Hello, Our Bacula Systems gnome gurus have been working hard in the Swiss mountains, and their work is now released as Bacula version 7.2.0. You can find the source code at Source Forge as usual.
This version has quite a number of difficult and important bug fixes over version 7.0.5 as well as a good number of new features. I won't attempt to list all the new features here, but suggest that you look at the New Features chapter of the manual. Please note that there may be a few new features documented in the 7.2. section of the manual that were actually in 7.0.5 -- I just ran out of time at the end, so rather than miss a feature, I took the risk to include some already released. This version has not been tested in production yet, so please test it carefully. That said, it is largely based on Bacula Enterprise version 8.2, which is extremely stable and it also has a number of fixes and features from the next, yet unreleased, Enterprise version as well as *all* the Enterprise bug fixes. For certain of the new features, and a couple more yet to come, this version has a new catalog layout, which means that you must do a catalog upgrade (it is relatively simple). As always, please backup your database prior to applying the upgrade procedure. Previously we supplied an update script for only one version. To avoid the proliferation of upgrade scripts in the future, we have settled on a single script (update_bacula_tables), which will upgrade from version 3.0.x to version 5.2.x (same as 7.0.x) and to the new 7.2.0 format. So the procedure much simpler. As soon as we can update the bacula.org web site to have a sort of more automated download area, we will move our source release to the bacula.org web site and begin furnishing binaries. Many thanks to Bacula Systems for providing the bug fixes and new features. Since the development process in Bacula Systems is going faster (more programmers), we can expect even more features in future versions. You may notice a few license/copyright changes, but these are all very positive for the community version and its future. I will go into it in more detail on this point in a Status Report that will follow this announcement in a few days. Thanks for using Bacula. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
