X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/52fa4d7893e6fc5503e7db91c78ffa3176186845..bec617b934dc2ef90b7acd1c7ef4b5db74821e91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 431f32f5..91220e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,139 +1,62 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) -Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since 2.5.7: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.5: - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to - change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". - - * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. - Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the - files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - - * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version - 27. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The - per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm - 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) - - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. + SECURITY FIXES: - * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the - sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the - file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. - - * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. + - 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: - * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the - matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not - cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like - what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) - - - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. - For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. - [Upgrade any "*" wildcards to "**" to get the old behavior in - all versions.] - - - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo - does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] - - - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of - the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, - just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" - to get the old behavior in all versions.] - - - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched - against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if - there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" - would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as - "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the - old behavior in all versions.] - - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) + - 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). - * 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) + - 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). - * 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) + - 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. - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) + - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- + time were not honoring the --modify-window option. - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. + - 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). - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. + - 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. - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. - - * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) - - * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log - when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. - - * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. - - * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file - that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and - Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files - to not get backed up. - - * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode - 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the - backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). - - * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. - - * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly - what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when - using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing - special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or - --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the - same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a - regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and - readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated - files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a + per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). - * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings - if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. + - 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. - INTERNAL: + - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix + mentioned above). - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) + BUILD CHANGES: - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) + - 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). - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) + - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of + -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. - * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a - lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. - Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value - we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). - (Wayne Davison)