On 3 Dec 2006 at 16:26, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > As most of you know Bacula release version 1.40 is nearing -- it was > originally scheduled for mid-November but delayed due to my vacation and > several bugs. > > I'm still targeting it before the end of the year, but it looks like one > major > new feature will not be enabled, and that is data encryption. The code just > is not stable (it doesn't pass a simple regression test), and it affects the > Volume data format, and it has known bugs (digest problems), which means that > if any fixes involve changing the data format (as one does that I found this > morning), it will create incompatible Bacula Volumes. This have never > happened before in the 7 years of Bacula's existence. > > The bottom line is that unless I have a definitive solution (i.e. a bug fix > rather than a rewrite) to the remaining encryption problems by next Friday, 8 > December, it will most probably not be a Bacula feature until much later (mid > to late 2007). > > One alternative solution is to postpone the release of version 1.40 until > late > March 2007. Since in all other respects 1.40 is ready to go it would be a > shame to postpone the release any longer. Obviously as with all new releases > there is the possibility of a few bugs particularly in the new features, but > there should be no show stoppers such as Volume format incompatibility that > are present in the encryption code. > > As always, your comments are welcome.
Perhaps two releases. One bigger, one smaller: One soon, without data encryption. One a little bit later, with data encryption, provided it's ready. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users