-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*-
+NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7
+Protocol: 27 (changed)
+Changes since version 2.5.6:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
+ Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
+ --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
- NEW FEATURES
+ * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison
+ 27. (J.W. Schultz)
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length).
+ The per-file checksum size is determined according
+ to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which
+ reduces the probability of rsync algorithm
+ corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
+ checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * for protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
+ block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
+ Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
+ (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * for protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
+ mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
+ counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
+ file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versios and
+ multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
+ (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+
+ * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p -o and -g.
+
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
+ supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
- * 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>
- * 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.
+NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since version 2.5.5:
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
+ Zimmerman)
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
+ specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
+ server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
+ as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
- * 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.
+ * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
+ destination field.
- * 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.
+ * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
+ rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
+ unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
+ (J.W. Schultz)
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
+ rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
+ Middleton)
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
+ and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+
+ * 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:
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+ * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
+ L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+
+ * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
+ in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
+ timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
+
+ * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+
+ * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+
+ * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
+ 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)
+
+ * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
+ broken. (Dave Dykstra)
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
+ (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
+ when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
- * 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.)
+ INTERNAL:
- PLATFORMS:
+ * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
+ Pool, Nelson Beebe)
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
- TESTING:
+ * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
- * 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.
+ * 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)
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