Bacula Status Report 9 December 2020

Hello,

I would like to discuss the following subjects:

1. Bacula Release Status

2. Next Major Bacula Version

3. New Bacula Project Manager

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1. Bacula Release Status
The latest Bacula version 9.6.7 will be released shortly.  This
is a bug fix release that fixes a number of bugs especially the
MySQL/MariaDB schema problems.  It also has a MySQL/MariaDB retry
on a write failure.

2. Next Major Bacula Version
The next Major Bacula Version (release 11.0.0) will be made within
a week or so. Although this release has been extensively tested, at
this time until we get feedback from community testers, we consider
it a Beta version.

Due to increasing divergences of the Bacula Systems Enterprise and the
Community versions, Eric Bollengier undertook a rather big project to make a
"universal Bacula core code" version that includes both the Enterprise and
Community code in a way that we can easily switch between the two 
versions, as
well as much more easily backport new features to and from the Community
version.  The first version that contains this "universal Bacula code" is
version 11.0.0.

Some of the new features in this code are:
- New catalog format giving improved performance
- Automatic TLS PSK encrypted communications
- Support for Client behind NAT
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Plugin
- Built-in Client scheduler
- Global Director Autoprune directive
- Events/Audit features
- New Baculum features
- Ask to mount/create volume when disk space is low
- Simplification of the Windows FileSet with File=/
- Security enhancements for Restricted Consoles

The following version to be released around June 2021 will contain:
- Kubernetes Plugin
- Generic Cloud Plugin

So as you see many new things are coming, and they will keep coming because
Bacula Systems is creating lots of new code and backporting it.

3. New Bacula Project Manager
In January 2021, it will be 21 years that I (Kern) have worked on the Bacula
project. Now it is time to leave the work to younger and enthusiastic
new people. So effective with Bacula release 11.0.0, Eric Bollengier
will replace me as the Bacula Project Manager. Eric has been working
on Bacula since 2005 and with Bacula Systems since its creation in
2008.  He is currently the most experienced and knowledgeable Bacula
architect and programmer.

Even though I am giving the project management
responsibility to Eric, I will be around for at least a year to help
out where and when I can.

I must say that I am very proud to have worked with so many Bacula
contributors and users, who are very friendly, kind, and knowledgeable.
Thank you all for helping by using Bacula or contributing to it.

Thanks for using Bacula -- be happy and stay safe.

Kern



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