-rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
+Protocol: 27 (changed)
+Changes since 2.5.7:
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
+ change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
+
+ * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
+ Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
+ files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
+ 27. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
+ per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
+ provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
+ algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
+ checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
+
+ * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
+ unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
+
+ * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
+ sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
+ file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
+
+ * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
+ This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
+ matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
+ cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
+ what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
+ For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
+ [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
+ "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
+ versions.]
+
+ - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
+ does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
+
+ - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
+ the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
+ just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
+ to get the old behavior in all versions.]
+
+ - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
+ against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
+ there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
+ would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
+ "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
+ old behavior in all versions.]
+
+ * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
+ properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
+ user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
+ block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
+ Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
+ (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
+ mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
+ counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
+ file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
+ multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
+ (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+
+ * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
+
+ * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
+ consistent manner.
+
+ * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
+
+ * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
+ when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
+ and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
+
+ * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
+
+ * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
+ that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
+ Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
+ to not get backed up.
+
+ * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
+ 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
+ backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
+
+ * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
+
+ * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
+ what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
+ using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
+ special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
+ --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
+ same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
+ regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
+ readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
+ files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
+ if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
+ supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
+ defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
+ lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
+ Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
+ we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
+ (Wayne Davison)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.6:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
+ Russell, Andrea Barisani)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.5:
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
+ Zimmerman)
+
+ * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
+ specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
+ server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
+ as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
+
+ * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
+ destination field.
+
+ * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
+ rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
+ unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
+ (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
+ rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+
+ * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
+ Middleton)
+
+ * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
+ and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+
+ * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
+ terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
+
+ * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
+ (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
+ L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+
+ * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
+ in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
+ timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
+
+ * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+
+ * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+
+ * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
+ contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
+ list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
+ dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
+ processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
+ an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
+ broken. (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
+ (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
+ when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+
+ * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
+ Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+
+ * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
+
+ * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+
+ * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
+ (Jos Backus)
+
+ * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
+ means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.4:
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
+ otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
+
+ * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
+ accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
+ (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
+
+ * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
+ a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
+ similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
+ (Martin Pool)
+
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
+ slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
+ current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
+
+ * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
+
+ * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
+ Pool.)
+
+ * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
+ for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
+
+ * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
+ trailing slashes.
+ <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
+ (Martin Pool)
+
+ * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
+ Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
+ (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
+ not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
+
+ * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
+Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.2:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ * 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)
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
+ CAN-2002-0059)
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
+ "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
+
+ * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
+ on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
+
+ * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
+ unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
+
+ * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
+ slash.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * 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)
+
+ * 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 --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
+ and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
+
+ * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
+ print an error message. (Colin Walters)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
+Protocol: 26 (changed)
+Changes since 2.5.1:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
+ <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
+ careful about reading integers from the network.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
+
+ * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
+
+ * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
+ 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
+
+ * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
+
+ * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
+ connection.
+
+ * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
+ support mallinfo().
+
+ * "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.)
+
+ * 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)
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
+Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.5.0:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
+ Mackerras)
+
+ * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
+ (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
+ Hagino)
+
+ * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
+
+ * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
+
+ * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
+ Welbourne)
+
+ * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
+ multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
+ Faith)
+
+ * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
+ useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
+ debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
+
+ * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
+Protocol: 25 (changed)
+Changes since 2.4.6:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
* Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ to transfer fail to transfer.
* For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
* Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
* autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
* Platforms thought to work in this release:
* 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.
+\f
+Partial Protocol History
+ RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT PROTOCOL
+ 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40)
+ 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26
+ 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26
+ 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26
+ 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26
+ 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26
+ 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26
+ 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25
+ 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25
+ 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24
+ 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24
+ 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24
+ 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24
+ 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24
+ 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24
+ 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23
+ 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22
+ 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21
+ 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20
+ 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20
+ 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19
+ 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19
+ 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19
+ 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19
+ 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19
+ 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19
+ 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19
+ 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19
+ 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18
+ 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18
+ 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18
+ 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17
+ 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17
+ 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17
+ 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17
+ 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17
+ 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17
+ 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17
+ 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30)
+ 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20)
+
+* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.
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