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If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot + disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run + rsync under is anything above "nobody". + + OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): + + - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the + term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If + you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script + would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the + indicator that the verbose output is over. + + - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change + "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". + + - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned + with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a + filename from causing an empty line to be output). + + - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose + options are specified is now the same both with and without the + --backup-dir option. + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and + multiple source directories were specified. + + - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the + checksums. + + - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories + over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + + - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and + the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be + terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. + + - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed + data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis + file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer + retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. + (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be + older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and + older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read + error.) + + - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option + is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to + overwrite the original file in the backup area). + + - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config + items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module + allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + + - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a + phase. + + - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves + the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. + + - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error + for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file + "vanished". + + - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling + the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks + option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. + + - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as + refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client + (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket + wasn't in the right state for the message to get through). + + - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now + returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are + intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this). + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the + batch-processing options. + + - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to + implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error + that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 + implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might + suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will + help). + + - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error + messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just + die with a socket-write error). + + - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are + hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure + that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename() + behavior). + + - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when + the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. + + - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we + can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered. + This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as + AIX and HP-UX. + + - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy + (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + + - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not + exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be + sent instead of dying with a chdir() error. + + - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die + with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish. + + - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the + user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g. + using the "2>&1"). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to + (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- + writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial + Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable + that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as + the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory. + + - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory + onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it + as matching a normal directory from the sender. + + - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination + file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data + in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there + are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). + Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). + + - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. + + - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) + and documented all these options in the man page. + + - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less + bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of + values. + + - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and + SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. + + - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. + + - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, + fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer + sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different + systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier + to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data + file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on + stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the + same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed. + + - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its + presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to + authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get + if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real + error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module + names. + + - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match + option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. + + - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time + updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the + finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions + disallowed all group and world access. + + - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL + (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir). + + - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000 + filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired + limit). + + INTERNAL: + + - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory + and made the code easier to maintain. + + - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a + lot of args. + + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf() + with strerror() as an arg. + + - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both + IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file + handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of + them). + + - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a + crawl if the block size got too large). + + - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). + + - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions + makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still + being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both + sides when sending the file-list). + + - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer + arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's + functionality into the latter. + + - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are + specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is + not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver). + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, + including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + + - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the + proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be + updated). + + - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip + target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems + have $STRIP already set in the environment. + + - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. + + - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to + be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it). + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few + new tests added. + + - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted + ones were removed. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.1: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative + is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were + affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list + item when requesting changes from the sender. + + - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to + better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system. + + - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages + rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix + will be sought in the future.) + + - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid + code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.) + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used + and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the + broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an + NFS build-dir. + + - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define + AI_NUMERICHOST. + + - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that + don't support __attribute__. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1. + + - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004) +Protocol: 28 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.0: + + SECURITY FIXES: + + - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when + chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync + daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the + user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody". + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket, + and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details). + + - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a + "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. + (Bardur Arantsson) + + - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer + we are, including both a count of files transferred and a + percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also + shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time + values. + + - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis- + understood features more clearly. + + BUG FIXES: + + - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or + --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the + referent file is on a different filesystem. + + - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when + (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was + specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on + the destination and -g was specified. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause + the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get + overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). + + - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of + each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer + with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file + than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered + over the wire for that file. + + - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines. + (Jay Fenlason) + + - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a + per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one + directory (not all following directories too). The items are also + now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing. + + - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part + can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to + find the HOST, not the first). + + - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users: + (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name + for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in + that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer + attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission + to set. + + - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. + + - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount- + point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that + it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount- + point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the + original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be + ignoring. + + - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename + when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names + that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). + + - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with + or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as + --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative + one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless. + Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the + module's base dir when chroot is not enabled. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync + versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without + telling us that --backup-dir was specified. + + - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process + now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems + that have a length field in their socket structs. + + - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending + files to an rsync daemon. + + INTERNAL: + + - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large + speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) + + - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some + significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets. + + - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent. + + - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. + (J.W. Schultz) + + - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up + the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) + + - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the + group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This + prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new + hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically + earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the + receiving side. + + - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released + 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25 + (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, + severally) + + - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). + + - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). + + - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. + + - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). + + - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list + during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory + bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). + Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, + resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving + side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions + are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way + for the entire transfer. + + - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation + pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits + freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) + + - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes + (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and + the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the + "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from + the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator + over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and + verbose --stats output). + + - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a + little more optimized. + + - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as + separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28). + Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit + number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more + compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the + connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the + binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in + fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is + now available. + + - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made + things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient. + + - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now + handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the + wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the + batch code is still considered to be experimental.) + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to + override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. + + - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". + + - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with + sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. + + - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones + that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) +Protocol: 27 (changed) +Changes since 2.5.7: + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to + change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". + + * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. + Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the + files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) + + * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version + 27. (J.W. Schultz) + + * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The + per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm + 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. + + * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the + sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the + file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. + + * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. + This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the + matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not + cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like + what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) + + - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. + For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. + [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the + "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all + versions.] + + - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo + does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] + + - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of + the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, + just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" + to get the old behavior in all versions.] + + - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched + against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if + there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" + would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as + "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the + old behavior in all versions.] + + * 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 file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) + + * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log + when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" + and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. + + * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. + + * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file + that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and + Wayne Davison) + + * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files + to not get backed up. + + * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode + 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the + backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). + + * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. + + * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly + what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) + + * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when + using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) + + * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing + special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or + --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the + same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a + regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) + + * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and + readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated + files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) + + * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings + if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. + + 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) + + * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a + lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. + Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value + we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). + (Wayne Davison) + + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.6: + + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul + Russell, Andrea Barisani) + + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.5: + + 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) + + * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus) + + * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this + means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.4: ENHANCEMENTS: @@ -38,16 +775,15 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) -rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002) -protocol: 26 (unchanged) - - "Imitation lizard skin" +NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.3: BUG FIXES: * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) - + ENHANCEMENTS: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) @@ -57,10 +793,9 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) -rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002) -protocol: 26 (unchanged) - - "Happy 26" +NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.2: SECURITY FIXES: @@ -73,7 +808,7 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) - * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message + * 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. @@ -94,7 +829,7 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * 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) - + * 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 @@ -108,8 +843,10 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, print an error message. (Colin Walters) -rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) -protocol: 26 (changed) + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) +Protocol: 26 (changed) +Changes since 2.5.1: SECURITY FIXES: @@ -136,7 +873,7 @@ protocol: 26 (changed) connection. * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + support mallinfo(). * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, @@ -145,15 +882,17 @@ protocol: 26 (changed) * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) - + * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) -rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03) -protocol: 25 (unchanged) + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002) +Protocol: 25 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.0: + + BUG FIXES: - BUG FIXES: - * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul Mackerras) @@ -175,18 +914,19 @@ protocol: 25 (unchanged) ENHANCEMENTS: * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a - multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik - Faith) - + multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik + Faith) + * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also - useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a - debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) + useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a + debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) * Clearer error messages for some conditions. -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -protocol: 25 (changed) +NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) +Protocol: 25 (changed) +Changes since 2.4.6: ANNOUNCEMENTS @@ -248,7 +988,7 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + to transfer fail to transfer. * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an @@ -259,7 +999,7 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. * Platforms thought to work in this release: @@ -302,41 +1042,50 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) build farm. Partial Protocol History - DATE RELEASE PROTOCOL - 2003/01/26 20:11:16 release-2-5-6 26 - 2002/02/23 00:17:50 release-2-5-3 26 - 2002/01/25 23:00:21 release-2-5-2 26 - 2001/12/18 06:47:40 release-2-5-1 25 - release-2-4-6 24 - 2000/08/16 08:34:18 release-2-4-5 24 - 2000/07/29 04:52:05 release-2-4-4 24 - 2000/03/30 14:15:00 release-2-4-2 24 - 2000/01/29 23:49:36 release-2-4-1 24 - 2000/01/29 02:56:37 release-2-4-0 23 - release-2-3-3 21 - 1999/06/26 01:06:38 release-2-3-2 21 - release-2-3-1 20 - 1999/03/15 21:17:59 release-2-3-0 20 - 1998/11/15 01:21:42 release-2-2-1 19 - 1998/11/03 07:08:28 release-2-2-0 19 - 1998/09/09 06:31:14 release-2-1-1 19 - 1998/07/17 14:43:05 release-2-0-19 19 - 1998/06/18 12:17:24 release-2-0-18 19 - 1998/06/18 09:51:56 release-2-0-17 19 - 1998/06/01 03:42:22 release-2-0-16 19 - 1998/05/27 13:47:34 release-2-0-13 19 - 1998/05/26 14:19:00 release-2-0-12 18 - 1998/05/21 05:55:33 release-2-0-11 18 - 1998/05/18 08:20:34 release-2-0-9 18 - 1998/05/17 05:56:33 release-2-0-8 17 - 1998/05/15 07:34:21 release-2-0-2 17 - 1998/05/13 15:44:11 release-2-0-0 17 - 1998/04/17 06:07:26 release-1-7-4 17 - 1998/04/05 06:43:55 release-1-7-2 17 - 1998/03/26 04:18:57 release-1-7-0 17 MAX=30 - 1998/01/13 15:57:32 release-1-6-9 15 MAX=20 - 1997/12/17 11:07:30 release-1-6-7 14 - 1997/12/15 18:36:21 release-1-6-4 14 - -* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocl change was committed - to cvs, not the release date. + RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + 30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29 + 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28 + 30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28 + 26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28 + 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40) + 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26 + 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26 + 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26 + 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26 + 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26 + 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26 + 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25 + 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25 + 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24 + 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24 + 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24 + 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24 + 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24 + 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24 + 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23 + 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22 + 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21 + 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20 + 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20 + 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19 + 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19 + 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19 + 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19 + 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19 + 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19 + 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19 + 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19 + 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18 + 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18 + 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18 + 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17 + 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17 + 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17 + 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17 + 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17 + 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17 + 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17 + 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30) + 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20) + +* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.