-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*-
ANNOUNCEMENTS
sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
+ * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
+ including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
+ includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
+ Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
+ portability project, and OpenBSD.
+
ENHANCEMENTS
* Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
file to get cleaned out by another process.
* Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
+ options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
installed on the platform.
explain that we do it in a secure way.
* --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ local machine.
BUG FIXES:
+ * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+
* Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
* Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
* Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
to transfer fail to transfer
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
-
- * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.
+ * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
+ overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
+ ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
PLATFORMS:
* Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+
+ * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
+ scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+
+ * Platforms thought to work in this release:
+
+ Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
+ Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
+ Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
+ FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
+ FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
+ FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
+ HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
+ HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
+ IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
+ IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
+ Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
+ NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
+ NetBSD Current i386 cc
+ OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
+ OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
+ OpenBSD Current i386 cc
+ RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
+ RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
+ RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
+ RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
+ Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
+ Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
+ Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
+ Solaris 8 i386 gcc
+ SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
+ SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
+ i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
+ i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
+ powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
+ i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
+ i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
+
+ TESTING:
+
+ * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
+ test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
+ build farm.