X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9624b8642670a3bd79b90e1c2c0ebbc5bf1b635b..2220ec0a69cc9bb9c2d4f022fb5fec26fd9846e6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b87a6aad..c261dc70 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,122 +1,53 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about - it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only - sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). - - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. - - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) - - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. - - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. - - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. - - - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the - referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the - user and group of a symlink. - - - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time - rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - - - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to - backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. + - 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 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. - - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir and enhanced.) - - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) - - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. - - - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, - --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. - - - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories - without recursion. - - - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to - put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any - option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a - non-recursive listing). - - - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the - modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a - really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through - the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory - times. - - - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files - from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the - transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than - the default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). - - - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter - rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling - that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory - filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). - This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing - include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older - versions. - - - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some - files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at - once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses - --link-dest. - - INTERNAL: + - ... - - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over - the socket. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. + - 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. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.