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1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004) |
2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 2.6.1: | |
4 | ||
5 | BUG FIXES: | |
6 | ||
7 | - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative | |
8 | is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were | |
9 | affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list | |
10 | item when requesting changes from the sender. | |
11 | ||
12 | - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to | |
13 | better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system. | |
14 | ||
15 | - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages | |
16 | rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix | |
17 | will be sought in the future.) | |
18 | ||
19 | - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid | |
20 | code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.) | |
21 | ||
22 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
23 | ||
24 | - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used | |
25 | and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the | |
26 | broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an | |
27 | NFS build-dir. | |
28 | ||
29 | - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define | |
30 | AI_NUMERICHOST. | |
31 | ||
32 | - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that | |
33 | don't support __attribute__. | |
34 | ||
35 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
36 | ||
37 | - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1. | |
38 | ||
39 | - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir. | |
40 | ||
41 | \f | |
42 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004) | |
43 | Protocol: 28 (changed) | |
44 | Changes since 2.6.0: | |
45 | ||
46 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
47 | ||
48 | - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when | |
49 | chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync | |
50 | daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the | |
51 | user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody". | |
52 | ||
53 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
54 | ||
55 | - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket, | |
56 | and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details). | |
57 | ||
58 | - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a | |
59 | "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. | |
60 | (Bardur Arantsson) | |
61 | ||
62 | - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer | |
63 | we are, including both a count of files transferred and a | |
64 | percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also | |
65 | shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time | |
66 | values. | |
67 | ||
68 | - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis- | |
69 | understood features more clearly. | |
70 | ||
71 | BUG FIXES: | |
72 | ||
73 | - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or | |
74 | --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the | |
75 | referent file is on a different filesystem. | |
76 | ||
77 | - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when | |
78 | (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was | |
79 | specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on | |
80 | the destination and -g was specified. | |
81 | ||
82 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause | |
83 | the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get | |
84 | overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). | |
85 | ||
86 | - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of | |
87 | each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer | |
88 | with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file | |
89 | than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered | |
90 | over the wire for that file. | |
91 | ||
92 | - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines. | |
93 | (Jay Fenlason) | |
94 | ||
95 | - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a | |
96 | per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one | |
97 | directory (not all following directories too). The items are also | |
98 | now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing. | |
99 | ||
100 | - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part | |
101 | can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to | |
102 | find the HOST, not the first). | |
103 | ||
104 | - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users: | |
105 | (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name | |
106 | for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in | |
107 | that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer | |
108 | attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission | |
109 | to set. | |
110 | ||
111 | - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. | |
112 | ||
113 | - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount- | |
114 | point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that | |
115 | it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount- | |
116 | point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the | |
117 | original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be | |
118 | ignoring. | |
119 | ||
120 | - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename | |
121 | when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names | |
122 | that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). | |
123 | ||
124 | - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with | |
125 | or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as | |
126 | --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative | |
127 | one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless. | |
128 | Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the | |
129 | module's base dir when chroot is not enabled. | |
130 | ||
131 | - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync | |
132 | versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without | |
133 | telling us that --backup-dir was specified. | |
134 | ||
135 | - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process | |
136 | now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems | |
137 | that have a length field in their socket structs. | |
138 | ||
139 | - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending | |
140 | files to an rsync daemon. | |
141 | ||
142 | INTERNAL: | |
143 | ||
144 | - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large | |
145 | speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) | |
146 | ||
147 | - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some | |
148 | significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets. | |
149 | ||
150 | - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent. | |
151 | ||
152 | - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. | |
153 | (J.W. Schultz) | |
154 | ||
155 | - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up | |
156 | the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) | |
157 | ||
158 | - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the | |
159 | group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This | |
160 | prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new | |
161 | hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically | |
162 | earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the | |
163 | receiving side. | |
164 | ||
165 | - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released | |
166 | 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25 | |
167 | (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, | |
168 | severally) | |
169 | ||
170 | - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). | |
171 | ||
172 | - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). | |
173 | ||
174 | - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. | |
175 | ||
176 | - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). | |
177 | ||
178 | - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list | |
179 | during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory | |
180 | bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). | |
181 | Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, | |
182 | resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving | |
183 | side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions | |
184 | are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way | |
185 | for the entire transfer. | |
186 | ||
187 | - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation | |
188 | pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits | |
189 | freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) | |
190 | ||
191 | - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes | |
192 | (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and | |
193 | the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the | |
194 | "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from | |
195 | the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator | |
196 | over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and | |
197 | verbose --stats output). | |
198 | ||
199 | - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a | |
200 | little more optimized. | |
201 | ||
202 | - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as | |
203 | separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28). | |
204 | Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit | |
205 | number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more | |
206 | compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the | |
207 | connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the | |
208 | binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in | |
209 | fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is | |
210 | now available. | |
211 | ||
212 | - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made | |
213 | things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient. | |
214 | ||
215 | - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now | |
216 | handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the | |
217 | wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the | |
218 | batch code is still considered to be experimental.) | |
219 | ||
220 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
221 | ||
222 | - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to | |
223 | override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. | |
224 | ||
225 | - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". | |
226 | ||
227 | - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with | |
228 | sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). | |
229 | ||
230 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
231 | ||
232 | - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. | |
233 | ||
234 | - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones | |
235 | that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. | |
236 | ||
237 | \f | |
0f1aa0d3 WD |
238 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) |
239 | Protocol: 27 (changed) | |
240 | Changes since 2.5.7: | |
241 | ||
242 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
243 | ||
244 | * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to | |
245 | change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". | |
246 | ||
247 | * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. | |
248 | Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the | |
249 | files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) | |
250 | ||
251 | * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version | |
252 | 27. (J.W. Schultz) | |
253 | ||
254 | * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The | |
255 | per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm | |
256 | provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync | |
257 | algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 | |
258 | checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) | |
259 | ||
260 | * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary | |
261 | unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. | |
262 | ||
263 | * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the | |
264 | sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the | |
265 | file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. | |
266 | ||
267 | * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. | |
268 | ||
269 | BUG FIXES: | |
270 | ||
271 | * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. | |
272 | This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the | |
273 | matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not | |
274 | cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like | |
275 | what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) | |
276 | ||
277 | - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. | |
278 | For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. | |
279 | [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the | |
280 | "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all | |
281 | versions.] | |
282 | ||
283 | - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo | |
284 | does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] | |
285 | ||
286 | - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of | |
287 | the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, | |
288 | just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" | |
289 | to get the old behavior in all versions.] | |
290 | ||
291 | - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched | |
292 | against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if | |
293 | there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" | |
294 | would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as | |
295 | "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the | |
296 | old behavior in all versions.] | |
297 | ||
298 | * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now | |
299 | properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the | |
300 | user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) | |
301 | ||
302 | * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the | |
303 | block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. | |
304 | Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. | |
305 | (Craig Barratt) | |
306 | ||
307 | * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in | |
308 | mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit | |
309 | counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for | |
310 | file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) | |
311 | ||
312 | * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and | |
313 | multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. | |
314 | (Wayne Davison) | |
315 | ||
316 | * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. | |
317 | ||
318 | * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. | |
319 | ||
320 | * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more | |
321 | consistent manner. | |
322 | ||
323 | * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) | |
324 | ||
325 | * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log | |
326 | when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" | |
327 | and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. | |
328 | ||
329 | * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. | |
330 | ||
331 | * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file | |
332 | that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and | |
333 | Wayne Davison) | |
334 | ||
335 | * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files | |
336 | to not get backed up. | |
337 | ||
338 | * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode | |
339 | 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the | |
340 | backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). | |
341 | ||
342 | * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. | |
343 | ||
344 | * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly | |
345 | what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) | |
346 | ||
347 | * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when | |
348 | using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) | |
349 | ||
350 | * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing | |
351 | special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or | |
352 | --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the | |
353 | same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a | |
354 | regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) | |
355 | ||
356 | * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and | |
357 | readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated | |
358 | files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) | |
359 | ||
360 | * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings | |
361 | if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. | |
362 | ||
363 | INTERNAL: | |
364 | ||
365 | * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped | |
366 | supporting. (J.W. Schultz) | |
367 | ||
368 | * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) | |
369 | ||
370 | * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new | |
371 | defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) | |
372 | ||
373 | * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a | |
374 | lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. | |
375 | Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value | |
376 | we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). | |
377 | (Wayne Davison) | |
378 | ||
379 | \f | |
276877cf WD |
380 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003) |
381 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
382 | Changes since 2.5.6: | |
383 | ||
384 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
385 | ||
386 | * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul | |
387 | Russell, Andrea Barisani) | |
388 | ||
389 | \f | |
390 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003) | |
391 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
392 | Changes since 2.5.5: | |
393 | ||
394 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
395 | ||
396 | * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
397 | ||
398 | * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael | |
399 | Zimmerman) | |
400 | ||
401 | * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the | |
402 | specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) | |
403 | server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such | |
404 | as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) | |
405 | ||
406 | * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the | |
407 | destination field. | |
408 | ||
409 | * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", | |
410 | rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) | |
411 | ||
412 | * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that | |
413 | unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. | |
414 | (J.W. Schultz) | |
415 | ||
416 | * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an | |
417 | rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) | |
418 | ||
419 | * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon | |
420 | Middleton) | |
421 | ||
422 | * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" | |
423 | and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) | |
424 | ||
425 | * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line | |
426 | terminations. (J.W. Schultz) | |
427 | ||
428 | * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. | |
429 | (Dave Dykstra) | |
430 | ||
431 | BUG FIXES: | |
432 | ||
433 | * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John | |
434 | L. Allen, Martin Pool) | |
435 | ||
436 | * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not | |
437 | in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents | |
438 | timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) | |
439 | ||
440 | * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) | |
441 | ||
442 | * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) | |
443 | ||
444 | * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that | |
445 | contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file | |
446 | list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
447 | ||
448 | * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple | |
449 | dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) | |
450 | ||
451 | * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child | |
452 | processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing | |
453 | an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) | |
454 | ||
455 | * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely | |
456 | broken. (Dave Dykstra) | |
457 | ||
458 | * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. | |
459 | (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) | |
460 | ||
461 | * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories | |
462 | when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) | |
463 | ||
464 | * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) | |
465 | ||
466 | INTERNAL: | |
467 | ||
468 | * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin | |
469 | Pool, Nelson Beebe) | |
470 | ||
471 | * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) | |
472 | ||
473 | * More test cases. (Martin Pool) | |
474 | ||
475 | * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) | |
476 | ||
477 | * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. | |
478 | (Jos Backus) | |
479 | ||
480 | * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this | |
481 | means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) | |
482 | ||
483 | \f | |
484 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002) | |
485 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
486 | Changes since 2.5.4: | |
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487 | |
488 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
489 | ||
490 | * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; | |
491 | otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) | |
492 | ||
493 | * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" | |
494 | accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. | |
495 | (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) | |
496 | ||
497 | * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of | |
498 | a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, | |
499 | similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. | |
500 | (Martin Pool) | |
501 | ||
502 | ||
503 | BUG FIXES: | |
504 | ||
505 | * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process | |
506 | slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the | |
507 | current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) | |
508 | ||
509 | * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) | |
510 | ||
511 | * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin | |
512 | Pool.) | |
513 | ||
514 | * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even | |
515 | for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) | |
516 | ||
517 | * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle | |
518 | trailing slashes. | |
519 | <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html> | |
520 | (Martin Pool) | |
521 | ||
522 | * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) | |
523 | ||
524 | \f | |
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525 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) |
526 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
527 | Changes since 2.5.3: | |
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528 | |
529 | BUG FIXES: | |
530 | ||
531 | * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew | |
532 | Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) | |
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534 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
535 | ||
536 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) | |
537 | (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can | |
538 | not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
539 | ||
540 | * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) | |
541 | ||
542 | \f | |
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543 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) |
544 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
545 | Changes since 2.5.2: | |
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546 | |
547 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
548 | ||
549 | * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server | |
550 | process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug | |
551 | #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) | |
552 | ||
553 | BUG FIXES: | |
554 | ||
555 | * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE | |
556 | CAN-2002-0059) | |
557 | ||
276877cf | 558 | * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message |
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559 | unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr |
560 | and resulted in the wrong data being copied. | |
561 | ||
562 | * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of | |
563 | "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. | |
564 | ||
565 | * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc | |
566 | on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". | |
567 | ||
568 | * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client | |
569 | unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) | |
570 | ||
571 | * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing | |
572 | slash. | |
573 | ||
574 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
575 | ||
576 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that | |
577 | rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link | |
578 | against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
276877cf | 579 | |
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580 | * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather |
581 | than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to | |
582 | what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try | |
583 | to parse the output. | |
584 | ||
585 | * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) | |
586 | ||
587 | * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work | |
588 | and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) | |
589 | ||
590 | * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, | |
591 | print an error message. (Colin Walters) | |
592 | ||
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593 | \f |
594 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) | |
595 | Protocol: 26 (changed) | |
596 | Changes since 2.5.1: | |
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597 | |
598 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
599 | ||
600 | * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer | |
601 | <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently | |
602 | careful about reading integers from the network. | |
603 | ||
604 | BUG FIXES: | |
605 | ||
606 | * Fix possible string mangling in log files. | |
607 | ||
608 | * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. | |
609 | ||
610 | * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with | |
611 | 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. | |
612 | ||
613 | * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. | |
614 | ||
615 | * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) | |
616 | ||
617 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
618 | ||
619 | * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh | |
620 | connection. | |
621 | ||
622 | * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that | |
276877cf | 623 | support mallinfo(). |
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624 | |
625 | * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress | |
626 | visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, | |
627 | rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the | |
628 | file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) | |
629 | ||
630 | * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental | |
631 | but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) | |
276877cf | 632 | |
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633 | * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with |
634 | Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) | |
635 | ||
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636 | \f |
637 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002) | |
638 | Protocol: 25 (unchanged) | |
639 | Changes since 2.5.0: | |
640 | ||
641 | BUG FIXES: | |
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643 | * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul |
644 | Mackerras) | |
645 | ||
646 | * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. | |
647 | (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" | |
648 | Hagino) | |
649 | ||
650 | * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) | |
651 | ||
652 | * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) | |
653 | ||
654 | * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) | |
655 | ||
656 | * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward | |
657 | Welbourne) | |
658 | ||
659 | * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) | |
660 | ||
661 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
662 | ||
663 | * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a | |
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664 | multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik |
665 | Faith) | |
666 | ||
499957d9 | 667 | * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also |
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668 | useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a |
669 | debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) | |
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670 | |
671 | * Clearer error messages for some conditions. | |
672 | ||
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674 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) |
675 | Protocol: 25 (changed) | |
676 | Changes since 2.4.6: | |
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677 | |
678 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
679 | ||
680 | * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. | |
681 | ||
682 | NEW FEATURES | |
683 | ||
684 | * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> | |
685 | ||
686 | * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. | |
687 | ||
688 | * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch | |
689 | sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos | |
690 | Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> | |
691 | ||
692 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems | |
693 | including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also | |
694 | includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the | |
695 | Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH | |
696 | portability project, and OpenBSD. | |
697 | ||
698 | ENHANCEMENTS | |
699 | ||
700 | * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are | |
701 | included or excluded and why. | |
702 | ||
703 | * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more | |
704 | details. | |
705 | ||
706 | * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. | |
707 | ||
708 | * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log | |
709 | file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is | |
710 | open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log | |
711 | file to get cleaned out by another process. | |
712 | ||
713 | * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing | |
714 | options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more | |
715 | consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not | |
716 | installed on the platform. | |
717 | ||
718 | * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit | |
719 | files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. | |
720 | ||
721 | * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. | |
722 | ||
723 | * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, | |
724 | explain that we do it in a secure way. | |
725 | ||
726 | * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the | |
727 | local machine. | |
728 | ||
729 | BUG FIXES: | |
730 | ||
731 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. | |
732 | ||
733 | * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. | |
734 | ||
735 | * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. | |
736 | ||
737 | * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked | |
276877cf | 738 | to transfer fail to transfer. |
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739 | |
740 | * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might | |
741 | overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an | |
742 | ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) | |
743 | ||
744 | PLATFORMS: | |
745 | ||
746 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) | |
747 | ||
748 | * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf | |
276877cf | 749 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. |
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750 | |
751 | * Platforms thought to work in this release: | |
752 | ||
753 | Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc | |
754 | Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc | |
755 | Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc | |
756 | FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc | |
757 | FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc | |
758 | FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc | |
759 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc | |
760 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc | |
761 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc | |
762 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc | |
763 | Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc | |
764 | NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc | |
765 | NetBSD Current i386 cc | |
766 | OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc | |
767 | OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc | |
768 | OpenBSD Current i386 cc | |
769 | RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc | |
770 | RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ | |
771 | RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc | |
772 | RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc | |
773 | Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) | |
774 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc | |
775 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc | |
776 | Solaris 8 i386 gcc | |
777 | SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 | |
778 | SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 | |
779 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc | |
780 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc | |
781 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc | |
782 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc | |
783 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc | |
784 | ||
785 | TESTING: | |
786 | ||
787 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a | |
788 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba | |
789 | build farm. | |
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790 | \f |
791 | Partial Protocol History | |
276877cf | 792 | RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT PROTOCOL |
6fcedb7d | 793 | 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28 |
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794 | 30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28 |
795 | 26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28 | |
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796 | 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40) |
797 | 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26 | |
798 | 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26 | |
799 | 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26 | |
800 | 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26 | |
801 | 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26 | |
802 | 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26 | |
803 | 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25 | |
804 | 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25 | |
805 | 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24 | |
806 | 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24 | |
807 | 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24 | |
808 | 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24 | |
809 | 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24 | |
810 | 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24 | |
811 | 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23 | |
812 | 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22 | |
813 | 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21 | |
814 | 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20 | |
815 | 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20 | |
816 | 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19 | |
817 | 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19 | |
818 | 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19 | |
819 | 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19 | |
820 | 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19 | |
821 | 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19 | |
822 | 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19 | |
823 | 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19 | |
824 | 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18 | |
825 | 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18 | |
826 | 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18 | |
827 | 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17 | |
828 | 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17 | |
829 | 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17 | |
830 | 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17 | |
831 | 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17 | |
832 | 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17 | |
833 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17 | |
834 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30) | |
835 | 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20) | |
836 | ||
837 | * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS. |