SECURITY FIXES:
- - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression
- code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse
- the --compress option.
+ - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more
+ secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did
+ not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's
+ zlib 1.1.4.
BUG FIXES:
we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
hostspec as a filename.
+ - Rsync now outputs a targeted error if both the source and destination
+ path appear to be a remote filespecs rather than treating the dest as
+ a very strange local path and (most likely) generating an error about
+ non-existent directories.
+
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).
+
+ - The configure script now checks for lutimes() and lchmod() so that
+ rsync can make use of them to update attributes of symlinks (on
+ systems that support this).
+
- Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
+ - 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.
+
- The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
- that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
+ that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
- - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix
- mentioned above).
+ - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a
+ normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer.
+
+ - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or
+ improved.
BUILD CHANGES: