-rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
- SECURITY FIXES:
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
- process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson)
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+ is in effect.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
- * 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 a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection).
- * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
- "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
- * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
- on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
- unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
- slash.
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
+ easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
- * 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.
+ - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
- * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
- and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
- print an error message. (Colin Walters)
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff