X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b2f02464985e9a9e0b8416635ab2d592e31c5096..0e9480317dbb5b8003535a769f4a03bc720d5f5f:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 13cf800d..4c62d821 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,75 +1,39 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) +rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) - ANNOUNCEMENTS + SECURITY FIXES: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. - - NEW FEATURES - - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging - - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. - - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. - - ENHANCEMENTS - - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. - - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. - - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. - - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. - - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. - - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. - - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. - - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. - - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. BUG FIXES: - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison. + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) + * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. - PLATFORMS: + * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh + connection. - TESTING: + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. + * "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.) + * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental + but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) + + * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with + Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)