1 rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002)
5 * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
6 otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
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)
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.
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)
24 * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
26 * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
29 * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
30 for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
32 * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
34 <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
37 * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
40 rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002)
42 "Imitation lizard skin"
46 * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
47 Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
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)
55 * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
58 rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002)
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)
70 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
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.
77 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
78 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
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".
83 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
84 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
86 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
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)
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
100 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
102 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
103 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
105 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
106 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
108 rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
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.
118 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
120 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
122 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
123 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
125 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
127 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
131 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
134 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
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.)
142 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
143 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
145 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
146 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
148 rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
152 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
155 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
156 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
159 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
161 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
163 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
165 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
168 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
172 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
173 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
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)
180 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
183 rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
187 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
191 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
193 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
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>
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.
207 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
208 included or excluded and why.
210 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
213 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
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.
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.
225 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
226 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
228 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
230 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
231 explain that we do it in a secure way.
233 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
238 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
240 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
242 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
244 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
245 to transfer fail to transfer
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.)
253 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
255 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
256 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
258 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
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
270 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
272 NetBSD Current i386 cc
273 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
275 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
277 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
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
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
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