Bareos 25.0.3

We are happy to announce maintenance release 25.0.3

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• On Debian and Ubuntu you can now disable database dumps on schema upgrades that are done by dbconfig [PR #2538]
• Barri parameter names between plugin and cli are now the same [PR #2570]
• status subscription now calculates values based on the new price-list [PR #2602]
• Director configuration options File Retention and Job Retention for Pool resources are now deprecated [PR #2573]
• Director configuration option Write Verify List is now deprecated [PR #2573]
• Bareos can now be built using GCC 16 [PR #2604]

Bugfixes

• The mariabackup plugin will no longer fail on invalid utf8 [PR #2560]
• Hyper-V plugin now correctly automerges AVHDX differencing disks after RCT backup [PR #2596]
• The read timeout in the Proxmox plugin was increased [PR #2545]
• A bug in the Windows installer that broke substitutions in the configuration files has been fixed [PR #2574]
• A bug in the dedup backend that could lead to a leaking file-descriptor has been fixed [PR #2549]
• A previously missing lock in the volume manager has been added [PR #2582]
• A memory leak in the grpc filedaemon plugin was fixed [PR #2591]

Bareos 24.0.10

We are happy to announce maintenance release 24.0.10

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Bugfixes

• A bug in the dedup backend that could lead to a leaking file-descriptor has been fixed [PR #2550]
• A bug in the Windows installer that broke substitutions in the configuration files has been fixed [PR #2575]
• A previously missing lock in the volume manager has been added [PR #2583]
• A memory leak in the grpc filedaemon plugin was fixed [PR #2592]

Bareos 23.1.7

We are happy to announce maintenance release 23.1.7

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Bugfixes

• A bug in the dedup backend that could lead to a leaking file-descriptor has been fixed [PR #2551]

Bareos 25.0.2

We are happy to announce maintenance release 25.0.2

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• SUSE 16 is now a supported platform [PR #2535]
• Bareos WebUI can now enable encryption when labelling a new tape [PR #2529]
• Indicators library for Barri is now bundled [PR #2516]

Bugfixes

• VMWare plugin will not fail anymore when doing an NVRAM backup from a datacenter that is not in the root folder [PR #2475]
• RPM won't fail when the install log is not writable (e.g. on Atomic / Fedora Silverblue) [PR #2477]
• WebUI now displays the proper icon for macOS [PR #2481]
• A race condition due to spurious wakeups was fixed in the file daemon [PR #2513]

Bareos 24.0.9

We are happy to announce maintenance release 24.0.9

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• Bareos WebUI can now enable encryption when labelling a new tape [PR #2528]

Bugfixes

• a race condition due to spurious wakeups was fixed in the file daemon [PR #2514]

Bareos 23.1.6

We are happy to announce maintenance release 23.1.6

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Bugfixes

• a race condition due to spurious wakeups was fixed in the file daemon [PR #2514]

Bareos 23.1.5

We are happy to announce maintenance release 23.1.5

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• MacOS packages are now built on MacOS 15
• Building on Fedora 43 is now possible

Bugfixes

• Fixed a race-condition in the storage daemon

Bareos 22.1.8

We are happy to announce maintenance release 22.1.8

This is the final release of Bareos 22.

We recommend to upgrade to a newer major release. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• MacOS packages are now built on MacOS 15

Bugfixes

• Python plugins now generate proper backtraces
• a potential crash in the Python plugins was fixed

Bareos 25.0.1

We are happy to announce maintenance release 25.0.1

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• The default timespan for the joblist in Bareos WebUI is now configurable

Bugfixes

• Restoring a Hyper-V machine will no longer fail

Bareos 24.0.8

We are happy to announce maintenance release 24.0.8

We recommend to upgrade to the latest version. In case you like our consultants to help with upgrading or other planning regarding backup strategy or open source in general please contact us.

These release notes provide an overview of the notable changes in this release of Bareos.
For a full list of all changes, see the full changelog.

Changes

• MacOS packages are now built on MacOS 15
• Added Fedora 42 as a supported platform

Bugfixes

• Traymonitor for Windows no longer fails to start
• bareos-contrib-tools now properly depends on the python3 version of python-bareos