Hello Everybody,

We are glad to announce a new Bacularis version 4.6.0. This is a new feature and bug fix release. It provides many new functions and improvements. We added an interface to install, renew and uninstall SSL certificates. The renewing certificate process can be run by system scheduler (cron, systemd timer...) or triggered manually on demand on the web interface.

We prepared support for creating two certificate types: self-signed certificates created locally and Let's Encrypt certificates obtained from external CA. Certificates are created, installed, and automatically configured in the web server configuration. The Let's Encrypt certificates are acquired using ACME protocol with HTTP-01 challenge.

Besides that we added a new web server settings function with network options. Currently there is possible to change on the web interface the Bacularis web server port.

In the Bacularis health self-test suite we added two new tests. They are to check bconsole and catalog access time. They can help diagnosing performance issues.

New users installing Bacula through the Bacularis initial wizard will be able to test credentials before running the installation because we added a button to perform this type of test.

At the end we did many other smaller improvements, specially in the deployment functions and authentication modules.

We prepared two video guides that present the new SSL certificate functions:

1. Self-signed certificates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRTx3p6wAg

2. Let's Encrypt certificates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4s_Q4QoJC0

Release announcement

https://bacularis.app/news/105/36/New-release-Bacularis-4.6.0

We wish you good installations and upgrades.

On behalf of the Bacularis Team
Marcin Haba (gani)