X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/7d81641065fb40dadd6c02527998dba54cf1b3ca..2765f2e4a7293a72869d97bad96ef4ed032ee5c5:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7fcb24ef..58da234b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,46 +1,89 @@ -rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: - SECURITY FIXES: + BUG FIXES: - * (CVE CAN-2002-0059) + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. - * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server - process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug - #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash. - BUG FIXES: + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. + + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. + + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - * 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. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of - "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. - * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc - on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". - * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client - unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. - * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing - slash. + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. + + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. + + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. ENHANCEMENTS: - * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that - rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link - against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). + + - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped + characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output + using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". + + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, + password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) + + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). + + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally + silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). + + INTERNAL: + + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + + BUILD CHANGES: - * 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. + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work - and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). - * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, - print an error message. (Colin Walters) + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.