X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/870dddc5eb59aa4615f4fe335d9ae83226604260..de3438407c4f976c55172093795b87e49cb4a6e2:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e6f53437..4d7f332b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,84 +1,58 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.5: - - SECURITY FIXES: - - - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more - secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did - not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's - zlib 1.1.4. +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - 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). + - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any + wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative + is in effect. - - 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). + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). - - 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 problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as + that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position + beyond the failed read's data. - - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- - time were not honoring the --modify-window option. + - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored + in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by + init). - - 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). + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. - - 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. + - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as + fifos) from being linked. - - Rsync now outputs a targeted error if both the source and destination - path appear to be a remote filespecs rather than treating the dest as - a very strange local path and (most likely) generating an error about - non-existent directories. + - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at + configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest + creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - The configure script now checks for lutimes() and lchmod() so that - rsync can make use of them to update attributes of symlinks (on - systems that support this). - - - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a - per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). - - - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" - and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a - per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode - transfer. + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options - that take args (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. + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. - - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a - normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer. + - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex + that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. - - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or - improved. + - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. - BUILD CHANGES: + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - 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). + - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) + compatibility functions. - - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of - -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of + a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).