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NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.6:

  SECURITY FIXES:

    * Fix buffer handling bugs.  (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
      Russell, Andrea Barisani)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.5:

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * The --delete-after option now implies --delete.  (Wayne Davison)

    * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir.  (Michael
      Zimmerman)

    * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
      specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
      server-daemon.  This allows someone to use daemon features, such
      as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh.  (JD Paul)

    * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
      destination field.

    * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
      rsync will read from standard input.  (J.W. Schultz)

    * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
      unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
      (J.W. Schultz)

    * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
      rsync run.  (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)

    * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion.  (Jon
      Middleton)

    * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
      and "hosts deny" fields.  (Hideaki Yoshifuji)

    * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
      terminations.  (J.W. Schultz)

    * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
      (Dave Dykstra)

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3.  (John
      L. Allen, Martin Pool)

    * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
      in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand.  This prevents
      timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)

    * Fix compilation on Tru64.  (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)

    * Better handling of some client-server errors.  (Martin Pool)

    * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
      contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
      list) and using --delete.  (Wayne Davison)

    * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
      dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)

    * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
      processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
      an error.  (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)

    * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
      broken.  (Dave Dykstra)

    * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
      (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)

    * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
      when --relative-paths/-R is set.  (Craig Barratt)

    * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)

  INTERNAL:

    * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.  (Martin
      Pool, Nelson Beebe)

    * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)

    * More test cases.  (Martin Pool)

    * Some test-case fixes.  (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)

    * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
      (Jos Backus)

    * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
      means rsync should build on more platforms.  (Paul Green)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.4:

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
      otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)

    * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
      accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
      (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)

    * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
      a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
      similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
      (Martin Pool)


  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
      slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
      current user.  Yes, really!  (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)

    * Fix test suite on Solaris.  (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)

    * Fix minor memory leak in socket code.  (Dave Dykstra, Martin
      Pool.)

    * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
      for remote connections.  (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)

    * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
      trailing slashes.
      <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
      (Martin Pool)

    * Improved network error handling.  (Greg A. Woods)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.3:

  BUG FIXES:

    * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug.  (Martin Pool, Andrew
      Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4.  (Jos Backus)
      (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
      not just link against a system library.  See zlib/README.rsync)

    * Additional test cases for --compress.  (Martin Pool)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.2:

  SECURITY FIXES:

    * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
      process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
      #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix zlib double-free bug.  (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
      CAN-2002-0059)

    * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
	unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
      and resulted in the wrong data being copied.

    * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
      "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.

    * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
      on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".

    * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
      unexpectedly disconnects.  (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)

    * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
      slash.

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3.  (Note that
      rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
      against a system library.  See zlib/README.rsync)

    * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
      than -v as in 2.5.2.  Output from plain -v is more similar to
      what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
      to parse the output.

    * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)

    * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
      and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)

    * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
      print an error message.  (Colin Walters)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
Protocol: 26 (changed)
Changes since 2.5.1:

  SECURITY FIXES:

    * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
      <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
      careful about reading integers from the network.

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix possible string mangling in log files.

    * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.

    * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
      64-bit dev_t or ino_t.

    * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.

    * Fix for device nodes.  (dann frazier)   (Debian #129135)

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
      connection.

    * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
      support mallinfo().

    * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
      visible and people will think it's faster.  (With --progress,
      rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
      file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)

    * Improvements to batch mode support.  This is still experimental
      but testing would be welcome.   (Jos Backus)

    * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
      Vipul's Razor.  (Debian #124286)

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.5.0:

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser.  (Paul
      Mackerras)

    * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
      (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
      Hagino)

    * Various fixes for IPv6 support.  (Dave Dykstra)

    * rsync.1 typo fix.  (Matt Kraai)

    * Test suite typo fixes.  (Tom Schmidt)

    * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements.  (Edward
      Welbourne)

    * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop.  (Jeff Garzik)

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
      multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion.  (Rik
      Faith)

    * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
      useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
      debugger.  (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)

    * Clearer error messages for some conditions.

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NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
Protocol: 25 (changed)
Changes since 2.4.6:

  ANNOUNCEMENTS

    * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.

  NEW FEATURES

    * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>

    * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.

    * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
      sets.  By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
      Backus.  <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>

    * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
      including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.  Also
      includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
      Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
      portability project, and OpenBSD.

  ENHANCEMENTS

    * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
      included or excluded and why.

    * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
      details.

    * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.

    * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
      file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
      open when going to sleep on the socket.  This allows the log
      file to get cleaned out by another process.

    * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
      options.	This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
      consistent across platforms.  popt is included and built if not
      installed on the platform.

    * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
      files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.

    * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.

    * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure.  If we use mktemp,
      explain that we do it in a secure way.

    * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
	local machine.

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.

    * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.

    * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.

    * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
      to transfer fail to transfer.

    * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
      overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
      ellipsis at the end of the string.  (Patch from Ed Santiago.)

  PLATFORMS:

    * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)

    * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
      scripts.  It is not required to simply build rsync.

    * Platforms thought to work in this release:

		Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
		Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
		Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
		FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
		FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
		FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
		HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
		HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
		IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
		IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
		Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
		NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
		NetBSD Current i386 cc
		OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
		OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
		OpenBSD Current i386 cc
		RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
		RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
		RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
		RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
		Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
		Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
		Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
		Solaris 8 i386 gcc
		SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
		SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
		i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
		i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
		powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
		i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
		i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc

  TESTING:

    * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
      test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
      build farm.
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Partial Protocol History
	RELEASE DATE	VER.	DATE OF COMMIT	PROTOCOL
	01 Jan 2004	2.6.0	10 Apr 2003	27 (MAX=40)
	04 Dec 2003	2.5.7			26
	26 Jan 2003	2.5.6			26
	02 Apr 2002	2.5.5			26
	13 Mar 2002	2.5.4			26
	11 Mar 2002	2.5.3			26
	26 Jan 2002	2.5.2	11 Jan 2002	26
	03 Jan 2002	2.5.1			25
	30 Nov 2001	2.5.0	23 Aug 2001	25
	06 Sep 2000	2.4.6			24
	19 Aug 2000	2.4.5			24
	29 Jul 2000	2.4.4			24
	09 Apr 2000	2.4.3			24
	30 Mar 2000	2.4.2			24
	30 Jan 2000	2.4.1	29 Jan 2000	24
	29 Jan 2000	2.4.0	28 Jan 2000	23
	25 Jan 2000	2.3.3	23 Jan 2000	22
	08 Nov 1999	2.3.2	26 Jun 1999	21
	06 Apr 1999	2.3.1			20
	15 Mar 1999	2.3.0	15 Mar 1999	20
	25 Nov 1998	2.2.1			19
	03 Nov 1998	2.2.0			19
	09 Sep 1998	2.1.1			19
	20 Jul 1998	2.1.0			19
	17 Jul 1998	2.0.19			19
	18 Jun 1998	2.0.17			19
	01 Jun 1998	2.0.16			19
	27 May 1998	2.0.13	27 May 1998	19
	26 May 1998	2.0.12			18
	22 May 1998	2.0.11			18
	18 May 1998	2.0.9	18 May 1998	18
	17 May 1998	2.0.8			17
	15 May 1998	2.0.1			17
	14 May 1998	2.0.0			17
	17 Apr 1998	1.7.4			17
	13 Apr 1998	1.7.3			17
	05 Apr 1998	1.7.2			17
	26 Mar 1998	1.7.1			17
	26 Mar 1998	1.7.0	26 Mar 1998	17 (MAX=30)
	13 Jan 1998	1.6.9	13 Jan 1998	15 (MAX=20)

* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.
Commit	Line	Data
276877cf WD	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:
54c7298c MP	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
276877cf WD	146	NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
	147	Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
	148	Changes since 2.5.3:
c9a66d41 MP	149
	150	BUG FIXES:
	151
	152	* Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
	153	Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
276877cf	154
c9a66d41 MP	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
276877cf WD	164	NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
	165	Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
	166	Changes since 2.5.2:
d40fb723 MP	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
d40fb723 MP	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
d40fb723 MP	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
276877cf WD	214	\f
	215	NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
	216	Protocol: 26 (changed)
	217	Changes since 2.5.1:
97efa5c3 MP	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().
97efa5c3 MP	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)
276877cf	253
97efa5c3 MP	254	* New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
	255	Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
	256
276877cf WD	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:
499957d9	263
499957d9 MP	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
276877cf WD	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
276877cf WD	289	useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
276877cf WD	290	debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
499957d9 MP	291
	292	* Clearer error messages for some conditions.
	293
c9a66d41	294	\f
276877cf WD	295	NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
	296	Protocol: 25 (changed)
	297	Changes since 2.4.6:
d313ae7d MP	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.
d313ae7d MP	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.
d313ae7d MP	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.
3742bf3a S	411	\f
3742bf3a S	412	Partial Protocol History
276877cf WD	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.