X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9dd891bb28f6cc558b87905f1adc5e3d4180b6b3..ef86d7473669c65984c2cfbed9de708ff0fa63d7:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d6b9c6d..c680c317 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,26 +1,25 @@ -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. + * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; + otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) - BUG FIXES: + * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" + accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. + (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + BUG FIXES: - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + * 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) - ENHANCEMENTS: + * 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)