X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/fbe57fdc955de2c5d59cbfcb4ca67b98b706c35e..051f5df5261ccdff85fd4a9704738088f813797f:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3341eb62..8cac8e6a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,61 +1,70 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. - - - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, - we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination - hostspec as a filename. - - - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with - permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when - the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. - - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. + - 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 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.) + + - 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 + regardless of the file's modify-time. + + - 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 --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the - preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" - and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a - per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode - transfer. - - - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in - the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs - should start. For example, if you specify a source path of - rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only - replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing - dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). + - 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. - - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override - unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka - "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of - file ownership that is implied by -a. + - 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.) - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - INTERNAL: + - 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. - - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where - MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit - with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.