-NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.5:
-
- SECURITY FIXES:
-
- - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more
- secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did
- not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's
- zlib 1.1.4.
+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 --link-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 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 backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
- item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
-
- - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
- time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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 the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
-
- - The configure script now checks for lutimes() and lchmod() so that
- rsync can make use of them to update attributes of symlinks (on
- systems that support this).
-
- - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
- per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
-
- - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
- and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
- per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer.
-
- - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
- that take args (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.
-
- - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a
- normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer.
-
- - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or
- improved.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - 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).
+ - ...
- - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
- -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
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