Bacula-Web 8.2.0

I'm really pleased to announce that Bacula-Web 8.2.0 has been released.

This is a minor feature and bug fix release.

Important note

Please note that next Bacula-Web release will remove support for PHP 5.6. As stated on PHP.net website, PHP version 5.6 and prior has run out of support. So for the sake of security, I encourage everyone to upgrade PHP at least to version 7.1.

Highlight

• General

  • Updated .htaccess adding Options +FollowSymLinks
  • Debug mode is now available (see #0271)
  • Error message arise if user auth backend is not ready and user authentication is enabled (see #0274)

• Security

  • Smarty 3.x security issue - CVE-2018-13982 (see #0276) Bacula-Web is not impacted by this security issue
  • User authentication can now be disabled (see #0239)

• Documentation

  • Fixed instructions to download tar.gz archive
  • Documentation have been improved with a good amount of fixes and improvements
  • Updated Composer manual installation (redirect to Composer.org web site)
  • Upgrade paragraph has been fixed (see #0275)
  • Add missing package for RHEL/Centos 6 users (see #0283)

• Development

  • Upgraded symfony/process to version 3.4.19
  • Upgraded smarty and Smarty-Gettext to components
  • Huge amount of PHP code improvements and fixes

Fixed bugs

• 0000254 [bug-php] Warnings with PHP 7.0.27
• 0000273 [documentation] Instructions to download archive not accurate
• 0000274 [bug-design] Warn users if authentication back-end db does not exist
• 0000275 [documentation] Fix incomplete documentation for upgrade
• 0000276 [security-issue] Smarty - Fix CVE-2018-13982
• 0000282 [documentation] Update outdated Composer installation
• 0000283 [documentation] Update PHP package instructions for RHEL/Centos 6 users

New feature(s)

• 0000239 [feature] Disable user authentication
• 0000271 [feature] Add debug mode on application level

This release fix 7 bugs and add 2 new features

Release notes

For further details, please read the Bacula-Web 8.2.0 release notes

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More infos

Web server root has changed since v8.6.0

As of release v8.6.0, your web server root directory must point to the public directory (available at the root)

For example

/var/www/hmlt/bacula-web/public

If you are using a different location than /var/www/html/bacula-web, please adjust based on your web server configuration.

security vulnerabilities

Older versions of Bacula-Web have known security vulnerabilities. For the safest and most reliable experience, use the latest stable version with all recent fixes and improvements.

Docker images

Latest Bacula-Web Docker images (for platform linux/amd64 and linux/arm64) are available at Docker Hub

Bacula-Web official Docker images are available since release v8.7.0.

How to ?

Install / upgrade

Installation or upgrade instructions are available in the official documentation.

Get help

Follow this link for further information.

Report a bug or ask for a new feature

You can submit a new bug report or feature request on the GitHub project

Contribute to the project ?

Bacula-Web is an open source project, mostly maintained in my spare time with the great help of community users.

If you're willing to contribute to the project, have a look at the contribution guide

Thanks to the community

I thank all contributors for your feedback, help, and contributions. Without you, this release wouldn't be possible.

Thanks for using and supporting the Bacula-Web project ❤️