Note on zlib patch merge.
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1rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet)
2
3 SECURITY FIXES:
4
5 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
6 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
7 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
8
9 BUG FIXES:
10
11 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
12 CAN-2002-0059)
13
14 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
15 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
16 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
17
18 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
19 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
20
21 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
22 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
23
24 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
25 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
26
27 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
28 slash.
29
30 ENHANCEMENTS:
31
32 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
33 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
34 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
35
36 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
37 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
38 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
39 to parse the output.
40
41 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
42
43 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
44 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
45
46 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
47 print an error message. (Colin Walters)