X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4dcf3697ff627f0e219b83f10df117cbd38184e3..0e9480317dbb5b8003535a769f4a03bc720d5f5f:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 96ba3e95..4c62d821 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,109 +1,39 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- +rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) - ANNOUNCEMENTS + SECURITY FIXES: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. - - NEW FEATURES - - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging - - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. - - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. - - * 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. - - ENHANCEMENTS - - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. - - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. - - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. - - * 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. - - * 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. - - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. - - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. - - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. - - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. BUG FIXES: - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - * 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.) + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. - PLATFORMS: + * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Platforms thought to work in this release: + * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh + connection. - 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-UX 10.10 gcc - 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 + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). - TESTING: + * "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.) - * 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. + * 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)