X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/5fdbb87df87673bbfdfd98032434e1370f2a16f2..01d124d9e251317cdd9f12fb170a94e65f3c5e18:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fd5a8902..f4777124 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,24 +5,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer - sanitizes the symlink target strings. This means that the symlinks - values will now be accepted (and returned) with all their symlink info + 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. This makes a non-chroot daemon behave the same as a - chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a potential - problem where pre-existing symlinks could have escaped the module's - hierarchy. + 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 + potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the + module's hierarchy. - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest - options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's + 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 incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter - how deep the destination directory was in the hierarchy. + how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: or --size-only is specified. - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a - chroot. + 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). ENHANCEMENTS: