-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.7:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
- wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
- is in effect.
-
- - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
- receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
- never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
- the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
-
- - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
- that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
- beyond the failed read's data.
-
- - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
- in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
- init).
-
- - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
- instead of silently ignoring the option.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
- fifos) from being linked.
-
- - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
- configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
- creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+ - 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, all arg paths and any
+ dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
+ manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
+ of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+ same way 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).
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+ it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+ to successfully update a destination file.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
- error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
-
- - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
- message.
-
- - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
-
- - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
- that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
-
- - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
- attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
- taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
+ - Added the --log-file=FILE option that can be used to tell any rsync to
+ output what it is doing to a log file. This works with a client rsync, a
+ non-daemon server rsync (see the man page for instructions), and also
+ allows the overriding of the rsyncd.conf setting when starting a daemon.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable
- io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also
- elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message.
-
- - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
- compatibility functions.
-
- - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
- buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
+ - 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.
- - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
- - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
- a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
- actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.