X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8ba802f3b4968c7c105ea017d0b20d56ec9d5d0f..342bfb5e23ebb372e0b1230f8124a4312f8a66d8:/OLDNEWS diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 9b946f78..bb0f17d2 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,114 @@ +NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.2: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has + "use chroot" enabled. + + - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code. + + - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a + --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the + destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied. + + - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev" + error. + + - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup. + + - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon- + exclude rule. + + - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no + files) to a differently named, non-existent directory. + + - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape. + + - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right + errno when a function failed. + + - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir. + + - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect(). + + - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a + newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten. + + - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or + a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes. + + - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older + rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit. + + - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count + (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid + checksum struct over the wire. + + - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded + arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude + check happen in the better place in the sending code. + + - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory(). + + - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file + offsets. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in + the daemon config file as "parameters". + + - The description of the --inplace option was improved. + + EXTRAS: + + - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows + an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that + sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some + compatibility improvements. + + - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the + listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect + a dot-dir arg. + + - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory + from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and + the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get + rebuild without cause. + + - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities + (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps. + + - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to + bleed-over into patches that follow. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.1: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the xattr code. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - None. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The RPM spec file was improved to install more useful files. + + - A few developer-oriented scripts were moved from the support dir + to the packaging dir. + + NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (3 Apr 2008) Protocol: 30 (unchanged) Changes since 3.0.0: @@ -270,6 +381,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's owner when rsync is running as the same user. + - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is + kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so + that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of + blocks increases. + ENHANCEMENTS: - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking @@ -2725,6 +2841,8 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + ?? ??? 2008 3.1.0 30 + 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30 08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30 03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30