X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/1f1fbe187e2727566e84598f1d94412799c18653..bec617b934dc2ef90b7acd1c7ef4b5db74821e91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f44216c7..91220e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,66 +1,62 @@ -rsync changes since last release +NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.5: - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the - specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) - server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such - as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) + SECURITY FIXES: - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - 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. - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + BUG FIXES: - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - 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). - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - 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). - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - 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. - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- + time were not honoring the --modify-window option. - * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not - in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents - timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) + - 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). - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - 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. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that - contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file - list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a + per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) + - 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. - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix + mentioned above). - INTERNAL: + BUILD CHANGES: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - 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). - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of + -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus)