X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4dcf3697ff627f0e219b83f10df117cbd38184e3..577ab12ce5bed9cadd25aab34ced12d55f82f66d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 96ba3e95..6e26e22a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,109 +1,141 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- +NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7 +Protocol: 27 (changed) +Changes since version 2.5.6: - ANNOUNCEMENTS + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. + Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the + --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - NEW FEATURES + * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison + 27. (J.W. Schultz) - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). + The per-file checksum size is determined according + to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which + reduces the probability of rsync algorithm + corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 + checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + BUG FIXES: + + * for protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the + block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. + Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. + (Craig Barratt) + + * for protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in + mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit + counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for + file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) + + * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versios and + multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. + (Wayne Davison) + + * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. + + * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p -o and -g. + + + INTERNAL: - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped + supporting. (J.W. Schultz) - * 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. + * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) - ENHANCEMENTS - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. +NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since version 2.5.5: - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - * 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. + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + Zimmerman) - * 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. + * 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) - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that + unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. + (J.W. Schultz) - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an + rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + + * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon + Middleton) + + * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" + and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + + * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line + terminations. (J.W. Schultz) + + * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. + (Dave Dykstra) 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. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer - - * 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.) - - PLATFORMS: - - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) - - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. - - * Platforms thought to work in this release: - - 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 - - TESTING: - - * 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. + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) + + * 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) + + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + + * 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) + + * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple + dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + + * 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) + + * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely + broken. (Dave Dykstra) + + * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. + (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + + * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories + when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + + * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + + INTERNAL: + + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin + Pool, Nelson Beebe) + + * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + + * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + + * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus) + + * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this + means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)