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1 | rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) |
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 | ||
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 | ||
17 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems | |
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. | |
22 | ||
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 | ||
56 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. | |
57 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
69 | PLATFORMS: | |
70 | ||
71 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) | |
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 | * Platforms thought to work in this release: | |
77 | ||
78 | Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc | |
79 | Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc | |
80 | Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc | |
81 | FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc | |
82 | FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc | |
83 | FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc | |
84 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc | |
85 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc | |
86 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc | |
87 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc | |
88 | Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc | |
89 | NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc | |
90 | NetBSD Current i386 cc | |
91 | OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc | |
92 | OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc | |
93 | OpenBSD Current i386 cc | |
94 | RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc | |
95 | RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ | |
96 | RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc | |
97 | RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc | |
98 | Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) | |
99 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc | |
100 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc | |
101 | Solaris 8 i386 gcc | |
102 | SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 | |
103 | SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 | |
104 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc | |
105 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc | |
106 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc | |
107 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc | |
108 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc | |
109 | ||
110 | TESTING: | |
111 | ||
112 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a | |
113 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba | |
114 | build farm. |