Mention the "munge symlinks" daemon setting.

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
+    - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
+      once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
+
     - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
       sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that each symlink's
       value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       of the module's path.  These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
       same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
       potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
-      module's hierarchy.
+      module's hierarchy.  See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting.
 
     - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
       --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
@@ -31,12 +34,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       process.  (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
       receiving files.)
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
+      destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
+      when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
+
+    - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
+      trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
+
     - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
       is specified.
 
     - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
       will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
-      regardless of the file's modify-time.
+      even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
 
     - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
       chroot.  This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
@@ -59,6 +69,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       it with affecting the log-file output.  (The old option remains as an
       alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
 
+    - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
+      the daemon's config file.
+
+    - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style
+      tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, regardless of how "use chroot" is set.
+
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to