X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b8b0668e85eb3b3350904068eb8d29d499d4e980..bec617b934dc2ef90b7acd1c7ef4b5db74821e91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c9db11ad..91220e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,12 +2,18 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.5: + SECURITY FIXES: + + - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression + code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse + the --compress option. + BUG FIXES: - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list. This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was - combined with --list-dest). + combined with --link-dest). - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right: without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though @@ -17,7 +23,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.5: totally unchanged items). - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup - item so that we don't get an already-exists error. + item so that we don't get an "already exists" error. - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- time were not honoring the --modify-window option. @@ -28,6 +34,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.5: ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version). + - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, + we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination + hostspec as a filename. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a @@ -38,6 +48,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.5: also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing of a pull operation that has multiple sources. + - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix + mentioned above). + BUILD CHANGES: - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and