-NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.8:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
BUG FIXES:
- - 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 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.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
+
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
+ not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
+
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
+
+ - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
+ CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
+ of rounding.h fails.
+
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
+
+ - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
+ that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
+ the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
+ protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
+ file) was already working.
+
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if
+ --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard-
+ linked set of files, but not all of them).
+
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
+
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
+
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
+
+ - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
+ itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
+ and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
+ between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
+ revised version with a new value (e.g. symlink referent, device
+ numbers).
+
+ - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
+ longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
+ date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
+ ownership, xattrs, etc.).
+
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it
+ automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
+
+ - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
+ wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
+
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - ...
+ - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
+ listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
+ --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
+
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
+
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
+ sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
+
+ - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
+ normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
+ not have caused problems, though.)
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - 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.
+ - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
+ unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
+ the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
- - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
- - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
- consistent opening comments.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.