Releases

Bacula Release 9.4.3

This release 9.4.3 is a bug fix release for version 9.4.2. It includes a number of bug fixes and patches.

Baculum: there have been significant additions and changes to Baculum.
If you want a web gui please check it out.

S3 driver: If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:

https://www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20181010.tar.gz

As usual the binaries that correspond to this release will follow in a week or two.

Bacula Release 9.4.2

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.2

This is a bug fix release to the prior version (9.4.1). It includes a number of bug fixes and patches. Thanks to the community for your participation.
9 bug reports were closed. In addition this version should fix virtually all the build problems found on FreeBSD.

We recommend that all users upgrade to this release.

If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:

Bacula Release 9.4.1

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.1

This is a minor bug fix release for 9.4.0. It should fix a few of the warning messages, but not all, on FreeBSD and Solaris. More importantly The ./configure process now properly detects that libs3 is installed on your system. If you do not want to use the Amazon S3 driver, this update is not required.

In addition to this release, I have posted the current source code with patches for libs3 to bacula.org. This package is needed if you wish to build the S3 driver. You may download it from the following location:

Bacula Release 9.4.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.0. This is a major release (currently a Beta release) comprised of more than 13,000 lines of differences since version 9.2.2. It has updates to Baculum and small number of bug fixes and back ports from Bacula Systems Enterprise since version 9.2.2, but primarily it […]

Bacula Release 9.2.2

We are pleased to announce Bacula release version 9.2.2.. This is a minor bug fix release (6,143 lines of diff). The main fixes to this version are: eliminate most messages that are repeatedly printed, eliminate malformed message output, error when compiling without TLS, … Note: if you are running MySQL and have not recently executed src/cats/update_bacula_tables, please do so. It will not change your database version but it will fix some potential MySQL problems (for more detals see the release notes for version 9.2.1).

Bacula Release 9.2.1

We are pleased to announce the minor bug and refactoring release version 9.2.1.

This is a bug fix release. It also contains some refactoring. That said,
there are 10,909 lines of diff between release 9.2.0 and this release.

Bacula Release 9.2.0

We are pleased to announce that we have just released Bacula version 9.2.0 to Source Forge and to www.bacula.org. In addition, a new version of Baculum (Web GUI interface) will be released shortly.
This is one of the biggest Bacula release ever made. It has almost 540,000 lines of diff output between Release 9.0.8 and this release.

Bacula Status Report — 9 June 2018

It has been a while since the last status report, so it is now time.
I would like to discuss the following subjects:
1. Bacula Release Status
2. Bacula Binaries (New)
3. Windows Binaries (more coming)
4. Next Bacula Version

Bacula 9.0.8

We are pleased to announce that we have just released Bacula version 9.0.8 to Source Forge (and soon on www.bacula.org). This is a minor release that fixes a couple of bugs and corrects some copyrights that were not totally correct. 28May18 – Fix bug #2212 where restore jobid=nn file=xxx restores the files twice – Pull […]

Bacula 9.0.7

This is a significant release because it now has the Windows code reintegrated and updated to work with this version. Other than Baculum updates and the new Windows update, there is no significant change to the other code.

If you wish to use the Windows 9.0.7 File daemon binaries with your existing 9.0.x Bacula Director and Storage daemon it should work fine but has not been tested.

About the author

Rob Morrison

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.