-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
- file).
+ - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
+ once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
- setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp().
+ - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
+ --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
+ the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
+ these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
+ (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
+ incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+ how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
- - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
- FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
- necessary.
+ - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+ directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+ generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+ also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+ the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+ process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+ receiving files.)
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
- file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
- partial file.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Support an OS that uses mkdev() instead of makedev().
-
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
-
- SECURITY FIXES:
-
- - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
- rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
- transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
- file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
- disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
- rsync under is anything above "nobody".
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
-
- - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
- term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
- you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
- would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
- indicator that the verbose output is over.
-
- - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
- "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
-
- - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
- with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
- filename from causing an empty line to be output).
-
- - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
- options are specified is now the same both with and without the
- --backup-dir option.
-
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
+ relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
+ gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
+ destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
+ when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
- - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
+ trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
+ will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
+ even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
- - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
- terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+ - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+ chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+ from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+ over and over again).
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
- data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
- file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
- retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
- (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
- older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
- older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
- error.)
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+ it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+ to successfully update a destination file.
- - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
- is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
- overwrite the original file in the backup area).
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
+ merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
+ only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
+ done for global include/excludes).
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
- allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+ - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
+ the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
+ - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
+ the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
+ permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
+ problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
+ will not update a file that has no write permissions).
- - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
- for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
- "vanished".
+ - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
+ are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
- - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
- the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
- option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
+ directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
- (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
- wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
+ - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
+ overly long.
- - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
- returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
- intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
-
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
-
- - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
- implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
- that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
- implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
- suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
- help).
-
- - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
- messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
- die with a socket-write error).
-
- - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
- hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
- that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
- behavior).
-
- - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
- the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
-
- - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
- can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
- This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
- AIX and HP-UX.
-
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
-
- - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
- exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
- sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
-
- - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
- with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
-
- - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
- user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
- using the "2>&1").
+ - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
+ longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
+ the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
+ may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
- (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
- writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
- Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
- that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
- the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
-
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
-
- - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
- file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
- in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
- are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
- Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
-
- - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
-
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
-
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
-
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
-
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
-
- - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
- fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
- sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
- systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
- to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
- file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
- stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
- same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
-
- - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
- presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
- authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
- if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
- error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
- names.
-
- - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
- option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
-
- - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
- updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
- finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
- disallowed all group and world access.
-
- - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
- (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
-
- - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
- filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
- limit).
+ - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
+ can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
+ They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
+ page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
+ settings when starting a daemon.
+
+ - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
+ it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
+ alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
+
+ - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
+ the daemon's config file.
+
+ - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
+ deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
+ non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
+ up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
+ was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
+ a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
+ (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
+ still behaves in the same way as before.)
+
+ - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
+ the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
+ both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
+ command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
INTERNAL:
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
- lot of args.
+ - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
+ changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
+ calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
+ an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
+ values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
+ functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
+ could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
+ that conditionally compiles the code.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
- with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
+ top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
- - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
- IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
- handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
- them).
-
- - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
- crawl if the block size got too large).
-
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
-
- - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
- makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
- being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
- sides when sending the file-list).
-
- - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
- arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
- functionality into the latter.
-
- - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
- specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
- not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
-
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
- updated).
-
- - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
- target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP already set in the environment.
-
- - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
-
- - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
- be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
+ - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
+ The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
+ was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
+ any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
- new tests added.
+ - 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.
+
+ - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
+ better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - 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.