From 62ae66d43bfc48bbbfb35b5feac167338daec577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:05:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the security fix for patches/xattrs.diff. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4d7f332b..be5d9ba4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.7: - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the message. + - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options. + - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. @@ -51,6 +53,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.7: - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) compatibility functions. + - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential + buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code. + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of -- 2.34.1