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| 4eb61975 | 1 | rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- |
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2 | |
| 3 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | NEW FEATURES | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. | |
| 12 | ||
| 6902ed17 MP |
13 | * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch |
| 14 | sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos | |
| 15 | Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> | |
| 16 | ||
| 4eb61975 | 17 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems |
| 8f694072 MP |
18 | including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also |
| 19 | includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the | |
| 20 | Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH | |
| 21 | portability project, and OpenBSD. | |
| 7d682ffe | 22 | |
| 25ea348b MP |
23 | ENHANCEMENTS |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are | |
| 26 | included or excluded and why. | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more | |
| 29 | details. | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log | |
| 34 | file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is | |
| 35 | open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log | |
| 36 | file to get cleaned out by another process. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing | |
| 39 | options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more | |
| 40 | consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not | |
| 41 | installed on the platform. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit | |
| 44 | files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, | |
| 49 | explain that we do it in a secure way. | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the | |
| 52 | local machine. | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | BUG FIXES: | |
| 55 | ||
| 7d682ffe MP |
56 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. |
| 57 | ||
| 25ea348b MP |
58 | * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked | |
| 63 | to transfer fail to transfer | |
| 64 | ||
| b2f02464 MP |
65 | * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might |
| 66 | overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an | |
| 67 | ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) | |
| 68 | ||
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69 | PLATFORMS: |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) | |
| 0b21c485 MP |
72 | |
| 73 | * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf | |
| 74 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | TESTING: | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a | |
| 79 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba | |
| 80 | build farm. | |
| b2f02464 | 81 |