1 rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002)
2 protocol: 26 (unchanged)
6 * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
7 otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
9 * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
10 accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
11 (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
13 * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
14 a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
15 similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
21 * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
22 slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
23 current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
25 * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
27 * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
30 * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
31 for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
33 * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
35 <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
38 * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
41 rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002)
42 protocol: 26 (unchanged)
44 "Imitation lizard skin"
48 * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
49 Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
53 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
54 (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
55 not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
57 * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
60 rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002)
61 protocol: 26 (unchanged)
67 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
68 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
69 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
73 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
76 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
77 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
78 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
80 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
81 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
83 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
84 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
86 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
87 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
89 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
94 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
95 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
96 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
98 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
99 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
100 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
103 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
105 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
106 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
108 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
109 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
111 rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
112 protocol: 26 (changed)
116 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
117 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
118 careful about reading integers from the network.
122 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
124 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
126 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
127 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
129 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
131 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
135 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
138 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
141 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
142 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
143 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
144 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
146 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
147 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
149 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
150 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
152 rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
153 protocol: 25 (changed)
157 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
160 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
161 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
164 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
166 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
168 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
170 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
173 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
177 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
178 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
181 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
182 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
183 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
185 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
188 rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
192 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
196 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
198 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
200 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
201 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
202 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
204 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
205 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
206 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
207 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
208 portability project, and OpenBSD.
212 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
213 included or excluded and why.
215 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
218 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
220 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
221 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
222 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
223 file to get cleaned out by another process.
225 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
226 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
227 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
228 installed on the platform.
230 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
231 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
233 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
235 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
236 explain that we do it in a secure way.
238 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
243 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
245 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
247 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
249 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
250 to transfer fail to transfer
252 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
253 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
254 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
258 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
260 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
261 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
263 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
265 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
266 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
267 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
268 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
269 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
270 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
271 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
272 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
275 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
277 NetBSD Current i386 cc
278 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
280 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
282 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
284 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
285 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
286 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
287 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
289 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
290 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
291 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
292 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
293 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
294 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
295 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
299 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
300 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
303 Partial Protocol History
304 DATE OF COMMIT* RELEASE PROTOCL VERSION
305 2003/01/26 20:11:16 release-2-5-6 26
306 2002/02/23 00:17:50 release-2-5-3 26
307 2002/01/25 23:00:21 release-2-5-2 26
308 2001/12/18 06:47:40 release-2-5-1 25
309 2000/08/16 08:34:18 release-2-4-5 24
310 2000/07/29 04:52:05 release-2-4-4 24
311 2000/03/30 14:15:00 release-2-4-2 24
312 2000/01/29 23:49:36 release-2-4-1 24
313 2000/01/29 02:56:37 release-2-4-0 23
314 1999/06/26 01:06:38 release-2-3-2 21
315 1999/03/15 21:17:59 release-2-3-0 20
316 1998/11/15 01:21:42 release-2-2-1 19
317 1998/11/03 07:08:28 release-2-2-0 19
318 1998/09/09 06:31:14 release-2-1-1 19
319 1998/07/17 14:43:05 release-2-0-19 19
320 1998/06/18 12:17:24 release-2-0-18 19
321 1998/06/18 09:51:56 release-2-0-17 19
322 1998/06/01 03:42:22 release-2-0-16 19
323 1998/05/27 13:47:34 release-2-0-13 19
324 1998/05/26 14:19:00 release-2-0-12 18
325 1998/05/21 05:55:33 release-2-0-11 18
326 1998/05/18 08:20:34 release-2-0-9 18
327 1998/05/17 05:56:33 release-2-0-8 17
328 1998/05/15 07:34:21 release-2-0-2 17
329 1998/05/13 15:44:11 release-2-0-0 17
330 1998/04/17 06:07:26 release-1-7-4 17
331 1998/04/05 06:43:55 release-1-7-2 17
332 1998/03/26 04:18:57 release-1-7-0 17
333 1998/01/13 15:57:32 release-1-6-9 15
334 1997/12/17 11:07:30 release-1-6-7 14
335 1997/12/15 18:36:21 release-1-6-4 14
337 * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocl change was committed
338 to cvs, not the release date.