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3 SECURITY FIXES:
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5 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
6 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
7 careful about reading integers from the network.
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499957d9 9 BUG FIXES:
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11 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
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499957d9 13 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
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15 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
16 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
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18 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
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20 ENHANCEMENTS:
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22 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
23 connection.
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25 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
26 support mallinfo().
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28 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
29 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
30 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
31 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
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33 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
34 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)