1 NEWS for rsync 3.1.4 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 31 (unchanged)
7 - Avoid a potential out-of-bounds read in daemon mode if argc can be made
10 - Fix the default list of skip-compress files for non-daemon transfers.
12 - Fix xattr filter rules losing an 'x' attribute in a non-local transfer.
14 - Avoid an error when a check for a potential fuzzy file happens to
15 reference a directory.
17 - Make the atomic-rsync helper script have a more consistent error-exit.
19 - Make sure that a signal handler calls _exit() instead of exit().
21 - Various zlib fixes, including security fixes for CVE-2016-9843,
22 CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9841, and CVE-2016-9840.
24 - Fixed an issue with --remove-source-files not removing a source symlink
25 when combined with --copy-links.
27 - Fixed the block-size validation logic when dealing with older protocols.
29 - Some rrsync fixes and enhancements to handle the latest options.
33 - Improved the --atimes patch and promoted it to be in the release.
35 - Added --set-noatime option to open files using O_NOATIME.
37 - Improved the --write-devices patch and promoted it to be in the release.
39 - Added openssl support to the rsync-ssl script via its renamed helper
40 script, rsync-ssl-rsh. Install both bash scripts by default now
41 (removing the install-ssl-client make target). Rsync was also enhanced
42 to set the RSYNC_PORT environment variable when running a daemon-over-rsh
43 script. Its value is the user-specified port number (set via --port or an
44 rsync:// URL) or 0 if the user didn't override the port.
46 - Added a status output based on a signal (via both SIGINFO & SIGVTALRM).
48 - Added a --copy-as=USER option to give some extra security to root-run
49 rsync commands into/from untrusted directories (such as backups and
52 - Added support for RSYNC_SHELL & RSYNC_NO_XFER_EXEC environment variables
53 that affect the pre-xfer exec and post-xfer exec rsync daemon options.
55 - Fixed a crash in the --iconv code.
57 - Fixed a problem with the --link-dest|--copy-dest code when --xattrs was
58 specified along with multiple alternate-destination directories (it could
59 possibly choose a bad file match while trying to find a better xattr
62 - Various manpage improvements.
66 - Silenced some annoying warnings about major()|minor() due to the autoconf
67 include-file check not being smart enough.
69 - Improved some configure checks to work better with strict C99 compilers.
71 - Some perl scripts were recoded into awk and python3.
73 - Some code typos were fixed (as pointed out by a Fossies run).