| 1 | rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002) |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; |
| 6 | otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" |
| 9 | accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. |
| 10 | (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of |
| 13 | a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, |
| 14 | similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. |
| 15 | (Martin Pool) |
| 16 | |
| 17 | |
| 18 | BUG FIXES: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process |
| 21 | slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the |
| 22 | current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin |
| 27 | Pool.) |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even |
| 30 | for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle |
| 33 | trailing slashes. |
| 34 | <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html> |
| 35 | (Martin Pool) |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) |
| 38 | |
| 39 | \f |
| 40 | rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | "Imitation lizard skin" |
| 43 | |
| 44 | BUG FIXES: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew |
| 47 | Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) |
| 52 | (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can |
| 53 | not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) |
| 56 | |
| 57 | \f |
| 58 | rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002) |
| 59 | |
| 60 | "Happy 26" |
| 61 | |
| 62 | SECURITY FIXES: |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server |
| 65 | process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug |
| 66 | #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) |
| 67 | |
| 68 | BUG FIXES: |
| 69 | |
| 70 | * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE |
| 71 | CAN-2002-0059) |
| 72 | |
| 73 | * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message |
| 74 | unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr |
| 75 | and resulted in the wrong data being copied. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of |
| 78 | "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc |
| 81 | on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". |
| 82 | |
| 83 | * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client |
| 84 | unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing |
| 87 | slash. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 90 | |
| 91 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that |
| 92 | rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link |
| 93 | against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) |
| 94 | |
| 95 | * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather |
| 96 | than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to |
| 97 | what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try |
| 98 | to parse the output. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) |
| 101 | |
| 102 | * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work |
| 103 | and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) |
| 104 | |
| 105 | * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, |
| 106 | print an error message. (Colin Walters) |
| 107 | |
| 108 | rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) |
| 109 | |
| 110 | SECURITY FIXES: |
| 111 | |
| 112 | * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer |
| 113 | <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently |
| 114 | careful about reading integers from the network. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | BUG FIXES: |
| 117 | |
| 118 | * Fix possible string mangling in log files. |
| 119 | |
| 120 | * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with |
| 123 | 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) |
| 128 | |
| 129 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 130 | |
| 131 | * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh |
| 132 | connection. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that |
| 135 | support mallinfo(). |
| 136 | |
| 137 | * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress |
| 138 | visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, |
| 139 | rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the |
| 140 | file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) |
| 141 | |
| 142 | * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental |
| 143 | but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with |
| 146 | Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) |
| 147 | |
| 148 | rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03) |
| 149 | |
| 150 | BUG FIXES: |
| 151 | |
| 152 | * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul |
| 153 | Mackerras) |
| 154 | |
| 155 | * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. |
| 156 | (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" |
| 157 | Hagino) |
| 158 | |
| 159 | * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) |
| 160 | |
| 161 | * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) |
| 164 | |
| 165 | * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward |
| 166 | Welbourne) |
| 167 | |
| 168 | * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) |
| 169 | |
| 170 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 171 | |
| 172 | * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a |
| 173 | multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik |
| 174 | Faith) |
| 175 | |
| 176 | * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also |
| 177 | useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a |
| 178 | debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) |
| 179 | |
| 180 | * Clearer error messages for some conditions. |
| 181 | |
| 182 | \f |
| 183 | rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) |
| 184 | |
| 185 | ANNOUNCEMENTS |
| 186 | |
| 187 | * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | NEW FEATURES |
| 190 | |
| 191 | * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> |
| 192 | |
| 193 | * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch |
| 196 | sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos |
| 197 | Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> |
| 198 | |
| 199 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems |
| 200 | including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also |
| 201 | includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the |
| 202 | Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH |
| 203 | portability project, and OpenBSD. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | ENHANCEMENTS |
| 206 | |
| 207 | * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are |
| 208 | included or excluded and why. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more |
| 211 | details. |
| 212 | |
| 213 | * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log |
| 216 | file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is |
| 217 | open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log |
| 218 | file to get cleaned out by another process. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing |
| 221 | options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more |
| 222 | consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not |
| 223 | installed on the platform. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit |
| 226 | files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. |
| 227 | |
| 228 | * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. |
| 229 | |
| 230 | * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, |
| 231 | explain that we do it in a secure way. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the |
| 234 | local machine. |
| 235 | |
| 236 | BUG FIXES: |
| 237 | |
| 238 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. |
| 239 | |
| 240 | * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. |
| 241 | |
| 242 | * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. |
| 243 | |
| 244 | * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked |
| 245 | to transfer fail to transfer |
| 246 | |
| 247 | * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might |
| 248 | overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an |
| 249 | ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) |
| 250 | |
| 251 | PLATFORMS: |
| 252 | |
| 253 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) |
| 254 | |
| 255 | * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf |
| 256 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. |
| 257 | |
| 258 | * Platforms thought to work in this release: |
| 259 | |
| 260 | Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc |
| 261 | Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc |
| 262 | Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc |
| 263 | FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc |
| 264 | FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc |
| 265 | FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc |
| 266 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc |
| 267 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc |
| 268 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc |
| 269 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc |
| 270 | Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc |
| 271 | NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc |
| 272 | NetBSD Current i386 cc |
| 273 | OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc |
| 274 | OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc |
| 275 | OpenBSD Current i386 cc |
| 276 | RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc |
| 277 | RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ |
| 278 | RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc |
| 279 | RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc |
| 280 | Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) |
| 281 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc |
| 282 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc |
| 283 | Solaris 8 i386 gcc |
| 284 | SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 |
| 285 | SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 |
| 286 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc |
| 287 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc |
| 288 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc |
| 289 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc |
| 290 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc |
| 291 | |
| 292 | TESTING: |
| 293 | |
| 294 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a |
| 295 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba |
| 296 | build farm. |