X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/bd1574b2084d846e46a3ed2ae31c032bb4edfb93..ecc7623e7faf75f6ba3dd7b5a416c52e2346ac7d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f3be0cd..bd6f9efd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,68 +1,58 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. - - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). - - - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and - the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be - terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. - - - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will - no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was - specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to - work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders - don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) - - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). - - - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config - items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module - allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. - - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. + - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer + sanitizes the symlink target strings. This means that each symlink's + value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info + intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any + dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are + manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top + of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the + same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a + potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the + module's hierarchy. + + - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest + options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's + destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these + options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since + these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter + how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. + + - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) + + - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I + or --size-only is specified. + + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps + from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone + over and over again). + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. - - - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. - - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. - - - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - - INTERNAL: - - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. - - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. - - BUILD CHANGES: - - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. - - - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated). + - ... DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. + + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.