X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/bbd6f4ba8e1a36de8a3cae4b013c99ffa77d9f8d..9dd891bb28f6cc558b87905f1adc5e3d4180b6b3:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fc916f4c..0d6b9c6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,23 +1,26 @@ -rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?) +rsync 2.5.2 (???) - ENHANCEMENTS: + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. + + BUG FIXES: - * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a - multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. Based - on a patch by Rik Faith. - - * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also - useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a - debugger. Thanks to Max Bowsher and Jos Backus. + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - BUG FIXES: - - * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. Thankyou - to YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" - Hagino. + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - * rsync.1 typo fix by Matt Kraai. + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fix for segfault in rsyncd.conf parser by Paul Mackerras. + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). - * Test suite typo fixes Tom Schmidt. + * "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.)