are a potential source of problems).
- Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
  volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code.
- Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
- Return a zero when "autochanger drives" is called and
  it is not an autochanger.
- Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
  This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
  rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
  file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
- Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
  if the device is open or not.  This should eliminate
  Arnos problem.
- Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
- Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
- Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
  code. This should fix bug #500.
- Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
- Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
  of the mode.
- If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
  You have messages.
- Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
  only .messages instead of messages.  Hopefully this fixes bug
  #514.
- Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers.
- Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
  more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
  jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
- Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
- Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
- Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
- Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
- Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
- Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
  for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
- Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
- Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
- Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
  and always open nonblocking.
- Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
- Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
- Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
  message.
- With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
- Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
- When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
- Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
- Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
- Use localhost if no network configured
- Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
- Update specs to include mysql4 define.
- Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
- Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
  correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
  Bug # 506.
- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
  to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
  IP. Fixes bug # 508.
- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
  Christian Masopust.
- Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
  from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
- Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
  Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
- Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
  errors.  Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
- Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
- Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
- Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
  caused an error.
- Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
- Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
  at the same time.
- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
  If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
  "list nextvol days=xx"
  or
  "status dir days=xx"
  My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
  next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
  the weekend.
- Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
- Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
  fixes bug 502
- Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
- Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
- Remove old code from winservice.cpp
- Break on error in scan.
- Fix typo in signal.c
- Separate read/write DCR in SD.  Add jcr->read_dcr.
- Cleanup how find_device() works.
- Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491.

-- 
Best regards,

Kern

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