-rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?)
+rsync 2.5.2 (???)
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser by Paul
- Mackerras.
+ SECURITY FIXES:
- * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. Thankyou
- to YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
- Hagino.
+ * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
+ <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
+ careful about reading integers from the network.
- * Various fixes for IPv6 support by Dave Dykstra.
+ BUG FIXES:
- * rsync.1 typo fix by Matt Kraai.
+ * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
- * Test suite typo fixes by Tom Schmidt.
+ * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
- * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. Thanks to Edward
- Welbourne.
+ * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
+ 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
- * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. Thankyou to Jeff
- Garzik.
+ * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
+
+ * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
- multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. Based
- on a patch by Rik Faith.
-
- * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
- useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
- debugger. Thanks to Max Bowsher and Jos Backus.
+ * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
+ connection.
+
+ * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
+ support mallinfo().
+
+ * "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.)
- * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
+ * 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)