1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005)
7 - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
8 it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
9 sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
11 - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
12 sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
13 being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
14 (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.)
16 - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides
17 "send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars).
18 This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file.
20 - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now
21 avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances.
22 As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer
23 items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to
24 the transfer, so --verbose is now the equivalent of a --log-format of
25 '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any link info). If the log output
26 must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time the name
27 is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was specified
28 (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the full
29 --log-format output will come after).
31 - Non-printable characters in filenames are replaced with a '?' to
32 avoid corrupting the screen or generating empty lines in the output.
36 - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
37 was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
40 - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list
41 of changes that would be output without --dry-run.
43 - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
44 that already exists in the --backup-dir.
46 - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed
47 setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
48 mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
50 - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
51 the sender, and the file-list is large.
53 - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could
54 merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a multiplexed
55 packet of data if only part of that data had been written out to the
56 socket when the message from the generator arrived.
58 - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
59 FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in some compatibility code using
60 mkfifo() and socket() when necessary.
62 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. Also,
63 if the --max-delete limit is exceeded during a run, we now output a
64 warning about this at the end of the run and exit with a new error
67 - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
69 - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect
70 readable symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file.
72 - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will
73 affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try
74 to set the user and group of a symlink.
76 - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
77 rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
79 - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, where DIR is a
80 relative path, the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
81 file that was put into the partial-dir.
83 - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is
84 enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate
85 backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file).
87 - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
89 - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
92 - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
93 client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
94 compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
95 if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have
96 exited with an error for large files).
98 - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and
99 sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually
100 specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior
101 versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data
102 properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification.
104 - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
105 being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about
106 the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
107 specified) and exit with a new error code (6).
109 - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
110 (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
111 there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
113 - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator
114 is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress
115 output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.)
117 - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while
118 the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic
119 (looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time
120 touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that
121 should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to
122 make progress. (Requires protocol 29.)
124 - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the
125 items in the transfer (the size might be undefined on some OSes).
127 - Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it
128 back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and
129 the daemon was the receiver.
131 - The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differed in
132 (the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR.
134 - When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed
135 the change-report output for the directory so that we don't report
136 an identical directory as changed.
140 - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
141 use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
143 - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
144 from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
145 transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the
146 default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now also available as
147 --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that
148 will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without
149 a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so
150 an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
151 file-deleting options (including the new --remove-sent-files option).
153 - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
154 Previously an duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the
155 receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
156 algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files
157 inside the transfer).
159 - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
160 that it locally copies identical files instead of hard-linking them.
162 - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
163 --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
164 patches dir and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
166 - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
168 - The daemon-mode options are now separated from the normal rsync
169 options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it
170 impossible to start a daemon that has improper default option values
171 (which could cause problems when a client connects, such as hanging
174 - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
175 to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
176 that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
178 - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
179 the patches dir.) Also added "address". The command-line options
180 take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
182 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
183 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
186 - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
187 --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
190 - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
191 without recursion. Any directories that are encountered are created
192 on the destination. Specifying a directory with a trailing slash
193 copies its immediate contents to the destination.
195 - The --files-from option now implies --dirs (-d).
197 - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to
198 put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
199 internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*"
200 for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically
201 (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon,
202 but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
203 the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
205 - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating
206 the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
207 option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
208 the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide
209 an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
212 - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
213 rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
214 that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
215 filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
216 This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
217 include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
218 versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but
219 backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.
220 (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.)
222 - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
223 a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
224 --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
225 makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
227 - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
230 - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
231 setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
233 - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
234 they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a
235 non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone
238 - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a
239 more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect
240 is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the
241 rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too.
243 - Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file
244 for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm
245 only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it
246 does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file
247 was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy
248 name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it
249 needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and
250 enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
252 - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files
255 - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal
256 enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6
257 literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.)
259 - When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open
260 one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs.
262 - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to
263 avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync
266 - The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or
267 --read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see
268 what would happen without --dry-run.
270 - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only
271 variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the
272 read-only side can succeed.
274 - The log-format % escapes can now have a numeric field width in
275 between the % and the escape letter (e.g. "%-40n %08p").
277 - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
281 - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will
282 transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into
283 place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when
284 pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to
287 - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the
288 /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will
289 exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The
290 excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly
293 - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make
294 a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test
295 for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and
296 the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error.
298 - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe
299 Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only
300 certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation.
304 - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
307 - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so
308 that it is easier to maintain.
310 - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
311 consistency and proper size.
313 - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
315 - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
317 - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
318 find a variable with at least 32 bits.
320 PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
322 - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This
323 indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The
324 generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when
325 dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message),
326 which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and
327 less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is
328 now outputting all the file-change info messages).
330 - If a file is being hard-linked, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit is enabled
331 in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately
332 follows in vstring format (see below).
334 - If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the
335 ITEM_BASIS_TYPE_FOLLOWS bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single
336 byte follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that
337 indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit
338 is set in the flag-word and the name of the match in vstring format
339 follows the basis byte. A vstring is a variable length string that
340 has its size written prior to the string, and no terminating null.
341 If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length is a single byte. If
342 it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is written as ((len >> 8) |
343 0x80) followed by (len % 0x100).
345 - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
346 means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
347 (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
348 option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
349 filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
352 - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir
353 names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it
354 always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the
355 list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
356 directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
358 - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
359 is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and
360 the new --list-only option is included in the options.
362 - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
363 they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
364 build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
365 wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
367 - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
368 excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to
369 the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in
370 this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that
371 survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the
372 filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other
373 side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list
374 that is sent in this scenario is often empty.
376 - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet
377 from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the
378 receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive
379 packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit
380 (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone).
382 - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
383 option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell
384 script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead
385 of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
389 - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
391 - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
392 NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
393 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
398 - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
399 rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
400 transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
401 file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
402 disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
403 rsync under is anything above "nobody".
405 OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
407 - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
408 term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
409 you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
410 would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
411 indicator that the verbose output is over.
413 - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
414 "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
416 - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
417 with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
418 filename from causing an empty line to be output).
420 - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
421 options are specified is now the same both with and without the
426 - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
427 multiple source directories were specified.
429 - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
432 - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
433 over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
435 - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
436 the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
437 terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
439 - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
440 data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
441 file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
442 retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
443 (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
444 older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
445 older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
448 - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
449 is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
450 overwrite the original file in the backup area).
452 - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
453 items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
454 allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
456 - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
459 - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
460 the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
462 - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
463 for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
466 - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
467 the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
468 option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
470 - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
471 refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
472 (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
473 wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
475 - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
476 returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
477 intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
479 - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
480 batch-processing options.
482 - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
483 implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
484 that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
485 implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
486 suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
489 - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
490 messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
491 die with a socket-write error).
493 - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
494 hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
495 that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
498 - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
499 the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
501 - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
502 can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
503 This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
506 - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
507 (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
509 - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
510 exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
511 sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
513 - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
514 with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
516 - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
517 user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
522 - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
523 (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
524 writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
525 Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
526 that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
527 the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
529 - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
530 onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
531 as matching a normal directory from the sender.
533 - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
534 file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
535 in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
536 are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
537 Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
539 - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
541 - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
542 and documented all these options in the man page.
544 - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
545 bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
548 - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
549 SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
551 - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
553 - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
554 fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
555 sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
556 systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
557 to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
558 file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
559 stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
560 same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
562 - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
563 presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
564 authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
565 if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
566 error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
569 - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
570 option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
572 - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
573 updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
574 finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
575 disallowed all group and world access.
577 - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
578 (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
580 - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
581 filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
586 - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
587 and made the code easier to maintain.
589 - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
592 - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
593 with strerror() as an arg.
595 - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
596 IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
597 handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
600 - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
601 crawl if the block size got too large).
603 - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
605 - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
606 makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
607 being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
608 sides when sending the file-list).
610 - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
611 arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
612 functionality into the latter.
614 - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
615 specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
616 not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
620 - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
621 including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
623 - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
624 proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
627 - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
628 target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
629 have $STRIP already set in the environment.
631 - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
633 - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
634 be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
638 - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
641 - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
645 NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
646 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
651 - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative
652 is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were
653 affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list
654 item when requesting changes from the sender.
656 - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to
657 better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system.
659 - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages
660 rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix
661 will be sought in the future.)
663 - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid
664 code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.)
668 - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used
669 and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the
670 broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an
673 - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define
676 - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that
677 don't support __attribute__.
681 - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1.
683 - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir.
686 NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004)
687 Protocol: 28 (changed)
692 - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when
693 chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync
694 daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the
695 user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody".
699 - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket,
700 and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details).
702 - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
703 "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
706 - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer
707 we are, including both a count of files transferred and a
708 percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also
709 shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time
712 - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis-
713 understood features more clearly.
717 - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or
718 --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the
719 referent file is on a different filesystem.
721 - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when
722 (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was
723 specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on
724 the destination and -g was specified.
726 - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause
727 the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get
728 overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
730 - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of
731 each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer
732 with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file
733 than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered
734 over the wire for that file.
736 - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines.
739 - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
740 per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
741 directory (not all following directories too). The items are also
742 now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing.
744 - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part
745 can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to
746 find the HOST, not the first).
748 - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users:
749 (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name
750 for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in
751 that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer
752 attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission
755 - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
757 - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount-
758 point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that
759 it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount-
760 point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the
761 original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be
764 - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
765 when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
766 that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them).
768 - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with
769 or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as
770 --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative
771 one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless.
772 Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the
773 module's base dir when chroot is not enabled.
775 - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync
776 versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without
777 telling us that --backup-dir was specified.
779 - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process
780 now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems
781 that have a length field in their socket structs.
783 - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending
784 files to an rsync daemon.
788 - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large
789 speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
791 - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some
792 significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets.
794 - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent.
796 - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
799 - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up
800 the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
802 - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
803 group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
804 prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
805 hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
806 earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
809 - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released
810 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25
811 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz,
814 - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
816 - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
818 - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
820 - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
822 - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list
823 during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory
824 bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory).
825 Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared,
826 resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving
827 side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions
828 are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way
829 for the entire transfer.
831 - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation
832 pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits
833 freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
835 - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
836 (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and
837 the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the
838 "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from
839 the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator
840 over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and
841 verbose --stats output).
843 - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a
844 little more optimized.
846 - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as
847 separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28).
848 Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit
849 number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more
850 compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the
851 connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the
852 binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in
853 fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is
856 - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made
857 things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient.
859 - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now
860 handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the
861 wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the
862 batch code is still considered to be experimental.)
866 - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to
867 override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
869 - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
871 - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
872 sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
876 - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
878 - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones
879 that got applied, and rebuilt the rest.
882 NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
883 Protocol: 27 (changed)
888 * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
889 change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
891 * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
892 Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
893 files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
895 * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
898 * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
899 per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
900 provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
901 algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
902 checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
904 * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
905 unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
907 * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
908 sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
909 file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
911 * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
915 * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
916 This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
917 matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
918 cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
919 what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
921 - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
922 For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
923 [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
924 "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
927 - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
928 does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
930 - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
931 the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
932 just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
933 to get the old behavior in all versions.]
935 - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
936 against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
937 there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
938 would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
939 "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
940 old behavior in all versions.]
942 * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
943 properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
944 user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
946 * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
947 block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
948 Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
951 * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
952 mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
953 counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
954 file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
956 * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
957 multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
960 * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
962 * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
964 * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
967 * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
969 * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
970 when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
971 and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
973 * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
975 * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
976 that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
979 * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
980 to not get backed up.
982 * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
983 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
984 backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
986 * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
988 * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
989 what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
991 * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
992 using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
994 * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
995 special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
996 --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
997 same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
998 regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
1000 * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
1001 readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
1002 files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
1004 * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
1005 if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
1009 * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
1010 supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
1012 * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
1014 * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
1015 defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
1017 * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
1018 lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
1019 Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
1020 we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
1024 NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
1025 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
1026 Changes since 2.5.6:
1030 * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
1031 Russell, Andrea Barisani)
1034 NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
1035 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
1036 Changes since 2.5.5:
1040 * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
1042 * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
1045 * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
1046 specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
1047 server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
1048 as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
1050 * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
1053 * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
1054 rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
1056 * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
1057 unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
1060 * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
1061 rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
1063 * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
1066 * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
1067 and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
1069 * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
1070 terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
1072 * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
1077 * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
1078 L. Allen, Martin Pool)
1080 * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
1081 in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
1082 timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
1084 * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
1086 * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
1088 * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
1089 contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
1090 list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
1092 * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
1093 dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
1095 * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
1096 processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
1097 an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
1099 * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
1100 broken. (Dave Dykstra)
1102 * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
1103 (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
1105 * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
1106 when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
1108 * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
1112 * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
1115 * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
1117 * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
1119 * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
1121 * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
1124 * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
1125 means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
1128 NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
1129 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
1130 Changes since 2.5.4:
1134 * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
1135 otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
1137 * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
1138 accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
1139 (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
1141 * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
1142 a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
1143 similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
1149 * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
1150 slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
1151 current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
1153 * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
1155 * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
1158 * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
1159 for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
1161 * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
1163 <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
1166 * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
1169 NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
1170 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
1171 Changes since 2.5.3:
1175 * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
1176 Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
1180 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
1181 (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
1182 not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
1184 * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
1187 NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
1188 Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
1189 Changes since 2.5.2:
1193 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
1194 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
1195 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
1199 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
1202 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
1203 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
1204 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
1206 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
1207 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
1209 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
1210 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
1212 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
1213 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
1215 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
1220 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
1221 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
1222 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
1224 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
1225 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
1226 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
1227 to parse the output.
1229 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
1231 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
1232 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
1234 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
1235 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
1238 NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
1239 Protocol: 26 (changed)
1240 Changes since 2.5.1:
1244 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
1245 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
1246 careful about reading integers from the network.
1250 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
1252 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
1254 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
1255 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
1257 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
1259 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
1263 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
1266 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
1269 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
1270 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
1271 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
1272 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
1274 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
1275 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
1277 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
1278 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
1281 NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
1282 Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
1283 Changes since 2.5.0:
1287 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
1290 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
1291 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
1294 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
1296 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
1298 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
1300 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
1303 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
1307 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
1308 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
1311 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
1312 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
1313 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
1315 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
1318 NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
1319 Protocol: 25 (changed)
1320 Changes since 2.4.6:
1324 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
1328 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
1330 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
1332 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
1333 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
1334 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
1336 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
1337 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
1338 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
1339 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
1340 portability project, and OpenBSD.
1344 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
1345 included or excluded and why.
1347 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
1350 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
1352 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
1353 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
1354 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
1355 file to get cleaned out by another process.
1357 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
1358 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
1359 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
1360 installed on the platform.
1362 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
1363 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
1365 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
1367 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
1368 explain that we do it in a secure way.
1370 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
1375 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
1377 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
1379 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
1381 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
1382 to transfer fail to transfer.
1384 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
1385 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
1386 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
1390 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
1392 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
1393 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
1395 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
1397 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
1398 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
1399 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
1400 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
1401 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
1402 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
1403 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
1404 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
1407 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
1409 NetBSD Current i386 cc
1410 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
1412 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
1414 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
1416 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
1417 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
1418 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
1419 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
1421 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
1422 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
1423 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
1424 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
1425 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
1426 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
1427 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
1431 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
1432 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
1435 Partial Protocol History
1436 RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
1437 ?? May 2005 2.6.5 29
1438 30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29
1439 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28
1440 30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28
1441 26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28
1442 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40)
1443 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26
1444 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26
1445 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26
1446 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26
1447 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26
1448 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26
1449 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25
1450 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25
1451 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24
1452 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24
1453 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24
1454 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24
1455 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24
1456 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24
1457 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23
1458 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22
1459 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21
1460 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20
1461 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20
1462 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19
1463 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19
1464 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19
1465 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19
1466 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19
1467 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19
1468 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19
1469 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19
1470 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18
1471 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18
1472 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18
1473 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17
1474 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17
1475 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17
1476 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17
1477 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17
1478 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17
1479 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17
1480 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30)
1481 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20)
1483 * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.
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