-rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002)
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
- "Happy 26"
+ BUG FIXES:
- SECURITY FIXES:
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
- process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
- #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
- CAN-2002-0059)
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
- unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
- and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). (See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off.)
- * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
- "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
- on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
+ - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for
+ protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and
+ deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type.
- * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
- unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
- slash.
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
+
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
- * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
- rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
- against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
- than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
- what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
- to parse the output.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
- * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
- and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
- print an error message. (Colin Walters)
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
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