X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3d6feada8a8462c38cc2f70ec5f2fb00eee58f31..bec617b934dc2ef90b7acd1c7ef4b5db74821e91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cc8a300d..91220e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,39 +1,62 @@ -rsync 2.5.2 (???) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.5: SECURITY FIXES: - * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer - -- in some cases we were not sufficiently - careful about reading integers from the network. + - 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. BUG FIXES: - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + - 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). - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + - 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). - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + - 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. - * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- + time were not honoring the --modify-window option. - * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + - 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). + + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh - connection. + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a + per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). + + - 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. + + - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix + mentioned above). + + BUILD CHANGES: - * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + - 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). - * "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.) + - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of + -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. - * 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)