-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+rsync 2.5.2 (???)
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ SECURITY FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
+ <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
+ careful about reading integers from the network.
- NEW FEATURES
-
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
-
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
-
- * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
- sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
- Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
-
- ENHANCEMENTS
-
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
-
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
-
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
-
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- 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
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
+ BUG FIXES:
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
+ 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
- BUG FIXES:
+ * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
+ connection.
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
+ support mallinfo().
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
+ * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
+ visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
+ rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
+ file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
- * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.
+ * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
+ but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
+
+ * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
+ Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)