-NEWS for rsync version 2.6.0
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since version 2.5.7:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
- change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
-
- * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
- Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
- files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length).
- The per-file checksum size is determined according
- to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which
- reduces the probability of rsync algorithm
- corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
- checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
-
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
-
- * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
- sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
- file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.2:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
+ rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
+ transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
+ file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
+ disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
+ rsync under is anything above "nobody".
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
+
+ - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
+ term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
+ you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
+ would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
+ indicator that the verbose output is over.
+
+ - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
+ "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
+ - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
+ with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
+ filename from causing an empty line to be output).
+
+ - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
+ options are specified is now the same both with and without the
+ --backup-dir option.
BUG FIXES:
- * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
- This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
- matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
- cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
- what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
-
- - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
- For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
+ - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
+ multiple source directories were specified.
- - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo).
+ - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ checksums.
- - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
- the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
- just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does.
+ - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
+ over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
- - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
- against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
- there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
- would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
- "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance).
+ - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
+ the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
+ terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
- * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
- properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
- user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
+ data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
+ file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
+ retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
+ (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
+ older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
+ older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
+ error.)
- * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
- block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
- Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
- (Craig Barratt)
+ - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
+ is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
+ overwrite the original file in the backup area).
- * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
- mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
- counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
- file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
+ items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
+ allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
- * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
- multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
+ phase.
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+ - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
+ the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
+ - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
+ for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
+ "vanished".
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
+ - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
+ the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
+ option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
+ - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
+ refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
+ (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
+ wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
- * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
- when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
+ - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
+ returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
+ intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
- * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
+ batch-processing options.
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
+ - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
+ implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
+ that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
+ implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
+ suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
+ help).
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
+ - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+ messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
+ die with a socket-write error).
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
+ - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+ hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+ that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
+ behavior).
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+ the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
+ can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
+ This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
+ AIX and HP-UX.
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+ (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+ - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
+ exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
+ sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
-
- INTERNAL:
+ - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
+ with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
+ user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
+ using the "2>&1").
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
-
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7:
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.6:
-
- SECURITY:
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
- Russell, Andrea Barisani)
+ - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+ (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+ writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+ Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
+ that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
+ the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
+ - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
+ onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+ as matching a normal directory from the sender.
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.5:
+ - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+ file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
+ in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+ are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
+ Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
- * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
+ and documented all these options in the man page.
- * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
- Zimmerman)
+ - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
+ bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
+ values.
- * 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 daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
+ SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
- * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
- destination field.
+ - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
- * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
- rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
+ fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
+ sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
+ systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
+ to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
+ file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
+ stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
+ same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
- * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
- unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
+ presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
+ authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
+ if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
+ error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
+ names.
- * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
- rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+ - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
+ option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
- * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
- Middleton)
+ - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
+ updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
+ finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
+ disallowed all group and world access.
- * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+ - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
+ (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
- * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
- terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
+ filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
+ limit).
- * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
- (Dave Dykstra)
+ INTERNAL:
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
+ and made the code easier to maintain.
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+ - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
+ lot of args.
- * 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)
+ - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
+ with strerror() as an arg.
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+ - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
+ IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
+ handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
+ them).
- * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+ - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
+ crawl if the block size got too large).
- * 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)
+ - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
- * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
- dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
+ makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
+ being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
+ sides when sending the file-list).
- * 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)
+ - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
+ arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
+ functionality into the latter.
- * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
- broken. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
+ specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
+ not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
- * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
- (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
- when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
+ including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
- * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
+ - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
+ proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
+ updated).
- INTERNAL:
+ - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
+ target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
+ have $STRIP already set in the environment.
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
- * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
+ - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
+ be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
+ - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
+ new tests added.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
+ - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
+ ones were removed.
- * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
- means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
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