X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/a05e4fa512f9a0956b0c1049986d6fa01137b472..a1e0e45e0121de619175e86db2e34be62b862646:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2550a0c9..c9d6d240 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,36 +1,26 @@ -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. +rsync changes since last release BUG FIXES: + + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + * When -e is specified along with an rsyncd url, the client should + get a warning but it should not be treated as an error. (Bill + Nottingham) - * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62489 - ENHANCEMENTS: + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. - * 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)