New release Bacularis 4.0.0

[ganiuszka]

Hello Everybody,

We are proud to announce a new Bacularis 4.0.0. This is a new major release. It provides in the install wizard a new capability to install and configure complete Bacula environment to work with Bacularis. It means that to install Bacularis first time having the Bacula environment is no longer required. This function can be specially useful for new users that don't know Bacula and they would like to try Bacula in easy way. At start Bacularis wizard supports nineteen various Linux distributions and versions. This move is a first step in organized by the Bacularis Project a global action named "Bacula for Everybody!" which the main goal is to popularize using Bacula. More information about it you can find here:

https://bacularis.app/news/88/36/Action-Bacula-for-Everybody

In addition, we have added some new functions and improvements such as bulk run job action in the job list, the repository auth configuration on deployment page or a new deployment function to deploy the catalog database. We updated the SELinux module as well. At the end we fixed some bugs reported by the Community.

Recreating assets cache

One of the bugs is about default wrong permissions set in the Bacularis assets cache directory. We recommend to clear the assets directory by removing content of this directory (with keeping this directory empty). This cache will be re-created automatically with correct permissions.

For installation using binary packages the assets directory is in this path:

/var/cache/bacularis

For manual installation the assets directory is here:

[project_dir]/htdocs/assets

The bug report is here:
bacularis/bacularis-web#6

New PostgreSQL server in the Docker container images

There has been updated to version 16 the PostgreSQL database server in the bacularis-standalone and bacularis-api-dir container images. Users using thsese images after updating will need to manually do the database data format upgrade between major PostgreSQL versions 15 -> 16 by pg_upgrade.

Below you can find full list of new changes in Bacularis 4.0.0:

Main changes

Bacularis Web

• Add repository auth configuration on deployment page
• Add Bacula catalog deployment capability and support in OS profiles
• Add bulk run job action to job list
• Add repo auth module
• Fix unassign removed API hosts from users
• Fix missing end-of-line character in user file provided on deploying
• Fix typo error in web config wizard
• Update Polish translations

Bacularis API

• Add to initial wizard capability to install and configure complete Bacula environment to use with Bacularis
• Initial wizard visual improvements
• Make /jobs/run endpoint job parameters as optional
• Update API documentation

Bacularis Common

• Add timeout directives to web server config files
• Add new system modules
• Update SELinux module
• Improve set permission script
• Fix missing end-of-line character in last line of user config file
• Fix wrong dir/file permissions in cache directory
• Fix default parameter value

The release announcement: https://bacularis.app/news/89/36/New-release-Bacularis-4.0.0

Have good installations and upgrades.

On behalf of the Bacularis Team
Marcin Haba (gani)