X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8a1f3153b93c4ac8ef91fbb49a5b20fb03cec997..ecc7623e7faf75f6ba3dd7b5a416c52e2346ac7d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a777269b..bd6f9efd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,123 +1,58 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the - files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). - - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. - - - 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. - - - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with - permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when - the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. - - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. - - - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to - require at least -vv for the error to be seen). - - - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle - the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, - --link-dest, or --compare-dest. + - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer + 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, all arg paths and any + dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are + manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top + of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the + same way 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 + 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 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 + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + 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. + + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + 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. 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). - - - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the - transfer. - - - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size - to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples - of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). - - - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the - --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - - - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the - preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when - possible). - - - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using - --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - - - 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. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables - that are set with information about the transfer.) - - - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in - the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs - should start. For example, if you specify a source path of - rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only - replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing - dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). - - - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override - unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka - "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of - file ownership that is implied by -a. - - - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions - to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will - now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - - - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to - better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: - "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred - file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. - - - Some minor documentation improvements. - - - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - - INTERNAL: - - - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where - MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit - with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. - - - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining - the VA_COPY macro. - - - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory - recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - ... DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO - configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of - the newly patched feature. + - 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. + + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.