X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/d313ae7d23d2afde67e88bacb9c2262d46adc2de..fcb69e5cdcfdfd0bdcea2127e5f4c9133a2282b9:/OLDNEWS diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 9e572fc5..a8ea8bf0 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,185 @@ +rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002) + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; + otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) + + * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" + accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. + (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) + + * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of + a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, + similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. + (Martin Pool) + + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process + slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the + current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) + + * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) + + * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin + Pool.) + + * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even + for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) + + * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle + trailing slashes. + + (Martin Pool) + + * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) + + +rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002) + + "Imitation lizard skin" + + BUG FIXES: + + * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew + Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) + (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can + not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) + + * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) + + +rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002) + + "Happy 26" + + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server + process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug + #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE + CAN-2002-0059) + + * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message + unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr + and resulted in the wrong data being copied. + + * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of + "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. + + * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc + on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". + + * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client + unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) + + * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing + slash. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that + rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link + against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) + + * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather + than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to + what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try + to parse the output. + + * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) + + * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work + and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) + + * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, + print an error message. (Colin Walters) + +rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) + + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + + * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + + * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh + connection. + + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). + + * "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) + +rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03) + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul + Mackerras) + + * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. + (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" + Hagino) + + * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) + + * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) + + * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) + + * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward + Welbourne) + + * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a + multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (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. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) + + * Clearer error messages for some conditions. + + rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) ANNOUNCEMENTS