Bacula Web 8.3.0

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)

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Change on Web server public folder

Kind reminder, since release v8.6.0, Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd document root folder muse be set as below

WEB_SERVER_ROOT/bacula-web/public

In the example above, you can replace WEB_SERVER_ROOT by /var/www/html (adapt to your environment

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How to install / upgrade ?

The installation or upgrade instructions are available in the official documentation.

Docker images

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

tip

Docker images are available only since release v8.7.0.

How to get help ?

They are several options to get help

• use GitHub discussions to ask a question or give a feedback
• read the FAQ

Found a bug, or need a new feature ?

You can submit a new bug report or feature request on the GitHub project (please read the bug report guideline)

How to contribute ?

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

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

Security notice

warning

Some versions of Bacula-Web have CVEs due to identified security vulnerabilities, detailed in the security page.

I strongly encourage anyone using Bacula-Web to continue using the latest stable releases, which include bug fixes and security patches.

Thanks to the community

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

Thanks for using and supporting the Bacula-Web project ❤️