Release Notes
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See Bareos Binary Release Policy for more information about available versions.
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and since Bareos version 20 this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Unreleased
Changed
23.0.4 - 2024-09-10
Added
build: enable building for Fedora40 and Ubuntu 24.04 PR #1898
Changed
VMware Plugin: Adapt to Python 3.12 PR #1879
matrix remove obsolete SUSE PR #1906
VMware Plugin: Add option restore_allow_disks_mismatch PR #1905
Use only MinGW VSS PR #1896
dird: disallow running always incremental virtual full jobs with empty jobid list PR #1901
cats: scripts add option –no-psqlrc to psql PR #1926
webui: properly set focus to input box after each command PR #1940
Fixed
python-bareos: fix description PR #1841
fix sql error on bad virtualfull; detect parsing errors with strtod PR #1842
windows: fix some crashes, change handling of invalid paths; lex: add better error detection; accurate: fix out of bounds writes PR #1860
create_bareos_database: fix
db_name
not being double quoted PR #1869dir: fix crash on purge with job without client PR #1861
fix runtime status PR #1874
msgchan: fix deadlock PR #1904
python-bareos: fix backslash usage in regex PR #1930
webui: fixing selenium tests PR #1924
vadp-dumper: fix out of bounds read PR #1918
filed: fix python plugin crash on python <3.10 PR #1913
freebsd: fix build issues with ports tree 2024Q3 PR #1884
Security
Fix multiple ACL handling bugs PR #1890 CVE-2024-45044
Documentation
23.0.3 - 2024-06-04
Added
Add FreeBSD 13.3 and 14.0 PR #1779
Changed
filed: skip stripped top level directories PR #1726
Require python3 explicit PR #1729
dbcheck: fix dbcheck crash if password is not set in catalog resource PR #1730
Bugfix: Clean up error handling in LDAP plugin, fix dependencies PR #1720
VMware Plugin: Backup and Restore NVRAM PR #1733
doc: add backtick around .? description PR #1757
python-bareos: use TLS-PSK from core ssl module (available since Python >= 3.13) PR #1764
docs: improve handling of ResourceItem descriptions PR #1766
stored: fix some sd error messages; add additional check during restore; split up always-incremental-consolidate test PR #1769
Allow cross-building for Windows on newer compiler PR #1776
replace https://bugs.bareos.org by https://github.com/bareos/bareos/issues/ PR #1813
tools: remove perl in mtx changer PR #1816
Build ULC and EL_9 for aarch64 PR #1827
webui: fix and improve update check PR #1833
Documentation
Fixed
stored: fix authentication race condition / deadlock PR #1737
stored: fix not counting files correctly in mac jobs when autoxflate is enabled PR #1748
cats: fixes BigSqlQuery header fetching PR #1749
Fix warning about missing delcandidates table in director PR #1743
Fix missing DLL in windows packaging PR #1817
VMware Plugin: Adapt to older urllib3 versions PR #1831
fix various memory leaks PR #1828
23.0.2 - 2024-02-28
Added
Changed
Fixed
bareos-config: fix output of deploy_config PR #1673
filed: fix vss during client initiated connections PR #1666
webui: Backup Unit Report fixes PR #1698
windows: fix calculation of “job_metadata.xml” object size PR #1703
stored: fix storage daemon crash if passive client is unreachable, create better session keys PR #1700
bareos-triggerjob: fix parameter handling PR #1709
core: Fix compile errors on GCC 14 PR #1693
core: fix various data races (connection_pool/heartbeat_thread) PR #1711
23.0.1 - 2024-01-17
Changed
pkglists: update SUSE to have vmware packages PR #1633
python-bareos: use socket.create_connection() to allow AF_INET6 PR #1650
core: add build patch for
sprintf
in macos builds PR #1651Improve FreeBSD build PR #1643
core: sql_* add leading space to sql construct PR #1657
Fix bareos_tasks plugin for pgsql PR #1660
plugins: postgresql fix missing pg_backup_stop() call PR #1664
Fixed
23.0.0 - 2023-12-13
Breaking changes
Automatic downgrades to cleartext connections are now disabled by default. Connecting to Bareos filedaemon < 18.2 is not possible anymore - even if configured with TLS certificates. Please update your clients. Only if you absolutely cannot update a client you can configure
TLS Enable = no
explicitly. However, this is inherently insecure.The old catalog backup script
make_catalog_backup.pl
has been removed. Its replacementmake_catalog_backup
was already the default. If you didn’t already update your BackupCatalog job, now is the time to do so.Support for Windows x86 (32Bit) has been removed.
Support for Python 2 has been removed.
The following deprecated configuration options have been removed, make sure to update your configuration accordingly:
Director daemon
Pid Directory
Maximum Connections
File daemon
Pid Directory
Compatible
Maximum Connections
Storage daemon
Pid Directory
Compatible
Maximum Connections
The following configuration defaults have changed:
Director daemon
Hard Links = no
(wasyes
) in FileSet->Include->OptionsTLS Require = yes
(wasno
)
Storage daemon
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
(was0
) in DeviceMaximum Block Size = 1048576
(was0
) in DeviceTLS Require = yes
(wasno
)
File daemon
TLS Require = yes
(wasno
)
The PostgreSQL plugin got a complete rewrite, the minimal changes are:
module_name=bareos-fd-postgresql
db_host=
wal_archive_dir=
Added
file checksums: add new signature algorithm xxh128 PR #1359
stored: buffer fd messages PR #1539
filed: parallel compression/reading/sending PR #1533
cats: postgresql introduce pl/sql lstat_decode() function PR #1466
bareos-fd-plugin: new python PostgreSQL PR #1541
Improve python plugin configuration PR #1619
tls: add tls v1.3 configuration option PR #1577
restore: add fileregex parameter PR #1618
webui: add machine-readable copyright file PR #1419
webui: add config resource graph to analytics (experimental) PR #1412
build: add Debian 12 PR #1477
build: add Fedora 38 PR #1563
build: add Fedora 39 PR #1615
devtools: add
pr-tool
to automate PR review and merge PR #935
Changed
VMware Plugin: introduce pyVmomi 8.x compatibility PR #1352
VMware Plugin: Backup and Restore of VMs using multiple datastores PR #1473
VMware Plugin: improve snapshot cleanup PR #1484
webui: enable sorting on version column PR #1365
webui: create internal api module PR #1447
webui: make restore merge options configurable PR #1445
webui: update German translation PR #1437
webui: update localization PR #1414
webui: improve localization process PR #1429
webui: re-add show update status for clients PR #1371
webui: upgrade bootstrap to version 3.4.1 PR #1550
tray-monitor: build against Qt6 when present PR #1011
dird: skip disabled clients in status command PR #1367
ua_restore: Add additional client info for restore report PR #1374
ua_restore: enable restore from archive PR #1372
dird: enable default options in
fileset
config when no options are explicitly specified PR #1357dird: cats: adapt
purge
command to delete jobs with specific jobstatus and/or from specific pool PR #1349dird: allow to disable TLS-PSK downgrades PR #1398
dird: keep copy and migration control/administrative jobs PR #1421
dird: deprecate client
Autoprune
,JobRetention
, andFileRetention
PR #1425dird: cats: abort purge when there are no eligible jobids PR #1512
dird: show current and allowed console connections PR #1487
dird: add prev and new jobid variables PR #1499
dird:
list jobs
: addlevel
keyword and accept a list of job levels PR #1548consolidate: make virtualfull jobs spawned by consolidate job inherit same priority and max concurrent jobs PR #1530
database: improve subscription view PR #1542
update
Maximum Concurrent Jobs
default value to 1 PR #1426stored: change default block size to 1 MiB PR #1396
stored: add AccessMode SD->Device directive to reserve devices exclusively for reading or writing PR #1464
stored: automatically increment tape block size in case the buffer is too small PR #1496
vss: remove dependency on live system during backup PR #1452
bsmtp: make mailhost and port message info a debug message PR #1507
improve default configuration PR #1508
ua_restore: change restore argument handling PR #1516
plugins: switch python-ldap plugin to python3 PR #1522
python-fd: allow fd plugins to (re-)set since-time and disable/re-enable timestamp/accurate checks PR #1505
python-bareos: add missing
dirname
variable PR #1460python-bareos: add timeout setting when connecting to the director. PR #1583
python: adapt for new Python module versions PR #1546
Python Plugins: Avoid pop(0) performance impact PR #1351
config: deprecate
LabelType
andCheckLabels
PR #1521daemons: set CLI11 error exit code to
41
and bareos config parsing error exit code to42
PR #1515require TLS by default PR #1529
database: media table: use bigint instead of integer PR #1579
configuration: deprecate base jobs PR #1580
Enable automatic cpu-dependent dispatch for xxHash PR #1601
packaging: systemd unit: set a limit of restart PR #1450
Allow to use the third-party libraries of the OS instead of the bundled ones PR #1441
scripts: config-lib improve get_local_hostname fallback PR #1402
cleanup: remove some unused functions and shrink number of includes in bareos.h PR #1433
rename gettext macro PR #1588
build: replace sprintf by snprintf due to upgraded MacOS compiler, change linking of googletest PR #1361
introduce php-cs-fixer and apply PSR-12 guidelines PR #1403
berrno_test.cc: accept both 271E and 273E PR #1407
Sanitizers: add ASAN options to avoid crashes PR #1410
packaging: cleanup SUSE webui dependencies PR #1493
build: adapt matrix and pkglist for changes to CI PR #1490
build: switch from FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 PR #1524
build: switch to FreeBSD 12.4 PR #1440
FreeBSD: build cleanup PR #1336
testfind: reuse filedaemon logic PR #1234
core: make resource/configuration locking safer PR #1325
systemtests:
rename virtualfull
->virtualfull-basic
,bareos
->bareos-basic
,bconsole
->bconsole-basic
PR #1339improvements to pr-tool PR #1389
pr-tool: handling POEditor commits and optional github ci tests PR #1434
pr-tool: Add options to be used in CI runs PR #1488
bareos-check-sources: ignore bootstrap*.css PR #1556
utils: add a thread-safe single-producer/single-consumer queue PR #1504
devtools: Update python dependencies PR #1531
scripts: force cd / for all PostgreSQL scripts PR #1608
dird: remove optimize_for_size/optimize_for_speed PR #1613
macOS: fix linking problem for macOS >= 14 PR #1620
filedaemon: remove ovirt plugin PR #1626
vadp-dumper: fix multithreaded backup/restore issues PR #1623
VMware Plugin: Run bareos_vadp_dumper with optimized parameters to increase backup performance PR #1631
Removed
cats: remove remains of deprecated databases PR #1377
dird: filed: stored: remove deprecated
maximumconnections
option from configuration PR #1340filed: stored: remove deprecated
compatible
option from configuration PR #1341daemons: remove deprecated
Pid Directory
config option PR #1426core: remove deprecated make_catalog_backup.pl PR #1378
build: remove python2 support PR #1520
build: disable building for Windows 32-bit PR #1582
build: remove openSUSE 15.3 and Univention 5.0 from test matrix PR #1469
cats: remove dynamic catalog backends PR #1392
remove no longer used pkglists PR #1335
Remove unnecessary loader/module split in Python modules for the FD PR #1602
webui: remove some development leftovers and artefacts PR #1422
Fixed
VMware Plugin: Fix backup and recreating VMs with PCI passthrough for GPU PR #1565
VMware Plugin: Fix transformer issues PR #1532
VMware Plugin: fix restore to different vmname PR #1390
vmware_cbt_tool.py: pyVmomi 8.x compatibility PR #1386
stored: fix support for non-tape block-addressed devices PR #1554
stored: remove warning for maximum block size for tapes PR #1375
stored: fix crashes of storage tools when autoxflate plugin is loaded PR #1348
storage daemon: fix crash on volume swap PR #1356
status storage: fix wrong data displayed about waiting jobs PR #1476
stored: fix blocksize warning PR #1503
stored: fix incoherent meta data when concurrently writing to the same volume PR #1495
daemons: update network handling when IP protocols unavailable PR #1454
autoxflate: fix autoxflate on replication PR #1576
core: fix schema public with PostgreSQL 15 PR #1449
cats: fix issue where
startfile
field gets wrongly updated PR #1346cats: fix for integer overflow issue when using
offset
inllist
PR #1547catreq.cc: suppress missing batch con warning PR #1578
postgresql plugin: read config parameters from cluster PR #1599
cats: fix creates, grants and drops postgresql PR #1502
Improve handling of catalog requests that try to reduce VolFiles, VolBlocks and VolBytes PR #1431
dird: fix expected file count error during bsr build PR #1511
tools: fix tools not starting up on windows PR #1549
bsmtp: fix and update code, and change CLI parsing to CLI11 PR #1316
restore: fix failed restores showing
Restore ok with warning
PR #1387json generation: Fix some leaks and an integer overflow PR #1130
bsmtp bls bextract: fixes for command line parsing PR #1455
checkpoints: fix performance drop on big volume restores PR #1345
Fix problem with reoccuring files in always incremental PR #1395
Consolidate: fix for consolidate job’s client name not being correctly shown PR #1474
filed: fix possible data-loss when excluding hardlinks PR #1506
filed: avoid reading from ephemeral buffer PR #1373
filed: fix off-by-one error when resizing acl buffer PR #1479
core: fixes for gcc-13 support PR #1424
build: fix for gcc 13.1.1 PR #1459
Fix gcc warnings in ndmjob program PR #1343
packaging: debian fix dependencies PR #1573
github actions: update/fix publish to PyPI workflows PR #1572
github actions: PyPi: install setuptools PR #1604
scripts: config-lib improve setup_sd_user PR #1448
dird: fix
purge oldest volume
PR #1629
Documentation
add explanation about binary version numbers PR #1354
docs: improve bareos-webui documentation PR #1366
docs: catalog maintenance improvements PR #1379
doc: improve plugin, webui, virtualfull chapters PR #1401
docs: move and update localization documentation PR #1415
check-sources: update check-sources ignores PR #1439
docs: replace GZIP compression by LZ4 and MD5/SHA1 signature by XXH128 PR #1453
docs: Windows add Antivirus section PR #1468
doc: renew tutorial, suggest passive client, restructure heartbeat interval PR #1543
docs: improvements for droplet, jobdefs, concurrents jobs for restore PR #1611