-rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.2:
- SECURITY FIXES:
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
- <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
- careful about reading integers from the network.
+ - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
+ multiple source directories were specified.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
+ over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
+ no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
+ specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
+ work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
+ don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+
+ - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+ (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
- * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
+ - 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.
- * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
+ - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
+ phase.
- * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
- 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
+ - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
+ the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
- * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
+ - 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".
- * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
+ batch-processing options.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
- connection.
+ - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
+ onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+ as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+
+ - Added the "write only" option to 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.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
+ and made the code easier to maintain.
+
+ - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
+ rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+
+ 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 timestamp used to always be
+ updated).
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
- support mallinfo().
+ - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
- * "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.)
+ - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
+ ones were removed.
- * 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)
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