| 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
| 3 | Changes since 2.6.7: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | BUG FIXES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any |
| 8 | wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative |
| 9 | is in effect. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the |
| 12 | receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call |
| 13 | never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about |
| 14 | the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). |
| 15 | |
| 16 | - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as |
| 17 | that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position |
| 18 | beyond the failed read's data. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored |
| 21 | in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by |
| 22 | init). |
| 23 | |
| 24 | - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit |
| 25 | instead of silently ignoring the option. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as |
| 28 | fifos) from being linked. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at |
| 31 | configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest |
| 32 | creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the |
| 37 | error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the |
| 40 | message. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex |
| 45 | that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the |
| 48 | attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) |
| 49 | taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) |
| 54 | compatibility functions. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential |
| 57 | buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of |
| 62 | a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its |
| 63 | actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present). |