X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/74be4fc399887ee6beeda794b16dcdf2497b6550..740819ef7b3b96451e16b2fa3891d46cfc73ec64:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5e6061f6..594a2571 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) +rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- ANNOUNCEMENTS @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) 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. Also + includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the + Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH + portability project, and OpenBSD. + ENHANCEMENTS * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are @@ -47,6 +53,8 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) 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. @@ -54,6 +62,20 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked to transfer fail to transfer - * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison. + * 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. + + 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. - * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.