X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9be3ba223c72f3e193404f503f10acece5d646e7..fb859e5674f3794abaa674114b9d767411fe005d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f885ab66..e84a1ace 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,39 +1,30 @@ -rsync 2.5.3 (26 Jan 2002) +rsync changes since last release - SECURITY FIXES: - - * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer - -- in some cases we were not sufficiently - careful about reading integers from the network. - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; + otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" + accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. + (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) - * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. - * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + BUG FIXES: - ENHANCEMENTS: + * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process + slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the + current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) - * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh - connection. + * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus) - * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin + Pool.) - * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress - visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, - rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the - file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) + * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even + for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) - * 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) + * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle + trailing slashes. + + (Martin Pool)