+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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 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
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
+
+ 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
+ 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).
+
+\f
NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.6:
user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
using the "2>&1").
+ - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from got passed to a daemon.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
- Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending
files to an rsync daemon.
+ - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from was sent to a server
+ sender.
+
INTERNAL:
- Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large
\f
Partial Protocol History
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
+ 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29
11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29
28 Jul 2005 2.6.6 29
01 Jun 2005 2.6.5 29
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