X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9dd891bb28f6cc558b87905f1adc5e3d4180b6b3..7a176e87d56de890fed07b1621277ab74b21b706:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d6b9c6d..6548dd6b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,26 +1,28 @@ -rsync 2.5.2 (???) +rsync changes since last release - SECURITY FIXES: + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer - -- in some cases we were not sufficiently - careful about reading integers from the network. + * "make install-strip" works. (Greg Louis) - BUG FIXES: + * With --progress, if we've finished transferring a file, show the + time taken; otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron + Simpson) - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" + accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. + (Peter Breitenlohner) - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + 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) + + * 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)