-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.7:
never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+ beyond the failed read's data.
+
- 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 or by
init).
- If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
instead of silently ignoring the option.
+ - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+ fifos) from being linked.
+
+ - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+ configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+ creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
- When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
message.
+ - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
+
- The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable
+ io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also
+ elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message.
+
+ - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+ compatibility functions.
+
+ - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
+ buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
+
- The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of