X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/e24c0b98d704bb16bd02e4708b38bc19be61e089..9dd891bb28f6cc558b87905f1adc5e3d4180b6b3:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5f7e94b9..0d6b9c6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,33 +1,26 @@ -rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?) +rsync 2.5.2 (???) - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul - Mackerras) + SECURITY FIXES: - * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. - (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" - Hagino) + * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer + -- in some cases we were not sufficiently + careful about reading integers from the network. - * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) + BUG FIXES: - * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) + * Fix possible string mangling in log files. - * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) + * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. - * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward - Welbourne) - - * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) + * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with + 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. 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) + * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that + support mallinfo(). - * Clearer error messages for some conditions. + * "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.)