1 rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002)
7 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
8 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
9 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
13 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
16 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
17 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
18 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
20 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
21 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
23 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
24 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
26 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
27 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
29 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
34 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
35 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
36 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
38 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
39 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
40 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
43 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
45 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
46 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
48 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
49 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
51 rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
55 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
56 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
57 careful about reading integers from the network.
61 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
63 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
65 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
66 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
68 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
70 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
74 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
77 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
80 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
81 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
82 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
83 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
85 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
86 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
88 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
89 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
91 rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
95 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
98 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
99 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
102 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
104 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
106 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
108 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
111 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
115 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
116 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
119 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
120 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
121 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
123 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
125 rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
129 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
133 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
135 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
137 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
138 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
139 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
141 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
142 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
143 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
144 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
145 portability project, and OpenBSD.
149 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
150 included or excluded and why.
152 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
155 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
157 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
158 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
159 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
160 file to get cleaned out by another process.
162 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
163 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
164 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
165 installed on the platform.
167 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
168 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
170 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
172 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
173 explain that we do it in a secure way.
175 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
180 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
182 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
184 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
186 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
187 to transfer fail to transfer
189 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
190 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
191 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
195 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
197 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
198 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
200 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
202 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
203 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
204 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
205 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
206 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
207 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
208 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
209 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
212 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
214 NetBSD Current i386 cc
215 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
217 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
219 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
221 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
222 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
223 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
224 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
226 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
227 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
228 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
229 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
230 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
231 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
232 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
236 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
237 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba