X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/f97f6bcd3a87215885035d8688aecc60c420ec93..8adc22e3623a42c42e08d6080bef416091cae620:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5a20de6f..2496fb7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,69 +1,86 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did - not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the - rsyncd.conf file. - - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the - basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i - is in effect. - - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. - - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). - - - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete - processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a - newline. - - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer - to it as a "file". + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + + - 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. 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 + 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.) + + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). + + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. + + - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I + is specified. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. + + - 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 --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead - of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any - actual updating of the destination. - - - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped - characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output - using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". - - - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include - some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, - password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - - - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that - it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we - really did expect the socket to close). - - - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall - back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally - silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. - INTERNAL: + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style + tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, regardless of how "use chroot" is set. - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - 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. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that - the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s - presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.