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13 <H2 align="center">Welcome to the rsync web pages</H2>
15 rsync is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</A>
16 utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely
17 available under the <A HREF="GPL.html">GNU General Public
18 License</A> and is currently being maintained by
19 <a href="http://opencoder.net/">Wayne Davison</a>.
21 <p><i>If you are running
22 (1) an xattr-enabled rsync older than 3.0.2,
23 (2) a writable rsync daemon older than 3.0.0,
24 or (3) a version of rsync older than 2.6.6, please see the
25 <a href="security.html" class=security>rsync security advisory page</a>.</i>
30 <h3>The latest development version</h3>
32 <p>If you're curious about the changes going into the next version of rsync,
33 you can view the <a href="/ftp/unpacked/rsync/NEWS">NEWS file from the source
34 repository</a> to see a summary of the current changes. Also available are the
35 <a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync.html">repository's rsync manpage</a> and the
36 <a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsyncd.conf.html">repository's rsyncd.conf
37 manpage</a>. See the <a href="/download.html">download page</a> for more info
38 on grabbing the development version.
43 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.7 released</h3>
44 <i class=date>December 31th, 2009</i>
46 <p>Rsync version 3.0.7 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
48 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
49 for the details of what changed since 3.0.6.
50 The latest manpages are also available for both
51 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
52 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
54 <p>The source tar is available here:
55 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz">rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz</a>
56 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
57 with a tar file of the "patches" directory now released in a separate file:
58 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.7.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.0.7.tar.gz</a>
59 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.7.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
60 and the diffs from version 3.0.6 are available here:
61 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.6-3.0.7.diffs.gz">rsync-3.0.6-3.0.7.diffs.gz</a>
62 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.6-3.0.7.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
65 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.6 released</h3>
66 <i class=date>May 8th, 2009</i>
68 <p>Rsync version 3.0.6 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
70 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
71 for the details of what changed since 3.0.5.
74 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.5 released</h3>
75 <i class=date>December 28th, 2008</i>
77 <p>Rsync version 3.0.5 has been released. This is another bug-fix release.
79 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
80 for the details of what changed since 3.0.4.
83 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.4 released</h3>
84 <i class=date>September 6th, 2008</i>
86 <p>Rsync version 3.0.4 has been released. This is a bug-fix release with the
87 only enhancement being the adding of a way to interact with an
88 overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of the -e
91 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
92 for the details of what changed since 3.0.3.
95 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.3 released</h3>
96 <i class=date>June 29th, 2008</i>
98 <p>Rsync version 3.0.3 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that has
99 no new features (though it does have one new script in the support directory).
101 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
102 for the details of what changed since 3.0.2.
105 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.2 released</h3>
106 <i class=date>April 8th, 2008</i>
108 <p>Rsync version 3.0.2 has been released. This is a
109 <a href="security.html#s3_0_2" class=security>security release</a>
110 that fixes a potential buffer-overflow issue.
112 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
113 for the details of what changed since 3.0.1.
116 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.1 released</h3>
117 <i class=date>April 3rd, 2008</i>
119 <p>Rsync version 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release, which also
120 includes fixes/improvements for several issues in the daemon-exclude code.
122 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
123 for the details of what changed since 3.0.0.
126 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.0 released</h3>
127 <i class=date>March 1st, 2008</i>
129 <p>Rsync version 3.0.0 is finally here! This is a feature release that
130 also includes quite a few bug fixes.
132 <p>The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the
134 incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers) and the
135 official arrival of several other new features, including ACL support, extended
136 attribute support, filename character-set conversion, etc.
138 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
139 for the details of what changed since 2.6.9.
142 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.9 released</h3>
143 <i class=date>November 6th, 2006</i>
145 <p>Rsync version 2.6.9 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix
146 release with a few minor new features.
148 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
149 for the details of what changed since 2.6.8.
152 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.8 released</h3>
153 <i class=date>April 22th, 2006</i>
155 <p>Rsync version 2.6.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that
156 primarily addresses an exclude problem that affected the --relative option,
157 but also includes a <a href="security.html#s2_6_8" class=security>security fix</a> for
158 the xattrs.diff patch (which is not an
159 official part of rsync, but some packagers include it in their release).
161 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
162 for the details of what changed since 2.6.7.
165 <h3>Rsync 2.6.7 released</h3>
166 <i class=date>March 11th, 2006</i>
168 <p>Rsync version 2.6.7 has been released. This release has both several new
169 features and the usual accompaniment of bug fixes.
171 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
172 for the details of what changed since 2.6.6.
175 <h3>Rsync 2.6.6 released</h3>
176 <i class=date>July 28th, 2005</i>
178 <p>Rsync version 2.6.6 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release
179 which contains a <a href="security.html#s2_6_6" class=security>security fix</a>
180 to handle a null-pointer bug that turned up in rsync's version of zlib
181 1.1.4 (this is not the recent zlib 1.2.2 security fix, which did not
182 affect rsync) and to squash a few other minor bugs. To deal with the
183 zlib issue, rsync has been upgraded to include zlib 1.2.3.
185 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
186 for the details of what changed since 2.6.5.
189 <h3>Rsync 2.6.5 released</h3>
190 <i class=date>June 1st, 2005</i>
192 <p>Rsync version 2.6.5 has been released. This release is primarily a bug-fix
193 release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled)
194 release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements.
196 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
197 for the details of what changed since 2.6.4.
200 <h3>Rsync 2.6.4 released</h3>
201 <i class=date>March 30th, 2005</i>
203 <p>Rsync version 2.6.4 has been released. This release combines quite a
204 few new features, some improved delete efficiency, and the usual array of
207 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
208 for the details of what changed since 2.6.3.
211 <h3>Rsync 2.6.3 released</h3>
212 <i class=date>September 30th, 2004</i>
214 <p>Rsync version 2.6.3 has been released. It contains several new features
215 and quite a few bug fixes, including a <a href="security.html#s2_6_3" class=security>security
216 fix</a> for a patch-sanitizing bug in the daemon code.
218 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
219 details of what changed since 2.6.2.
222 <h3>Rsync 2.6.2 released</h3>
223 <i class=date>April 30th, 2004</i>
225 <p>Rsync version 2.6.2 has been released. It is a bugfix release that mainly
226 fixes <b>a bug with the --relative option (-R) in 2.6.1</b>
227 that could cause files to be transferred incorrectly. This only affected a
228 source right at the root of the filesystem, such as "/" or "/*" (if you
229 first "cd /" and then copy from ".", it would not tickle the bug).
231 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
232 details of what else was fixed.
235 <h3>Rsync 2.6.1 released</h3>
236 <i class=date>April 26th, 2004</i>
238 <p>Rsync version 2.6.1 has been released. It is primarily a performance
239 release that requires less memory to run, makes fewer write calls to the socket
240 (lowering the system CPU time), does less string copying (lowering the user CPU
241 time), and also reduces the amount of data that is transmitted over the wire.
242 There have also been quite a few bug fixes, including a
243 <a href="security.html#s2_6_1" class=security>security fix</a> for a daemon problem when chroot
244 is not enabled. See the
245 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the full
249 <h3>One Cygwin hang-problem resolved</h3>
251 <p>The problem with rsync hanging at the end of the transfer on
252 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> had been previously traced to a
253 signal-handling bug in their compatibility DLL. This bug appears to now be
254 fixed in DLL version 1.5.7-1, and Cygwin users are reporting that upgrading the
255 DLL removes the hang-at-end-of-transfer problem for their existing rsync executable.
256 (Note that this doesn't solve a hang that some folks see in the middle of a
257 transfer -- using daemon mode instead of ssh can work around that one.)
260 <h3>Rsync 2.6.0 released</h3>
261 <i class=date>January 1st, 2004</i>
263 <P> Two important things to note in the new release:
267 <li>The default remote shell is now "ssh" unless you tell configure you want to
268 make something else the default.
270 <li>Some bug fixes in the include/exclude code, while making things work
271 properly, have resulted in some user-visible changes for certain wildcard
272 strings. Read the BUG FIXES section in the
273 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">NEWS file</a> to see if
274 any of these changes apply to you.
275 (Most people should be unaffected.)
279 <p>One other item of note is that the oft-requested option "--files-from" is now
280 available. This option lets you specify a list of files to transfer, and can
281 be much more efficient than a recursive descent using include/exclude
282 statements (if you know in advance what files you want to transfer). The list
283 of files can come from either side of the connection, so it is possible for a
284 server to provide the file-list that lets someone grab a server-specified set of
285 files, for example. See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync man page</a>
288 <p>For a full list of changes in version 2.6.0, see the
289 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>.
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