- - 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).
+ - Fixed a bug in incremental recursion transfers where an I/O error might
+ not get noticed in time for the receiving side to disable deletions
+ (requires protocol 31).
+
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
+
+ - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
+ its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
+
+ - Improved abnormal-exit error messages. This should help the client side
+ to receive errors from the server when it is exiting abnormally, and
+ should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly closed" exit
+ when the closed connection is really expected.