-rsync 2.5.2 (???)
-
- SECURITY FIXES:
-
- * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
- <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
- careful about reading integers from the network.
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
BUG FIXES:
- * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
+ - 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).
- * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
+ - 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.
- * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
- 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
+ - 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).
- * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
- connection.
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
- * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
- support mallinfo().
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * "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.)
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
- but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
+ - 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).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff