X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/2f8dc29182506d5afec3ed3fb30ce635afc187d1..3d6feada8a8462c38cc2f70ec5f2fb00eee58f31:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7b5d132f..cc8a300d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,15 +1,39 @@ -rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?) +rsync 2.5.2 (???) + + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + + * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + + * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) ENHANCEMENTS: - * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a - multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. Based - on a patch by Rik Faith. + * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh + connection. - BUG FIXES: - - * rsync.1 typo fix by Matt Kraai + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). - * Fix for segfault in rsyncd.conf parser by Paul Mackerras + * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress + visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, + rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the + file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) - * Test suite typo fixes Tom Schmidt + * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental + but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) + + * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with + Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)