-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.5:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ SECURITY FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression
+ code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse
+ the --compress option.
- NEW FEATURES
-
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
-
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
-
- * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
- sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
- Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
-
- ENHANCEMENTS
-
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
-
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
-
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
-
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- file to get cleaned out by another process.
-
- * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
-
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
-
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
+ This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
+ (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
+ combined with --link-dest).
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
+ without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though
+ it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
+ file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
+ a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
+ totally unchanged items).
- BUG FIXES:
+ - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
+ item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
+ time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being
+ unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the
+ directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that
+ ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing
+ destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version).
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
- overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
- ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
+ - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
+ per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
- PLATFORMS:
+ - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
+ that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
+ also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
+ of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix
+ mentioned above).
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- TESTING:
+ - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
+ NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
+ find in the /etc/group file).
- * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
- test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
- build farm.
+ - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
+ -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
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