From 2955529bb40af8424f97fb18262e3cdb1453f6c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 01:06:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Rolling over the NEWS file for the next version. --- NEWS | 152 +++------------------------------------------------- OLDNEWS | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fe78a99c..038729b8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,158 +1,20 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.8: +Changes since 2.6.9: BUG FIXES: - - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will - once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - - 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 when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we - update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now - notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file - instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file. - - - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path - relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option - gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. - - - 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. - - - 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. - - - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir - merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and - only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is - done for global include/excludes). - - - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from - the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of - the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write - permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a - problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace - will not update a file that has no write permissions). - - - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we - are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. - - - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created - directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. - - - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being - overly long. - - - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no - longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since - the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they - may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). + - ... ENHANCEMENTS: - - 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. - - - 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.) - - - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in - the daemon's config file. - - - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now - deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all - non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already - up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that - was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind - a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. - (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and - still behaves in the same way as before.) - - - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output - from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) - - - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in - the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in - both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer - command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. + - ... INTERNAL: - - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several - changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() - calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to - an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum - values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some - functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that - could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive - that conditionally compiles the code. - - - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a - top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). - - - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. - The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function - was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that - any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. - - - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already - define it. + - Upgraded the popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of string- + handling functions. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - 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. - The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code - that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes. - - - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to - maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info - without actually running as root. It does this using a special - extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on - acls.diff). - - - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work - better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. - - - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have - consistent opening comments. + - ... diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 037979eb..c8310321 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,164 @@ +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: + + BUG FIXES: + + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + + - 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 when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we + update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now + notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file + instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file. + + - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). + + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). + + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. + + - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being + overly long. + + - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no + longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since + the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they + may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - 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. + + - 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.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) + + - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output + from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) + + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer + command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. + + INTERNAL: + + - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several + changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() + calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to + an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum + values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some + functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that + could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive + that conditionally compiles the code. + + - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a + top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). + + - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. + The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function + was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that + any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. + + - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already + define it. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - 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. + The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD + compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended + file-attributes. + + - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to + maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info + without actually running as root. It does this using a special + extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on + acls.diff). + + - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work + better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. + + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions. + + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.7: @@ -2082,6 +2243,7 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + ?? ??? 2007 3.0.0 ?? ??? ???? 30 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29 11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29 -- 2.34.1