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Bacula Web 9.0.0

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Davide Franco
Davide Franco
Official maintainer

I'm pleased to announce that Bacula-Web 9.0.0 has been released.

This is a major release which includes a lot of improvements and some minor bugfixes.

Highlights​

  • PHP version prior 8.0 are not supported anymore
  • Support of PHP up to version 8.2
  • Replaced Smarty template engine by Twig
  • Bootstrap upgraded
  • Use Slim PHP framework for PSR-15 and routing
  • and more improvements ....

Release notes​

For more details, the release notes is available on GitHub.

What's coming next ?​

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

  • release frequency will be shorter (I'll change how I plan and prepare releases in the future)
  • more improvements with translations
  • and even much more ...

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 ❤️