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1 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003) |
2 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 2.5.6: | |
4 | ||
5 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
6 | ||
7 | * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul | |
8 | Russell, Andrea Barisani) | |
9 | ||
10 | \f | |
11 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003) | |
12 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
13 | Changes since 2.5.5: | |
14 | ||
15 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
16 | ||
17 | * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
18 | ||
19 | * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael | |
20 | Zimmerman) | |
21 | ||
22 | * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the | |
23 | specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) | |
24 | server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such | |
25 | as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) | |
26 | ||
27 | * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the | |
28 | destination field. | |
29 | ||
30 | * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", | |
31 | rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) | |
32 | ||
33 | * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that | |
34 | unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. | |
35 | (J.W. Schultz) | |
36 | ||
37 | * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an | |
38 | rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) | |
39 | ||
40 | * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon | |
41 | Middleton) | |
42 | ||
43 | * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" | |
44 | and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) | |
45 | ||
46 | * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line | |
47 | terminations. (J.W. Schultz) | |
48 | ||
49 | * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. | |
50 | (Dave Dykstra) | |
51 | ||
52 | BUG FIXES: | |
53 | ||
54 | * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John | |
55 | L. Allen, Martin Pool) | |
56 | ||
57 | * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not | |
58 | in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents | |
59 | timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) | |
60 | ||
61 | * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) | |
62 | ||
63 | * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) | |
64 | ||
65 | * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that | |
66 | contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file | |
67 | list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
68 | ||
69 | * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple | |
70 | dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) | |
71 | ||
72 | * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child | |
73 | processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing | |
74 | an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) | |
75 | ||
76 | * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely | |
77 | broken. (Dave Dykstra) | |
78 | ||
79 | * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. | |
80 | (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) | |
81 | ||
82 | * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories | |
83 | when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) | |
84 | ||
85 | * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) | |
86 | ||
87 | INTERNAL: | |
88 | ||
89 | * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin | |
90 | Pool, Nelson Beebe) | |
91 | ||
92 | * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) | |
93 | ||
94 | * More test cases. (Martin Pool) | |
95 | ||
96 | * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) | |
97 | ||
98 | * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. | |
99 | (Jos Backus) | |
100 | ||
101 | * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this | |
102 | means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) | |
103 | ||
104 | \f | |
105 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002) | |
106 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
107 | Changes since 2.5.4: | |
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108 | |
109 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
110 | ||
111 | * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; | |
112 | otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) | |
113 | ||
114 | * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" | |
115 | accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. | |
116 | (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) | |
117 | ||
118 | * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of | |
119 | a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, | |
120 | similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. | |
121 | (Martin Pool) | |
122 | ||
123 | ||
124 | BUG FIXES: | |
125 | ||
126 | * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process | |
127 | slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the | |
128 | current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) | |
129 | ||
130 | * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) | |
131 | ||
132 | * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin | |
133 | Pool.) | |
134 | ||
135 | * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even | |
136 | for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) | |
137 | ||
138 | * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle | |
139 | trailing slashes. | |
140 | <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html> | |
141 | (Martin Pool) | |
142 | ||
143 | * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) | |
144 | ||
145 | \f | |
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146 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) |
147 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
148 | Changes since 2.5.3: | |
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149 | |
150 | BUG FIXES: | |
151 | ||
152 | * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew | |
153 | Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) | |
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155 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
156 | ||
157 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) | |
158 | (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can | |
159 | not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
160 | ||
161 | * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) | |
162 | ||
163 | \f | |
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164 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) |
165 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
166 | Changes since 2.5.2: | |
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167 | |
168 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
169 | ||
170 | * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server | |
171 | process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug | |
172 | #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) | |
173 | ||
174 | BUG FIXES: | |
175 | ||
176 | * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE | |
177 | CAN-2002-0059) | |
178 | ||
276877cf | 179 | * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message |
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180 | unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr |
181 | and resulted in the wrong data being copied. | |
182 | ||
183 | * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of | |
184 | "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. | |
185 | ||
186 | * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc | |
187 | on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". | |
188 | ||
189 | * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client | |
190 | unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) | |
191 | ||
192 | * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing | |
193 | slash. | |
194 | ||
195 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
196 | ||
197 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that | |
198 | rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link | |
199 | against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
276877cf | 200 | |
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201 | * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather |
202 | than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to | |
203 | what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try | |
204 | to parse the output. | |
205 | ||
206 | * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) | |
207 | ||
208 | * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work | |
209 | and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) | |
210 | ||
211 | * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, | |
212 | print an error message. (Colin Walters) | |
213 | ||
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214 | \f |
215 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) | |
216 | Protocol: 26 (changed) | |
217 | Changes since 2.5.1: | |
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218 | |
219 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
220 | ||
221 | * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer | |
222 | <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently | |
223 | careful about reading integers from the network. | |
224 | ||
225 | BUG FIXES: | |
226 | ||
227 | * Fix possible string mangling in log files. | |
228 | ||
229 | * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. | |
230 | ||
231 | * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with | |
232 | 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. | |
233 | ||
234 | * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. | |
235 | ||
236 | * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) | |
237 | ||
238 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
239 | ||
240 | * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh | |
241 | connection. | |
242 | ||
243 | * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that | |
276877cf | 244 | support mallinfo(). |
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245 | |
246 | * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress | |
247 | visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, | |
248 | rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the | |
249 | file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) | |
250 | ||
251 | * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental | |
252 | but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) | |
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254 | * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with |
255 | Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) | |
256 | ||
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257 | \f |
258 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002) | |
259 | Protocol: 25 (unchanged) | |
260 | Changes since 2.5.0: | |
261 | ||
262 | BUG FIXES: | |
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264 | * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul |
265 | Mackerras) | |
266 | ||
267 | * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. | |
268 | (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" | |
269 | Hagino) | |
270 | ||
271 | * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) | |
272 | ||
273 | * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) | |
274 | ||
275 | * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) | |
276 | ||
277 | * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward | |
278 | Welbourne) | |
279 | ||
280 | * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) | |
281 | ||
282 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
283 | ||
284 | * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a | |
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285 | multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik |
286 | Faith) | |
287 | ||
499957d9 | 288 | * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also |
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289 | useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a |
290 | debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) | |
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291 | |
292 | * Clearer error messages for some conditions. | |
293 | ||
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295 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) |
296 | Protocol: 25 (changed) | |
297 | Changes since 2.4.6: | |
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298 | |
299 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
300 | ||
301 | * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. | |
302 | ||
303 | NEW FEATURES | |
304 | ||
305 | * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> | |
306 | ||
307 | * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. | |
308 | ||
309 | * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch | |
310 | sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos | |
311 | Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> | |
312 | ||
313 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems | |
314 | including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also | |
315 | includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the | |
316 | Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH | |
317 | portability project, and OpenBSD. | |
318 | ||
319 | ENHANCEMENTS | |
320 | ||
321 | * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are | |
322 | included or excluded and why. | |
323 | ||
324 | * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more | |
325 | details. | |
326 | ||
327 | * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. | |
328 | ||
329 | * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log | |
330 | file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is | |
331 | open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log | |
332 | file to get cleaned out by another process. | |
333 | ||
334 | * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing | |
335 | options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more | |
336 | consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not | |
337 | installed on the platform. | |
338 | ||
339 | * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit | |
340 | files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. | |
341 | ||
342 | * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. | |
343 | ||
344 | * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, | |
345 | explain that we do it in a secure way. | |
346 | ||
347 | * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the | |
348 | local machine. | |
349 | ||
350 | BUG FIXES: | |
351 | ||
352 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. | |
353 | ||
354 | * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. | |
355 | ||
356 | * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. | |
357 | ||
358 | * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked | |
276877cf | 359 | to transfer fail to transfer. |
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360 | |
361 | * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might | |
362 | overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an | |
363 | ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) | |
364 | ||
365 | PLATFORMS: | |
366 | ||
367 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) | |
368 | ||
369 | * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf | |
276877cf | 370 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. |
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371 | |
372 | * Platforms thought to work in this release: | |
373 | ||
374 | Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc | |
375 | Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc | |
376 | Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc | |
377 | FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc | |
378 | FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc | |
379 | FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc | |
380 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc | |
381 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc | |
382 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc | |
383 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc | |
384 | Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc | |
385 | NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc | |
386 | NetBSD Current i386 cc | |
387 | OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc | |
388 | OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc | |
389 | OpenBSD Current i386 cc | |
390 | RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc | |
391 | RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ | |
392 | RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc | |
393 | RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc | |
394 | Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) | |
395 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc | |
396 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc | |
397 | Solaris 8 i386 gcc | |
398 | SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 | |
399 | SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 | |
400 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc | |
401 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc | |
402 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc | |
403 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc | |
404 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc | |
405 | ||
406 | TESTING: | |
407 | ||
408 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a | |
409 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba | |
410 | build farm. | |
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411 | \f |
412 | Partial Protocol History | |
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413 | RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT PROTOCOL |
414 | 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40) | |
415 | 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26 | |
416 | 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26 | |
417 | 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26 | |
418 | 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26 | |
419 | 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26 | |
420 | 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26 | |
421 | 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25 | |
422 | 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25 | |
423 | 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24 | |
424 | 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24 | |
425 | 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24 | |
426 | 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24 | |
427 | 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24 | |
428 | 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24 | |
429 | 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23 | |
430 | 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22 | |
431 | 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21 | |
432 | 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20 | |
433 | 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20 | |
434 | 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19 | |
435 | 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19 | |
436 | 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19 | |
437 | 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19 | |
438 | 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19 | |
439 | 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19 | |
440 | 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19 | |
441 | 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19 | |
442 | 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18 | |
443 | 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18 | |
444 | 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18 | |
445 | 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17 | |
446 | 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17 | |
447 | 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17 | |
448 | 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17 | |
449 | 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17 | |
450 | 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17 | |
451 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17 | |
452 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30) | |
453 | 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20) | |
454 | ||
455 | * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS. |