X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9dd891bb28f6cc558b87905f1adc5e3d4180b6b3..088aac85971f3f1571c7f90569c95d5025b1fd82:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d6b9c6d..8c54134c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,26 +1,13 @@ -rsync 2.5.2 (???) - - 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. - - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. +rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet) ENHANCEMENTS: - * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + * 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 + to parse the output. + + * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) - * "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.) + * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work + and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)