-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
+Changes since version 2.5.5:
ENHANCEMENTS:
* Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
- * Set the default value of --modify-window to 2 on Cygwin. (Max Bowsher)
+ * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
+ terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
+ (Dave Dykstra)
BUG FIXES:
contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
+ dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
+
* Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
broken. (Dave Dykstra)
* Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
- (Sviatoslav Sviridov)
+ (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
+ when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
INTERNAL:
* Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
+
* More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
+
* Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
(Jos Backus)
+
+ * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
+ means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)