X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/a05e4fa512f9a0956b0c1049986d6fa01137b472..59c95e4243749273fe91f8197a39f89e4d905cb8:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2550a0c9..fe1e75f1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,36 +1,50 @@ -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. + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - BUG FIXES: + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + Zimmerman) - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the + specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) + server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such + as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that + unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. + (J.W. Schultz) - * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) - ENHANCEMENTS: + * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not + in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents + timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) + + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + + * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that + contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file + list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) - * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh - connection. + INTERNAL: - * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin + Pool, Nelson Beebe) - * "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.) + * More test cases. (Martin Pool) - * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental - but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus)