| 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: |
| 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 |
| 146 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) |
| 147 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) |
| 148 | Changes since 2.5.3: |
| 149 | |
| 150 | BUG FIXES: |
| 151 | |
| 152 | * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew |
| 153 | Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) |
| 154 | |
| 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 |
| 164 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) |
| 165 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) |
| 166 | Changes since 2.5.2: |
| 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 | |
| 179 | * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message |
| 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) |
| 200 | |
| 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 | |
| 214 | \f |
| 215 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) |
| 216 | Protocol: 26 (changed) |
| 217 | Changes since 2.5.1: |
| 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 |
| 244 | support mallinfo(). |
| 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) |
| 253 | |
| 254 | * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with |
| 255 | Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) |
| 256 | |
| 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: |
| 263 | |
| 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 |
| 285 | multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik |
| 286 | Faith) |
| 287 | |
| 288 | * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also |
| 289 | useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a |
| 290 | debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) |
| 291 | |
| 292 | * Clearer error messages for some conditions. |
| 293 | |
| 294 | \f |
| 295 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) |
| 296 | Protocol: 25 (changed) |
| 297 | Changes since 2.4.6: |
| 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 |
| 359 | to transfer fail to transfer. |
| 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 |
| 370 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. |
| 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. |
| 411 | \f |
| 412 | Partial Protocol History |
| 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. |