-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.5:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
-
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
-
- - 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.
+ SECURITY FIXES:
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
- no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
- specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
- work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
- don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+ - 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.
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ BUG FIXES:
- - 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.
+ - 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).
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
+ - 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).
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - 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.
- - 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".
+ - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
+ time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit).
+ - 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).
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
+ - 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.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
-
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
-
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
+ per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - 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.
- - 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.
-
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix
+ mentioned above).
BUILD CHANGES:
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
-
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be
- updated).
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - 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).
- - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
+ -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
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