Release 9.0.5

Release 9.0.5

I am pleased to announce that we have just released Bacula version 9.0.5
This is an important bug fix release. In particular it fixes the cases
where Bacula would print a very large number of error messages. Additional
backported code from Bacula Enterprise is included as well as updates to
the rpm scripts. A number of minor Baculum issues have also been
corrected.

01Nov17
– Use if exists on dropping MAC table in postgres. Fixes bug #2314
– Fix bdirjson display of Minutes. Fixes bug #2318
– baculum: Set default language if no language set
– baculum: Fix language setting in api
– baculum: Update generated .mo files for api
– baculum: Add missing texts to translations
– baculum: Fix add to translation static texts on the api default page
– baculum: Fix missing session start
– Make verify job log same as other logs — fixes bug #2328
– Take a more conservative approach for setting killable true
– Add extra safety for readdir buffer

31Oct17
– Retab systemd/Makefile.in
– Don’t require mount for @piddir@
– Use Debian systemd start/stop scripts supplied by Sven Hartge

29Oct17
– Fix bug #2316 add CacheRetention to Pool
– Skip tape ioctls on FreeBSD when using a FIFO fixes bug #2324
– Fix bug #2338 to not truncate already truncated volumes
– Remove some old C int code and use bool

28Oct17
– Remove unused lib/lz4.c.orig file
– Update AUTHORS file
– Mark Volume read-only only if no access rights or read-only partition
– Add -P daemon option to supress creating PID file
– Fix too big copy to test FD plugin_ctx

26Oct17
– Backport Enterprise code

23Oct17
– When read-only volume found mark it in catalog — fixes bug #2337
– Make out of space on partition fatal
– Fix bug 2323 — loop exit condition was backward and add error message
– Add missing copy-plugin-confs for regress
– Fix bug reported by jesper@schmitz.computer where bat hangs on FreeBSD

08Oct17
– baculum: Fix reading and writing schedule resource

15Sep17
– baculum: Fix undefined offset error during saving director config
– baculum: Fix listing days of week in schedule setting

14Sep17
– baculum: Fix saving schedule run directive value

12Sep17
– rpm: Add missing script baculabackupreport and query.sql for Suse
– rpm: Add missing libbacsd* file and tapealert script to Suse rpm spec file
– rpm: Add missing libs bbconsjson, bdirjson and bsdjson to Suse rpm spec
file
– rpm: Add aligned plugin rpm spec file for Suse
– rpm: Add bacula-tray-monitor.desktop launcher in scripts directory
– rpm: Add Suse Linux ES 12.1 platform

11Sep17
– rpm: Add bacula-tray-monitor.desktop file in script dir

Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
2314 2316 2318 2324 2328 2337 2338

Thanks for using Bacula.

About the author

Rob Morrison started his IT career with Silicon Graphics in Switzerland, which developed into a wide variety of IT management roles for almost 10 years. He has subsequently held various management positions in professional open source companies such as JBoss, Red Hat and Pentaho, contributing to the growth of these well-known companies. He is a graduate of Plymouth University and holds an Digital Media and Communications BSc Honours degree, and completed an Overseas Studies Program.

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