rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002) ENHANCEMENTS: * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. (Martin Pool) BUG FIXES: * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin Pool.) * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle trailing slashes. (Martin Pool) * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002) "Imitation lizard skin" BUG FIXES: * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) ENHANCEMENTS: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002) "Happy 26" SECURITY FIXES: * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) BUG FIXES: * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr and resulted in the wrong data being copied. * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing slash. ENHANCEMENTS: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try to parse the output. * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, print an error message. (Colin Walters) rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) SECURITY FIXES: * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer -- in some cases we were not sufficiently careful about reading integers from the network. BUG FIXES: * Fix possible string mangling in log files. * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) ENHANCEMENTS: * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh connection. * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that support mallinfo(). * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03) BUG FIXES: * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul Mackerras) * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino) * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward Welbourne) * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) ENHANCEMENTS: * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik Faith) * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) * Clearer error messages for some conditions. rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) ANNOUNCEMENTS * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. NEW FEATURES * Support for LSB-compliant packaging * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos Backus. * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH portability project, and OpenBSD. ENHANCEMENTS * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are included or excluded and why. * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more details. * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log file to get cleaned out by another process. * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not installed on the platform. * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, explain that we do it in a secure way. * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the local machine. BUG FIXES: * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked to transfer fail to transfer * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) PLATFORMS: * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. * Platforms thought to work in this release: Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc NetBSD Current i386 cc OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc OpenBSD Current i386 cc RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc Solaris 8 i386 gcc SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc TESTING: * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba build farm.