1 rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
5 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
6 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
7 careful about reading integers from the network.
11 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
13 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
15 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
16 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
18 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
20 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
24 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
27 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
30 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
31 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
32 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
33 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
35 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
36 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
38 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
39 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
41 rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
45 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
48 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
49 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
52 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
54 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
56 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
58 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
61 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
65 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
66 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
69 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
70 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
71 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
73 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
75 rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
79 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
83 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
85 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
87 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
88 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
89 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
91 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
92 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
93 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
94 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
95 portability project, and OpenBSD.
99 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
100 included or excluded and why.
102 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
105 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
107 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
108 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
109 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
110 file to get cleaned out by another process.
112 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
113 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
114 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
115 installed on the platform.
117 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
118 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
120 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
122 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
123 explain that we do it in a secure way.
125 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
130 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
132 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
134 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
136 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
137 to transfer fail to transfer
139 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
140 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
141 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
145 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
147 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
148 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
150 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
152 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
153 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
154 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
155 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
156 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
157 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
158 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
159 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
162 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
164 NetBSD Current i386 cc
165 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
167 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
169 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
171 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
172 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
173 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
174 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
176 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
177 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
178 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
179 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
180 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
181 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
182 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
186 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
187 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba