1 NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
2 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
7 * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
8 Russell, Andrea Barisani)
11 NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
12 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
17 * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
19 * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
22 * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
23 specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
24 server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
25 as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
27 * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
30 * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
31 rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
33 * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
34 unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
37 * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
38 rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
40 * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
43 * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
44 and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
46 * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
47 terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
49 * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
54 * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
55 L. Allen, Martin Pool)
57 * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
58 in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
59 timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
61 * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
63 * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
65 * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
66 contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
67 list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
69 * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
70 dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
72 * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
73 processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
74 an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
76 * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
77 broken. (Dave Dykstra)
79 * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
80 (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
82 * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
83 when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
85 * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
89 * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
92 * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
94 * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
96 * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
98 * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
101 * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
102 means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
105 NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
106 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
111 * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
112 otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
114 * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
115 accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
116 (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
118 * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
119 a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
120 similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
126 * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
127 slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
128 current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
130 * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
132 * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
135 * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
136 for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
138 * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
140 <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
143 * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
146 NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
147 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
152 * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
153 Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
157 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
158 (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
159 not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
161 * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
164 NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
165 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
170 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
171 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
172 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
176 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
179 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
180 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
181 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
183 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
184 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
186 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
187 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
189 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
190 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
192 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
197 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
198 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
199 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
201 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
202 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
203 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
206 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
208 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
209 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
211 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
212 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
215 NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
216 Protocol: 26 (changed)
221 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
222 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
223 careful about reading integers from the network.
227 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
229 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
231 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
232 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
234 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
236 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
240 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
243 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
246 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
247 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
248 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
249 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
251 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
252 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
254 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
255 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
258 NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
259 Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
264 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
267 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
268 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
271 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
273 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
275 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
277 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
280 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
284 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
285 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
288 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
289 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
290 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
292 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
295 NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
296 Protocol: 25 (changed)
301 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
305 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
307 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
309 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
310 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
311 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
313 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
314 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
315 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
316 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
317 portability project, and OpenBSD.
321 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
322 included or excluded and why.
324 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
327 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
329 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
330 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
331 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
332 file to get cleaned out by another process.
334 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
335 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
336 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
337 installed on the platform.
339 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
340 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
342 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
344 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
345 explain that we do it in a secure way.
347 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
352 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
354 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
356 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
358 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
359 to transfer fail to transfer.
361 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
362 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
363 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
367 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
369 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
370 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
372 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
374 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
375 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
376 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
377 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
378 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
379 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
380 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
381 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
384 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
386 NetBSD Current i386 cc
387 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
389 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
391 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
393 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
394 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
395 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
396 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
398 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
399 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
400 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
401 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
402 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
403 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
404 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
408 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
409 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
412 Partial Protocol History
413 RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT PROTOCOL
414 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40)
420 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26
422 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25
428 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24
429 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23
430 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22
431 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21
433 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20
438 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19
439 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19
440 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19
441 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19
442 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18
443 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18
444 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18
452 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30)
453 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20)
455 * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.