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Bacula-Web 8.6.3

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Davide Franco
Davide Franco
Official maintainer

I'm pleased to announce that Bacula-Web 8.6.3 has been released.

This is maintenance and bugfix release which include fixes and improvements of PHP version >= 8.0. It also fix a dependency issue with smarty/smarty for users using PHP > 7.4.

For more details, please check Bacula-Web v8.6.3 release notes on GitHub.

Important note​

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

What's coming next ?​

Here's a short list of what you could expect from next releases

  • Next release will deprecate PHP version 7.3, at least PHP 7.4 will be supported (see https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php)
  • Translations will be improved on some pages
  • More filtering options will be avaible on backup/client reports
  • Job files report will be improved and provide a better user experience.
  • Installing and upgrading Bacula-Web will be much easier ;)
  • and even much more ...

Download​

Bacula-Web release 8.6.3 Composer package, and sha signature files are available using the link below

https://github.com/bacula-web/bacula-web/releases/tag/v8.6.3

Install / Upgrade​

Please follow installation or upgrade guides

Bacula-Web documentation is kindly hosted by ReadTheDocs ❤️

Note​

This release have been tested on the plateform listed below

  • FreeBSD 14.0 using PHP 8.0.25
  • Centos 8 Stream using PHP 7.4
  • Centos 8 Stream using PHP 8.0
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye) using PHP 7.4
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye) using PHP 8.1
  • Debian 10 (Buster) using PHP 8.0
  • Fedora 36 using PHP 8.1.12
  • Fedora 37 using PHP 8.1.12
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) using PHP 7.4.3
  • Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy JellyFish) using PHP 8.1

How to get help ?​

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

Please use Github discussions to ask a question or give a feedback

Community​

I'd like to thanks all contributors for your feedbacks, help and precious contributions. Without you, this release wouldn't be possible.

Thanks for using and supporting Bacula-Web project

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