-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.7:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - 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.
+ - Fixed the sanitizing of acceptable ../ dirs in 2 cases where an rsync
+ daemon is receiving files when "use chroot" is not enabled and the
+ destination dir is not at the top of the module's path: both the value
+ of a symlink and the arg of the --FOO-dest options (i.e. --link-dest,
+ --copy-dest, and --compare-dest) now know how deep the destination dir
+ is in the module, and allow a safe number of ../ references instead of
+ preventing the references from leaving the destination hierarchy (use
+ the age-old --safe-links for that behavior).
- - 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).
+ - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
+ or --size-only is specified.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
- easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+ - ...
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - 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 (which is only supported by a daemon at present).
+ - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+ make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
+
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.