1 NEWS for rsync 3.2.0 (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 a bug where the daemon would fail to write early fatal error
28 messages to the client, such as refused or unknown command-line options.
30 - Fixed the block-size validation logic when dealing with older protocols.
32 - Some rrsync fixes and enhancements to handle the latest options.
34 - Fixed a crash in the --iconv code.
36 - Fixed a bug in the writing of the batch.sh file (w/--write-batch) when
37 the source & destination args were not last on the command-line.
41 - Various checksum enhancements, including x86_64 optimizations for the
42 rolling checksum, optimizations for the MD5 checksums, the addition of
43 xxhash checksums, and a simple checksum negotation heuristic that will
44 ensure that it is easier to add improved checksum algorithms in the
45 future. Currently the x86_64 optimizations require the use of the
46 --enable-simd flag to configure, but they will probably be enabled by
47 default in the near future.
49 - Improved the --atimes patch and promoted it to be in the release.
51 - Added --open-noatime option to open files using O_NOATIME.
53 - Improved the --write-devices patch and promoted it to be in the release.
55 - Added openssl support to the rsync-ssl script via its renamed helper
56 script, rsync-ssl-rsh. Both bash scripts are now installed by default
57 (removing the install-ssl-client make target). Rsync was also enhanced
58 to set the RSYNC_PORT environment variable when running a daemon-over-rsh
59 script. Its value is the user-specified port number (set via --port or an
60 rsync:// URL) or 0 if the user didn't override the port.
62 - Added negated matching to the daemon's "refuse options" setting by using
63 match strings that start with a "!" (such as "!compress*").
65 - Added a status output based on a signal (via both SIGINFO & SIGVTALRM).
67 - Added a --copy-as=USER option to give some extra security to root-run
68 rsync commands into/from untrusted directories (such as backups and
71 - When resuming the transfer of a file in the --partial-dir, rsync will now
72 update that partial file in-place instead of creating yet another tmp
73 file copy. This requires both sender & receiver to be at least v3.2.0.
75 - Added support for RSYNC_SHELL & RSYNC_NO_XFER_EXEC environment variables
76 that affect the pre-xfer exec and post-xfer exec rsync daemon options.
78 - Fixed a problem with the --link-dest|--copy-dest code when --xattrs was
79 specified along with multiple alternate-destination directories (it could
80 possibly choose a bad file match while trying to find a better xattr
83 - Various manpage improvements.
87 - Silenced some annoying warnings about major()|minor() due to the autoconf
88 include-file check not being smart enough.
90 - Improved some configure checks to work better with strict C99 compilers.
92 - Some perl scripts were recoded into awk and python3.
94 - Some code typos were fixed (as pointed out by a Fossies run).