X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/053f3a831defdbd30f15e58fd0cb23b3f71c5af7..bec617b934dc2ef90b7acd1c7ef4b5db74821e91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c020267..91220e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,114 +1,62 @@ -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*- +NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.5: - ANNOUNCEMENTS + SECURITY FIXES: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression + code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse + the --compress option. - NEW FEATURES - - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging - - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + BUG FIXES: - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list. + This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances + (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was + combined with --link-dest). - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also - includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the - Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH - portability project, and OpenBSD. + - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right: + without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though + it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the + file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of + a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other + totally unchanged items). - ENHANCEMENTS + - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup + item so that we don't get an "already exists" error. - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- + time were not honoring the --modify-window option. - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being + unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the + directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that + ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing + destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version). - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, + we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination + hostspec as a filename. - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a + per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options + that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was + also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing + of a pull operation that has multiple sources. - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix + mentioned above). - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + BUILD CHANGES: - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and + NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we + find in the /etc/group file). - BUG FIXES: + - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of + -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer - - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) - - PLATFORMS: - - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) - - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. - - * Platforms thought to work in this release: - - Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc - Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc - Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc - FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc - Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc - NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc - NetBSD Current i386 cc - OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc - OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc - OpenBSD Current i386 cc - RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc - RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ - RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc - RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc - Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) - Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc - Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc - Solaris 8 i386 gcc - SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 - SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc - powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc - - TESTING: - - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm.