From 276877cf7716de2aae167ab927a8294360505e8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:14:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Aged news from NEWS to OLDNEWS. --- NEWS | 108 +----------------------- OLDNEWS | 249 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 967f64ab..ef9f12a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -NEWS for rsync version 2.6.0 +NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since version 2.5.7: +Changes since 2.5.7: ENHANCEMENTS: @@ -132,107 +132,3 @@ Changes since version 2.5.7: Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). (Wayne Davison) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7: -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.6: - - SECURITY: - - * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul - Russell, Andrea Barisani) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the - specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) - server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such - as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) - - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. - - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) - - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) - - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) - - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) - - * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not - in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents - timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) - - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - - * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that - contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file - list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) - - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) - - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) - - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) - - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) - - INTERNAL: - - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) - - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) - - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) - - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) - - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) - - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 288ec782..0b04b4ca 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,5 +1,110 @@ -rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002) -protocol: 26 (unchanged) +NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.6: + + SECURITY FIXES: + + * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul + Russell, Andrea Barisani) + + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.5: + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + Zimmerman) + + * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the + specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) + server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such + as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) + + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. + + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + + * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that + unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. + (J.W. Schultz) + + * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an + rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + + * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon + Middleton) + + * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" + and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + + * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line + terminations. (J.W. Schultz) + + * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. + (Dave Dykstra) + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) + + * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not + in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents + timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) + + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + + * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that + contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file + list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) + + * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple + dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + + * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child + processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing + an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) + + * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely + broken. (Dave Dykstra) + + * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. + (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + + * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories + when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + + * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + + INTERNAL: + + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin + Pool, Nelson Beebe) + + * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + + * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + + * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus) + + * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this + means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.4: ENHANCEMENTS: @@ -38,16 +143,15 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) -rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002) -protocol: 26 (unchanged) - - "Imitation lizard skin" +NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.3: BUG FIXES: * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) - + ENHANCEMENTS: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) @@ -57,10 +161,9 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) -rsync 2.5.3 (11 March 2002) -protocol: 26 (unchanged) - - "Happy 26" +NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) +Protocol: 26 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.2: SECURITY FIXES: @@ -73,7 +176,7 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) - * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message + * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr and resulted in the wrong data being copied. @@ -94,7 +197,7 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) - + * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try @@ -108,8 +211,10 @@ protocol: 26 (unchanged) * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, print an error message. (Colin Walters) -rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) -protocol: 26 (changed) + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) +Protocol: 26 (changed) +Changes since 2.5.1: SECURITY FIXES: @@ -136,7 +241,7 @@ protocol: 26 (changed) connection. * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + support mallinfo(). * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, @@ -145,15 +250,17 @@ protocol: 26 (changed) * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) - + * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) -rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03) -protocol: 25 (unchanged) + +NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002) +Protocol: 25 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.5.0: + + BUG FIXES: - BUG FIXES: - * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul Mackerras) @@ -175,18 +282,19 @@ protocol: 25 (unchanged) ENHANCEMENTS: * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a - multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik - Faith) - + 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) + useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a + debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) * Clearer error messages for some conditions. -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -protocol: 25 (changed) +NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) +Protocol: 25 (changed) +Changes since 2.4.6: ANNOUNCEMENTS @@ -248,7 +356,7 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + to transfer fail to transfer. * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an @@ -259,7 +367,7 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. * Platforms thought to work in this release: @@ -302,41 +410,46 @@ protocol: 25 (changed) build farm. Partial Protocol History - DATE RELEASE PROTOCOL - 2003/01/26 20:11:16 release-2-5-6 26 - 2002/02/23 00:17:50 release-2-5-3 26 - 2002/01/25 23:00:21 release-2-5-2 26 - 2001/12/18 06:47:40 release-2-5-1 25 - release-2-4-6 24 - 2000/08/16 08:34:18 release-2-4-5 24 - 2000/07/29 04:52:05 release-2-4-4 24 - 2000/03/30 14:15:00 release-2-4-2 24 - 2000/01/29 23:49:36 release-2-4-1 24 - 2000/01/29 02:56:37 release-2-4-0 23 - release-2-3-3 21 - 1999/06/26 01:06:38 release-2-3-2 21 - release-2-3-1 20 - 1999/03/15 21:17:59 release-2-3-0 20 - 1998/11/15 01:21:42 release-2-2-1 19 - 1998/11/03 07:08:28 release-2-2-0 19 - 1998/09/09 06:31:14 release-2-1-1 19 - 1998/07/17 14:43:05 release-2-0-19 19 - 1998/06/18 12:17:24 release-2-0-18 19 - 1998/06/18 09:51:56 release-2-0-17 19 - 1998/06/01 03:42:22 release-2-0-16 19 - 1998/05/27 13:47:34 release-2-0-13 19 - 1998/05/26 14:19:00 release-2-0-12 18 - 1998/05/21 05:55:33 release-2-0-11 18 - 1998/05/18 08:20:34 release-2-0-9 18 - 1998/05/17 05:56:33 release-2-0-8 17 - 1998/05/15 07:34:21 release-2-0-2 17 - 1998/05/13 15:44:11 release-2-0-0 17 - 1998/04/17 06:07:26 release-1-7-4 17 - 1998/04/05 06:43:55 release-1-7-2 17 - 1998/03/26 04:18:57 release-1-7-0 17 MAX=30 - 1998/01/13 15:57:32 release-1-6-9 15 MAX=20 - 1997/12/17 11:07:30 release-1-6-7 14 - 1997/12/15 18:36:21 release-1-6-4 14 - -* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocl change was committed - to cvs, not the release date. + RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT PROTOCOL + 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40) + 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26 + 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26 + 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26 + 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26 + 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26 + 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26 + 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25 + 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25 + 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24 + 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24 + 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24 + 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24 + 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24 + 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24 + 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23 + 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22 + 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21 + 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20 + 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20 + 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19 + 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19 + 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19 + 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19 + 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19 + 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19 + 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19 + 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19 + 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18 + 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18 + 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18 + 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17 + 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17 + 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17 + 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17 + 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17 + 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17 + 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17 + 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30) + 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20) + +* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS. -- 2.34.1