X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/dcebf78fe0eec453a9e8fd4999536fd721d29eb4..8adc22e3623a42c42e08d6080bef416091cae620:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7380b073..2496fb7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: 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. + module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting. - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in the daemon's config file. + - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style + tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, regardless of how "use chroot" is set. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to