Two beta releases

Hello,

I have just made two Beta releases. Unfortunately, I mistakenly put the
1.32e-08Dec03 Windows binaries in main win-binaries section rather than
win-binaries-beta. At this point, I won't change it because it would
require a new upload, ...

The 1.33-08Dec03 release is definitely a Beta release in the sense that
version 1.33 is still under very active development.  The main features
of this release are: 
- all features in 1.32e-08Dec03
- update slots (marks any other Volumes in the same pool with the same
  Slot number as "not InChanger"). This permits retaining the Slot on
  Volumes not currently in the magazine.
- update slots=<slot1>,<slot2>,<slot-range>, ...
  where slot1, slot2 are slot numbers you want updated from barcode
  information and slot-range is a slot-number1-slot-number2 (e.g. 3-5).
- update slots[=...] scan
  causes the Storage daemon to read the volume label for each slot 
  listed, or in the absence of a slot list, all slots occupied.
- Automatic synchronization of clocks between DIR and FD so that there
  is no missed files due to timezone differences or shewed clocks.
- A database upgrade is mandatory.
- None of the daemons are compatible with version 1.32x, which means
  you must upgrade all or nothing.
- NOTE! FreeBSD users must add:
   Two EOF = yes
  to each of their tape Device resources in the SD. I forgot to document
  this elsewhere!!!!!

Release 1.32e-08Dec03 was meant to be an official 1.32e release with all
the current patches and a few strategic updates from 1.33. In the end, I
threw in *all* the updates from 1.33 except those that require a
database upgrade or force a daemon incompatibility, or other operating
incompatibility. 

I haven't made 1.32-08Dec03 an official release for three reasons:
- I cannot test it in production because my production system is on
  release 1.33.
- There is still a bit more documentation to do.
- I added more of the 1.33 code than I originally planned, but some of
  it such as the new 10 job history for each daemon is so neat that I
  wanted to put it in your hands (one of the features not yet
  documented).

That said, I think this is a very good release. I have HEAVILY tested it
with my regression testing, and 95% of the code has been running in my
production 1.33 system since 24 November.  I encourage all of you to
test it. Note, all of the daemons should be totally compatible with any
other 1.32x release -- please send feedback.

Once I finish the documentation and get some feedback on how it runs,
I'll "officially" release it.

As most of you know, from tomorrow morning, I will be out for one week
and then a bit slow responding for a week or two. Thanks for all the
well wishes I have received.

Regards, Kern






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