-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.7:
- 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:
- - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+ - 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