| 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. |