+NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.5:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was
+ created from an incremental-recursion transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
+ multiple connections.
+
+ - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
+ have consecutive slashes in the value.
+
+ - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
+
+ - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
+ avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
+
+ - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
+ an I/O during the sending of the file list.
+
+ - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
+ start of the short options.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
+ 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
+
+ - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
+ receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
+ the transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
+
+ - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
+ rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
+
+ - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
+
+ - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
+ the --disable-iconv-open configure option.
+
+ - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or
+ the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a
+ crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero.
+ Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking.
+
+ - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short
+ options specified.
+
+ - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental
+ recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle
+ "redo" files properly (and without hanging).
+
+ - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot.
+
+ - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or
+ destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem
+ when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from
+ file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when
+ incremental recursion is active.
+
+ - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files.
+
+ - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command.
+
+ - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the
+ confusing "non-empty" qualifier.
+
+ - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of
+ getnameinfo().
+
+ - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of
+ consecutive sparse data.
+
+ - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a
+ client sender (which includes local copying).
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready
+ to remove a directory that was now gone.
+
+ - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings.
+
+ - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial-
+ transfer warning.
+
+ - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic
+ update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a
+ particular symlink idiom.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
+ allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
+
+ - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
+ of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
+
+ - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
+ particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
+ be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
+ the --remove-source-files was also specified.
+
+ - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
+ destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
+ a non-root copy can't affect.
+
+ - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
+ incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
+
+ - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
+ of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
+ of the transfer).
+
+ - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
+ this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
+ silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled
+ due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified).
+
+ - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
+ the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name
+ with the wrong charset conversion.
+
+ - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
+ the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
+
+ - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
+
+ - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number
+ (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
+ is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
+ user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
+ server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
+
+ - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
+ or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
+
+ - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync"
+ instead of "$RSYNC".
+
+ - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and
+ to do even more consistency checks on the files.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.2:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has
+ "use chroot" enabled.
+
+ - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code.
+
+ - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a
+ --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the
+ destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied.
+
+ - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev"
+ error.
+
+ - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup.
+
+ - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon-
+ exclude rule.
+
+ - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no
+ files) to a differently named, non-existent directory.
+
+ - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape.
+
+ - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right
+ errno when a function failed.
+
+ - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir.
+
+ - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect().
+
+ - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a
+ newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
+ a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
+
+ - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older
+ rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit.
+
+ - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
+ (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
+ checksum struct over the wire.
+
+ - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded
+ arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude
+ check happen in the better place in the sending code.
+
+ - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory().
+
+ - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file
+ offsets.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in
+ the daemon config file as "parameters".
+
+ - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows
+ an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that
+ sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
+ compatibility improvements.
+
+ - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the
+ listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect
+ a dot-dir arg.
+
+ - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory
+ from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and
+ the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get
+ rebuild without cause.
+
+ - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities
+ (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps.
+
+ - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to
+ bleed-over into patches that follow.
+
+\f
NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008)
Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
Changes since 3.0.1:
- Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's
owner when rsync is running as the same user.
+ - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is
+ kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so
+ that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of
+ blocks increases.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
\f
Partial Protocol History
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
+ ?? ??? 2008 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31
+ 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30
+ 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30
+ 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30
29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30
08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30
03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30
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