-NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.5:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - 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 --list-dest).
-
- - 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 thought
- it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
- file); with -i it would could output all trailing dots for an unchanged
- hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
- unchanged files).
-
- - 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.
+ - 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).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
- per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
+ - ...
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - 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).
+ - 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.
- - 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 config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.