New release Bacularis 2.8.0

[ganiuszka]

Hello Everybody,

We are glad to let you know that we released a new Bacularis version 2.8.0. It is a new feature and bug fix release. We introduced a couple of improvements for using backup file list function like finding the largest or the newest files in backup. Besides that we added a new deployment OS profiles for Ubuntu 24.04 Noble and Fedora 40 to enable easily deploying Bacularis and Bacula components to remote hosts with these systems.

On the bug fixes side, we fixed bugs reported by the Community.

New functions in 2.8.0:

• Top 10 backup files function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1pDIwZnD0

Main changes

Bacularis Web

• Add control to display top 10 largest/smallest/recent/oldest backup files
• Add sorting capability by file, size and mtime columns in backup file list
• Add deployment OS profile for Fedora 40
• Add deployment OS profile for Ubuntu 24.04 Noble
• Change default job age for job size and files graph
• Fix validation for data view name
• Fix network test support for Bacula 9.6
• Fix displaying text in running jobs bar on Firefox

Bacularis API

• Add order_by and order_type parameters to /jobs/{jobid}/files endpoint

Bacularis Common

• Add commented software compression lines to web server configs
• Add custom sorting method by given property

Useful links:
Release announcement: https://bacularis.app/news/80/36/New-release-Bacularis-2.8.0
Documentation: https://bacularis.app/doc
Online demo: https://demo.bacularis.app

As always binary packages 2.8.0 for popular Linux distributions are available already in the package repositories. Docker container images 2.8.0 are available in the Docker Hub repositories.

Happy using.

On behalf of the Bacularis Team
Marcin Haba (gani)