X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/45ba206a947ddd611ad3cdabdbbacc2e32fca913..8adc22e3623a42c42e08d6080bef416091cae620:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f4777124..2496fb7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,23 +4,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + - 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 + intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any + dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are + manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top + of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the + same way 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. + module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting. - - 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 + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: 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 module's hierarchy. @@ -32,17 +34,46 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was receiving files.) + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). + + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. + - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - or --size-only is specified. + is specified. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone over and over again). + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - ... + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. + + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style + tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, regardless of how "use chroot" is set. DEVELOPER RELATED: