X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/028245a57b37d759532f53c3c08109b423cdef1a..2220ec0a69cc9bb9c2d4f022fb5fec26fd9846e6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 70380652..c261dc70 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,92 +1,53 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did - not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the - rsyncd.conf file. - - - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash. - - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the - basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i - is in effect. - - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. - - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). - - - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete - processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a - newline. - - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer - to it as a "file". - - - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any - generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to - the file by the destination filename. - - - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. - - - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked - to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest - of the cluster. - - - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync - no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the - receiving side. - - - Fixed a compatibility problem when usig --cvs-ignore (-C) and sending - files to an older rsync without using --delete. + - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer + sanitizes the symlink target strings. This means that each symlink's + value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info + intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, any option that tells a + non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as + --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain + to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the + module's path. Both these changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the + same as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a + potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the + module's hierarchy. + + - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest + options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's + destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these + options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since + these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter + how deep the destination directory was in the hierarchy. + + - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) + + - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I + or --size-only is specified. + + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead - of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any - actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all - the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you - are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - - - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped - characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output - using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". - - - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include - some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, - password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - - - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that - it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we - really did expect the socket to close). - - - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall - back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally - silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). - - INTERNAL: - - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). - - BUILD CHANGES: + - ... - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that - the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s - presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.