X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/5fdbb87df87673bbfdfd98032434e1370f2a16f2..0cbb958f34f7a0f3acb966118649c7601be53445:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fd5a8902..f3730c26 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,25 +4,16 @@ 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 - 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. - - - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest - 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 + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: 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 @@ -32,20 +23,128 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was receiving files.) - - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - or --size-only is specified. + - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we + update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now + notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file + instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file. + + - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. + + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). + + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - 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). + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). + + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). + + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. + + - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being + overly long. + + - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no + longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since + the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they + may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). ENHANCEMENTS: - - ... + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. + + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) + + - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output + from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) + + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer + command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. + + INTERNAL: + + - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several + changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() + calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to + an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum + values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some + functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that + could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive + that conditionally compiles the code. + + - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a + top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). + + - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. + The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function + was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that + any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. + + - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already + define it. DEVELOPER RELATED: - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. + The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code + that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes. + + - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work + better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.