X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/900454132e5328932ec309564bddb492f44bba8a..45ba206a947ddd611ad3cdabdbbacc2e32fca913:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2680b525..f4777124 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,164 +1,55 @@ -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7 -Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since version 2.5.6: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. - Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the - --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - - * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison - 27. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). - The per-file checksum size is determined according - to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which - reduces the probability of rsync algorithm - corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 - checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) - - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) - - * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the - block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. - Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. - (Craig Barratt) - - * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in - mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit - counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for - file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) - - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) - - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. - - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. - - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. - - * Fixed some exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - For instance, "**/foo" now matches at the root, "CVS/R*" now - matches beyond the root, and "foo**bar" is matched against the - path, not just the trailing name. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) - - * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file - that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and - Wayne Davison) - - INTERNAL: - - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) - - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: + - 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, any option that tells a + non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as + --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain + to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the + module's path. Both these changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the + same 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). ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the - specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) - server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such - as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) - - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. - - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) - - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) - - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) - - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) - - * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not - in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents - timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) - - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - - * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that - contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file - list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) - - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) - - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) - - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) - - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) - - INTERNAL: - - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) - - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + - ... - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - 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 included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.