Am 31.05.23 um 10:15 schrieb Willem Basson:
Indeed, we had 18 months. But we didn't know that we had 18 months, because old versions were historically still available, so readying ourselves for Bareos upgrades hasn't featured as the most important thing to do yet. We made a temporary plan by pulling old packages out of our backups for the time being.
I'm glad you found a solution that works for you right now.We also realize that a lot of people are running old version of Bareos (a lot of people still seem to run 17.2). What we're trying to do is to "push" the community to switch to the latest version, so we get more feedback on that.
Breaking anyone's Bareos setup was definitely not one of our goals!
What would have been great, is for at least a short period of time, there was also a 'previous' repo at downloads.bareos.org. Even a month or 3 would suffice. Right now, there is now way to cleanly and confidently move servers from one version to another. But I totally understand if your reasoning is that we need to pay if we need that functionality, since you don't recommend using the community version in production.We announced that change. On December 19th 2022 when the new release policy was announced, we clearly stated that outdated and discontinued versions of Bareos will be removed from the download server. That new release policy was also mentioned in the press release for Bareos 22. While the policy change basically stated that old packages would go away immediately, we left the packages there for more than four months so people had some time to adapt and migrate.
I somehow feel that we're bad at communicating stuff like that, because a lot of people seem to not have noticed before the packages actually went away. If anybody has an idea how we can improve on that, please go ahead and tell us!
That would be nice. I spoke to sales yesterday and explained your situation. If you reach out to them, I'm pretty sure they can come up with some kind of solution that works for you.Maybe I should reach out to sales about bulk licensing?
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