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Bacula Web 8.3.0

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Davide Franco
Davide Franco
Official maintainer

I am pleased to announce that Bacula-Web 8.3.0 has been released.

This is a minor feature and bug fix release.

Highlight​

  • Dashboard
    • Biggest backup job widget is fixed (#0262)
    • Clicking on pie charts now leads to the related reports page (#0255)
  • Backup job report
    • You can now list folders and files from a backup job (#0289)
  • Job report
    • Fixed PHP warning (division by zero) with canceled jobs (#0290)
  • Translations
    • Fixed language translations (#0291)
  • Documentation
    • Installation page index has bee reviewed and shows now the whole table of content
    • Updated documentation for Fedora (#0293)
    • Small fixes and improvements
  • Development
    • Usual PHP code improvements and fixes

Fixed bugs​

  • 0000262 [bug-php] Biggest jobs size is total job size
  • 0000290 [bug-php] Division by zero with backup job compression
  • 0000291 [bug] Language translations doesn't work anymore
  • 0000293 [documentation] Update documentation for Fedora

New features​

  • 0000255 [feature] Dashboard: Clicking on numbers and graphs should display report
  • 0000289 [feature] Implement file listing within a job

This release contain 4 bug fixes and 2 new features

Release notes​

For further details, please read the Bacula-Web 8.3.0 release notes

Tested platforms​

This release has been tested under Debian 8 (Jessie), Debian 9 (Stretch) and Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)

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 ❤️