-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.5:
- 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)
+ SECURITY FIXES:
- * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
- destination field.
+ - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression
+ code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse
+ the --compress option.
- * 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)
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
- rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+ - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
+ This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
+ (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
+ combined with --link-dest).
- * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
- Middleton)
+ - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
+ without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though
+ it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
+ file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
+ a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
+ totally unchanged items).
- * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+ - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
+ item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+ - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
+ time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
- * 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)
+ - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being
+ unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the
+ directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that
+ ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing
+ destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version).
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- * 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)
+ - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
+ per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
- * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
- processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
- an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
+ - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
+ that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
+ also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
+ of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
- * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
- broken. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix
+ mentioned above).
- INTERNAL:
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
+ NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
+ find in the /etc/group file).
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
+ -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
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