X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4eb61975b7807e025a9567fba5879dd551d292bb..bb7c4fa3612a6202e92611acca7f25c0d8bcf799:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92d47b39..7e2fa06f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,78 +1,30 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- +rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet) - 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. - - 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. + * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server + process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) 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.) + * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message + unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr + and resulted in the wrong data being copied. - PLATFORMS: + * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of + "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc + on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + ENHANCEMENTS: - TESTING: + * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather + than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to + what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try + to parse the output. - * 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. + * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) + * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work + and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)