1 rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002)
3 "Imitation lizard skin"
7 * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
8 Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
12 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
13 (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
14 not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
16 * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
19 rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002)
25 * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
26 process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
27 #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
31 * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
34 * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
35 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
36 and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
38 * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
39 "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
41 * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
42 on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
44 * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
45 unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
47 * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
52 * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
53 rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
54 against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
56 * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
57 than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
58 what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
61 * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
63 * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
64 and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
66 * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
67 print an error message. (Colin Walters)
69 rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
73 * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
74 <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
75 careful about reading integers from the network.
79 * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
81 * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
83 * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
84 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
86 * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
88 * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
92 * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
95 * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
98 * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
99 visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
100 rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
101 file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
103 * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
104 but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
106 * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
107 Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
109 rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
113 * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
116 * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
117 (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
120 * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
122 * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
124 * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
126 * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
129 * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
133 * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
134 multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
137 * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
138 useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
139 debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
141 * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
144 rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
148 * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
152 * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
154 * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
156 * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
157 sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
158 Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
160 * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
161 including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
162 includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
163 Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
164 portability project, and OpenBSD.
168 * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
169 included or excluded and why.
171 * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
174 * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
176 * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
177 file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
178 open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
179 file to get cleaned out by another process.
181 * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
182 options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
183 consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
184 installed on the platform.
186 * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
187 files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
189 * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
191 * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
192 explain that we do it in a secure way.
194 * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
199 * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
201 * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
203 * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
205 * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
206 to transfer fail to transfer
208 * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
209 overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
210 ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
214 * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
216 * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
217 scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
219 * Platforms thought to work in this release:
221 Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
222 Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
223 Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
224 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
225 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
226 FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
227 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
228 HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
231 Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
233 NetBSD Current i386 cc
234 OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
236 OpenBSD Current i386 cc
238 RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
240 RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
241 Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
242 Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
243 Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
245 SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
246 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
247 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
248 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
249 powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
250 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
251 i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
255 * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
256 test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba