[Bacula-devel] Bacula BETA 1.35.8 released to Source Forge

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

Hello,

I have released Bacula BETA version 1.35.8 to Source Forge (both the
tar.gz source and the Win32 binaries). I hope this will be the last beta
version before the official release of version 1.36.0 in a week or so,
and would appreciate as much testing and feedback as possible.

I have completed most of the documentation and the main remaining task
before release is platform testing on Solaris and FreeBSD as well as
testing of new features.  Packagers probably should download this
version and begin preparing for the 1.36.0 release since it is unlikely
any of the file structure will be changed.


Best regards, Kern

PS: If you are among those of us who would like to see new versions of
Bacula tested more, now is the time to step forward -- this version is
ready for release!

Changes for 1.35.8
Major Changes:
- Tray monitor program
- Bacula Rescue CDROM
- Bacula CD Image Manager
- Lots of improvements in the Rescue scripts -- better
  network detection, better mounting code, ...
- General bug fixes/stabilization
- French translation of manual by Ludovic Strappazon well
  underway.
- UTF-8 is supported in conio (some minor cleanup is needed).
- Improved conf scanning code allowing FileSet components to
  be put on a single line (previously everything had to be on
  a different line).
- Win32 files restored to an alternate directory will have the
  colon following the drive letter turned into a / e.g. c:
  becomes c/. Previously the c: was stripped. This applies only
  to files written to an alternate directory (i.e. using a where=).
- Certain open files (Word for example) can now be saved on
  Win32 systems.
- Default for Wild-cards on Win32 systems is to fold case this
  should correct most of the problems users are having with
  exclusion on Win32.
                                                                                       
New Directives:
- Added "Rerun Failed levels = yes/no" in the Job resource
  of the Director. It will upgrade the current job to a
  higher level (Full or Differential) if a previous job
  of that level failed.
- Added "Ignore FileSet Changes = yes/no" in the FileSet
  directive of the Director. It prevents the Director from
  immediately upgrading the job to a Full save if you modify
  the contents of the FileSet. Not recommended.
- Added "Block positioning = yes/no" in Device resource in SD.
  If set to no, Bacula should (as yet untested) be able to
  recover data from tapes where the drive was set to fixed
  blocksize but Bacula is in variable block size.
- Added "Multiple connections = yes/no" in Catalog record for
  allowing multiple simultaneous connections to the database.
  This is a major performance improvement for PostgreSQL.
                                                                                       
Items to note!!!
- As of 1.35.5 you MUST do a database update.
                                                                                       
  cd scripts-dir (or src/cats)
  ./update_bacula_tables
                                                                                       
- All daemons should be compatible with 1.34 with the exception
  of the new FileSet features such as regular expressions.
- Regular expressions are not supported in the Win32 FD.
                                                                                       
Other Items:
See the full ReleaseNotes/ChangeLog for more details.