-rsync changes since last release
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
- Zimmerman)
-
- * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
- specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
- server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
- as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
-
- * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
- destination field.
-
- * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
- rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
- unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
- (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
- rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
- * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
- in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
- timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
+ - 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
+ intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, any option that tells a
+ non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as
+ --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain
+ to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the
+ module's path. Both these changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+ same 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.
+
+ - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest
+ options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's
+ destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these
+ options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since
+ these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
+ incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+ how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+ directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+ generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+ also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+ the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+ process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+ receiving files.)
+
+ - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
+ or --size-only is specified.
+
+ - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+ chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+ from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+ over and over again).
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
-
- * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
- contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
- list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ - ...
- INTERNAL:
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+ make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.
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