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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 3.0.9pre2 released</h3>
44 <i class=date>September 10th, 2011</i>
46 <p>Rsync version 3.0.9pre2 is now available for release testing. This is a
49 <p>Please test this new release and send email to the rsync mailing list with
50 any questions, comments, or bug reports.
52 <p>You can read about all the changes in the
53 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2-NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
54 The pre-release version of the manpages are also available for both
55 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
56 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
58 <p>The source tar is available here:
59 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz">rsync-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz</a>
60 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
61 with a tar file of the "patches" directory now released in a separate file:
62 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz</a>
63 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
64 the diffs from version 3.0.9pre1 are available here:
65 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre1-3.0.9pre2.diffs.gz">rsync-3.0.9pre1-3.0.9pre2.diffs.gz</a>
66 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre1-3.0.9pre2.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
67 and the diffs from version 3.0.8 are available here:
68 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.8-3.0.9pre1.diffs.gz">rsync-3.0.8-3.0.9pre1.diffs.gz</a>
69 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.8-3.0.9pre1.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
72 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.8 released</h3>
73 <i class=date>March 26th, 2011</i>
75 <p>Rsync version 3.0.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
77 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
78 for the details of what changed since 3.0.7.
79 The latest manpages are also available for both
80 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
81 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
83 <p>The source tar is available here:
84 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8.tar.gz">rsync-3.0.8.tar.gz</a>
85 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
86 with a tar file of the "patches" directory now released in a separate file:
87 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.8.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.0.8.tar.gz</a>
88 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.8.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
89 and the diffs from version 3.0.7 are available here:
90 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.7-3.0.8.diffs.gz">rsync-3.0.7-3.0.8.diffs.gz</a>
91 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.7-3.0.8.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
94 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.7 released</h3>
95 <i class=date>December 31th, 2009</i>
97 <p>Rsync version 3.0.7 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
99 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
100 for the details of what changed since 3.0.6.
103 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.6 released</h3>
104 <i class=date>May 8th, 2009</i>
106 <p>Rsync version 3.0.6 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
108 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
109 for the details of what changed since 3.0.5.
112 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.5 released</h3>
113 <i class=date>December 28th, 2008</i>
115 <p>Rsync version 3.0.5 has been released. This is another bug-fix release.
117 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
118 for the details of what changed since 3.0.4.
121 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.4 released</h3>
122 <i class=date>September 6th, 2008</i>
124 <p>Rsync version 3.0.4 has been released. This is a bug-fix release with the
125 only enhancement being the adding of a way to interact with an
126 overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of the -e
129 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
130 for the details of what changed since 3.0.3.
133 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.3 released</h3>
134 <i class=date>June 29th, 2008</i>
136 <p>Rsync version 3.0.3 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that has
137 no new features (though it does have one new script in the support directory).
139 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
140 for the details of what changed since 3.0.2.
143 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.2 released</h3>
144 <i class=date>April 8th, 2008</i>
146 <p>Rsync version 3.0.2 has been released. This is a
147 <a href="security.html#s3_0_2" class=security>security release</a>
148 that fixes a potential buffer-overflow issue.
150 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
151 for the details of what changed since 3.0.1.
154 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.1 released</h3>
155 <i class=date>April 3rd, 2008</i>
157 <p>Rsync version 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release, which also
158 includes fixes/improvements for several issues in the daemon-exclude code.
160 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
161 for the details of what changed since 3.0.0.
164 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.0 released</h3>
165 <i class=date>March 1st, 2008</i>
167 <p>Rsync version 3.0.0 is finally here! This is a feature release that
168 also includes quite a few bug fixes.
170 <p>The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the
172 incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers) and the
173 official arrival of several other new features, including ACL support, extended
174 attribute support, filename character-set conversion, etc.
176 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
177 for the details of what changed since 2.6.9.
180 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.9 released</h3>
181 <i class=date>November 6th, 2006</i>
183 <p>Rsync version 2.6.9 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix
184 release with a few minor new features.
186 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
187 for the details of what changed since 2.6.8.
190 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.8 released</h3>
191 <i class=date>April 22th, 2006</i>
193 <p>Rsync version 2.6.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that
194 primarily addresses an exclude problem that affected the --relative option,
195 but also includes a <a href="security.html#s2_6_8" class=security>security fix</a> for
196 the xattrs.diff patch (which is not an
197 official part of rsync, but some packagers include it in their release).
199 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
200 for the details of what changed since 2.6.7.
203 <h3>Rsync 2.6.7 released</h3>
204 <i class=date>March 11th, 2006</i>
206 <p>Rsync version 2.6.7 has been released. This release has both several new
207 features and the usual accompaniment of bug fixes.
209 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
210 for the details of what changed since 2.6.6.
213 <h3>Rsync 2.6.6 released</h3>
214 <i class=date>July 28th, 2005</i>
216 <p>Rsync version 2.6.6 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release
217 which contains a <a href="security.html#s2_6_6" class=security>security fix</a>
218 to handle a null-pointer bug that turned up in rsync's version of zlib
219 1.1.4 (this is not the recent zlib 1.2.2 security fix, which did not
220 affect rsync) and to squash a few other minor bugs. To deal with the
221 zlib issue, rsync has been upgraded to include zlib 1.2.3.
223 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
224 for the details of what changed since 2.6.5.
227 <h3>Rsync 2.6.5 released</h3>
228 <i class=date>June 1st, 2005</i>
230 <p>Rsync version 2.6.5 has been released. This release is primarily a bug-fix
231 release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled)
232 release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements.
234 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
235 for the details of what changed since 2.6.4.
238 <h3>Rsync 2.6.4 released</h3>
239 <i class=date>March 30th, 2005</i>
241 <p>Rsync version 2.6.4 has been released. This release combines quite a
242 few new features, some improved delete efficiency, and the usual array of
245 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
246 for the details of what changed since 2.6.3.
249 <h3>Rsync 2.6.3 released</h3>
250 <i class=date>September 30th, 2004</i>
252 <p>Rsync version 2.6.3 has been released. It contains several new features
253 and quite a few bug fixes, including a <a href="security.html#s2_6_3" class=security>security
254 fix</a> for a patch-sanitizing bug in the daemon code.
256 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
257 details of what changed since 2.6.2.
260 <h3>Rsync 2.6.2 released</h3>
261 <i class=date>April 30th, 2004</i>
263 <p>Rsync version 2.6.2 has been released. It is a bugfix release that mainly
264 fixes <b>a bug with the --relative option (-R) in 2.6.1</b>
265 that could cause files to be transferred incorrectly. This only affected a
266 source right at the root of the filesystem, such as "/" or "/*" (if you
267 first "cd /" and then copy from ".", it would not tickle the bug).
269 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
270 details of what else was fixed.
273 <h3>Rsync 2.6.1 released</h3>
274 <i class=date>April 26th, 2004</i>
276 <p>Rsync version 2.6.1 has been released. It is primarily a performance
277 release that requires less memory to run, makes fewer write calls to the socket
278 (lowering the system CPU time), does less string copying (lowering the user CPU
279 time), and also reduces the amount of data that is transmitted over the wire.
280 There have also been quite a few bug fixes, including a
281 <a href="security.html#s2_6_1" class=security>security fix</a> for a daemon problem when chroot
282 is not enabled. See the
283 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the full
287 <h3>One Cygwin hang-problem resolved</h3>
289 <p>The problem with rsync hanging at the end of the transfer on
290 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> had been previously traced to a
291 signal-handling bug in their compatibility DLL. This bug appears to now be
292 fixed in DLL version 1.5.7-1, and Cygwin users are reporting that upgrading the
293 DLL removes the hang-at-end-of-transfer problem for their existing rsync executable.
294 (Note that this doesn't solve a hang that some folks see in the middle of a
295 transfer -- using daemon mode instead of ssh can work around that one.)
298 <h3>Rsync 2.6.0 released</h3>
299 <i class=date>January 1st, 2004</i>
301 <P> Two important things to note in the new release:
305 <li>The default remote shell is now "ssh" unless you tell configure you want to
306 make something else the default.
308 <li>Some bug fixes in the include/exclude code, while making things work
309 properly, have resulted in some user-visible changes for certain wildcard
310 strings. Read the BUG FIXES section in the
311 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">NEWS file</a> to see if
312 any of these changes apply to you.
313 (Most people should be unaffected.)
317 <p>One other item of note is that the oft-requested option "--files-from" is now
318 available. This option lets you specify a list of files to transfer, and can
319 be much more efficient than a recursive descent using include/exclude
320 statements (if you know in advance what files you want to transfer). The list
321 of files can come from either side of the connection, so it is possible for a
322 server to provide the file-list that lets someone grab a server-specified set of
323 files, for example. See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync man page</a>
326 <p>For a full list of changes in version 2.6.0, see the
327 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>.
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