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13 <H2 align="center">Welcome to the rsync web pages</H2>
15 rsync is an <A HREF="https://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="https://opencoder.net/">Wayne Davison</a>.
21 <p>A full changelog of all the releases, including upcoming releases, is in the
22 <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
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29 <h3>Rsync version 3.3.0 released</h3>
30 <i class=date>April 6th, 2024</i>
32 <p>Rsync version 3.3.0 has been released.
33 This is a bug-fix release.
35 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.3.0">3.3.0 NEWS</a> for a detailed changelog.
36 The latest manpages are also available for:<ul>
37 <li><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1"><b>rsync</b>(1)</a>
38 <li><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync-ssl.1"><b>rsync-ssl</b>(1)</a>
39 <li><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsyncd.conf.5"><b>rsyncd.conf</b>(5)</a>
40 <li><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rrsync.1"><b>rrsync</b>(1)</a>
43 <p>The source tar is available here:
44 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.3.0.tar.gz">rsync-3.3.0.tar.gz</a>
45 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.3.0.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
46 with a tar file of the "rsync-patches" repository released in a separate file:
47 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.3.0.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.3.0.tar.gz</a>
48 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.3.0.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
49 and the diffs from version 3.2.2 are available here:
50 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0.diffs.gz">rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0.diffs.gz</a>
51 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
54 <h3>Rsync version 3.3.0pre1 released</h3>
55 <i class=date>April 29th, 2023</i>
57 <p>Rsync version 3.3.0pre1 is now available for release testing. This is
58 mainly bug fixes, with the increased version bump being a delayed reaction
59 to some of the recent larger changes that have happened.
61 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.3.0">3.3.0 NEWS</a> for a detailed changelog.
63 <p>The source tar is available here:
64 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz">rsync-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz</a>
65 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
66 with a tar file of the "rsync-patches" repository released in a separate file:
67 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz</a>
68 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.3.0pre1.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
69 and the diffs from version 3.2.7 are available here:
70 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0pre1.diffs.gz">rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0pre1.diffs.gz</a>
71 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.2.7-3.3.0pre1.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>
74 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.7 released</h3>
75 <i class=date>October 20th, 2022</i>
77 <p>Rsync version 3.2.7 has been released.
78 This has some new features & fixes, including various bug fixes for arg validation & filter-rule validation.
80 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.7">3.2.7 NEWS</a> for a detailed changelog.
82 <p>The source tar is available here:
83 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.7.tar.gz">rsync-3.2.7.tar.gz</a>
84 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.7.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
85 with a tar file of the "rsync-patches" repository released in a separate file:
86 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.2.7.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.2.7.tar.gz</a>
87 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.2.7.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
88 and the diffs from version 3.2.2 are available here:
89 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.6-3.2.7.diffs.gz">rsync-3.2.6-3.2.7.diffs.gz</a>
90 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.6-3.2.7.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
93 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.6 released</h3>
94 <i class=date>September 9th, 2022</i>
96 <p>Rsync version 3.2.6 has been released.
97 This is a bug-fix release.
99 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.6">3.2.6 NEWS</a> for a detailed changelog.
101 <p>The source tar is available here:
102 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.6.tar.gz">rsync-3.2.6.tar.gz</a>
103 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.6.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
104 with a tar file of the "rsync-patches" repository released in a separate file:
105 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.2.6.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.2.6.tar.gz</a>
106 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.2.6.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
107 and the diffs from version 3.2.2 are available here:
108 <b><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.5-3.2.6.diffs.gz">rsync-3.2.5-3.2.6.diffs.gz</a>
109 (<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.2.5-3.2.6.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
112 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.5 released</h3>
113 <i class=date>August 14th, 2022</i>
115 <p>Rsync version 3.2.5 has been released.
116 This is a bug-fix and <a href="security.html" class=security>security</a> release.
118 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.5">3.2.5 NEWS</a> for a detailed changelog.
121 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.4 released</h3>
122 <i class=date>April 15th, 2022</i>
124 <p>Rsync version 3.2.4 has been released.
125 Another typical release with both bug fixes and some enhancements. It also contains a
126 <a href="security.html#s3_2_4" class=security>security fix</a>
127 for the bundled zlib 1.2.8, which may or may not be used in your particular build configuration.
129 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.4">3.2.4 NEWS</a>
130 for a detailed changelog.
133 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.3 released</h3>
134 <i class=date>August 6th, 2020</i>
136 <p>Rsync version 3.2.3 has been released.
137 It contains a smattering of bug fixes and various enhancements.
139 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.3">3.2.3 NEWS</a>
140 for a detailed changelog.
143 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.2 released</h3>
144 <i class=date>July 4th, 2020</i>
146 <p>Rsync version 3.2.2 has been released.
147 This is a few more portability fixes, some improvements to the newest features, and some
148 other simple changes. Hopefully this will be the last of these recent touch-up releases.
150 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.2">3.2.2 NEWS</a>
151 for a detailed changelog.
154 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.1 released</h3>
155 <i class=date>June 22th, 2020</i>
157 <p>Rsync version 3.2.1 has been released.
158 This is mainly a few fixes for some release issues and portability problems.
159 There's also a couple new features, just for good measure.
161 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.1">3.2.1 NEWS</a>
162 for a detailed changelog.
165 <h3>Rsync version 3.2.0 released</h3>
166 <i class=date>June 19th, 2020</i>
168 <p>Rsync version 3.2.0 has been released.
169 This release has a good number of a few new features and various bug fixes.
171 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.0">3.2.0 NEWS</a>
172 for a detailed changelog.
175 <h3>Rsync version 3.1.3 released</h3>
176 <i class=date>January 28th, 2018</i>
178 <p>Rsync version 3.1.3 has been released.
180 <a href="security.html#s3_1_3" class=security>couple security fixes</a>,
181 a few new features, and various bug fixes.
183 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.1.3">3.1.3 NEWS</a>
184 for a detailed changelog.
187 <h3>Rsync version 3.1.2 released</h3>
188 <i class=date>December 21st, 2015</i>
190 <p>Rsync version 3.1.2 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
191 It includes a <a href="security.html#s3_1_2" class=security>security fix</a>
192 for a transfer from a sender that you don't fully trust.
194 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.1.2">3.1.2 NEWS</a>
195 for a detailed changelog.
198 <h3>Rsync version 3.1.1 released</h3>
199 <i class=date>June 22nd, 2014</i>
201 <p>Rsync version 3.1.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
203 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.1.1">3.1.1 NEWS</a>
204 for a detailed changelog.
207 <h3>Rsync version 3.1.0 released</h3>
208 <i class=date>September 28th, 2013</i>
210 <p>Rsync version 3.1.0 has been released. This is a
211 feature release that improves performance, provides several new options, and
212 fixes a few bugs along the way.
214 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.1.0">3.1.0 NEWS</a>
215 for a detailed changelog.
218 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.9 released</h3>
219 <i class=date>September 23th, 2011</i>
221 <p>Rsync version 3.0.9 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
223 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.9">3.0.9 NEWS</a>
224 for a detailed changelog.
227 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.8 released</h3>
228 <i class=date>March 26th, 2011</i>
230 <p>Rsync version 3.0.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
232 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.8">3.0.8 NEWS</a>
233 for a detailed changelog.
236 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.7 released</h3>
237 <i class=date>December 31th, 2009</i>
239 <p>Rsync version 3.0.7 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
241 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.7">3.0.7 NEWS</a>
242 for a detailed changelog.
245 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.6 released</h3>
246 <i class=date>May 8th, 2009</i>
248 <p>Rsync version 3.0.6 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
250 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.6">3.0.6 NEWS</a>
251 for a detailed changelog.
254 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.5 released</h3>
255 <i class=date>December 28th, 2008</i>
257 <p>Rsync version 3.0.5 has been released. This is another bug-fix release.
259 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.5">3.0.5 NEWS</a>
260 for a detailed changelog.
263 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.4 released</h3>
264 <i class=date>September 6th, 2008</i>
266 <p>Rsync version 3.0.4 has been released. This is a bug-fix release with the
267 only enhancement being the adding of a way to interact with an
268 overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of the -e
271 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.4">3.0.4 NEWS</a>
272 for a detailed changelog.
275 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.3 released</h3>
276 <i class=date>June 29th, 2008</i>
278 <p>Rsync version 3.0.3 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that has
279 no new features (though it does have one new script in the support directory).
281 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.3">3.0.3 NEWS</a>
282 for a detailed changelog.
285 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.2 released</h3>
286 <i class=date>April 8th, 2008</i>
288 <p>Rsync version 3.0.2 has been released. This is a
289 <a href="security.html#s3_0_2" class=security>security release</a>
290 that fixes a potential buffer-overflow issue.
292 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.2">3.0.2 NEWS</a>
293 for a detailed changelog.
296 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.1 released</h3>
297 <i class=date>April 3rd, 2008</i>
299 <p>Rsync version 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release, which also
300 includes fixes/improvements for several issues in the daemon-exclude code.
302 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.1">3.0.1 NEWS</a>
303 for a detailed changelog.
306 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.0 released</h3>
307 <i class=date>March 1st, 2008</i>
309 <p>Rsync version 3.0.0 is finally here! This is a feature release that
310 also includes quite a few bug fixes.
312 <p>The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the
314 incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers) and the
315 official arrival of several other new features, including ACL support, extended
316 attribute support, filename character-set conversion, etc.
318 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.0.0">3.0.0 NEWS</a>
319 for a detailed changelog.
322 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.9 released</h3>
323 <i class=date>November 6th, 2006</i>
325 <p>Rsync version 2.6.9 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix
326 release with a few minor new features.
328 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.9">2.6.9 NEWS</a>
329 for a detailed changelog.
332 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.8 released</h3>
333 <i class=date>April 22th, 2006</i>
335 <p>Rsync version 2.6.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that
336 primarily addresses an exclude problem that affected the --relative option,
337 but also includes a <a href="security.html#s2_6_8" class=security>security fix</a> for
338 the xattrs.diff patch (which is not an
339 official part of rsync, but some packagers include it in their release).
341 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.8">2.6.8 NEWS</a>
342 for a detailed changelog.
345 <h3>Rsync 2.6.7 released</h3>
346 <i class=date>March 11th, 2006</i>
348 <p>Rsync version 2.6.7 has been released. This release has both several new
349 features and the usual accompaniment of bug fixes.
351 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.7">2.6.7 NEWS</a>
352 for a detailed changelog.
355 <h3>Rsync 2.6.6 released</h3>
356 <i class=date>July 28th, 2005</i>
358 <p>Rsync version 2.6.6 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release
359 which contains a <a href="security.html#s2_6_6" class=security>security fix</a>
360 to handle a null-pointer bug that turned up in rsync's version of zlib
361 1.1.4 (this is not the recent zlib 1.2.2 security fix, which did not
362 affect rsync) and to squash a few other minor bugs. To deal with the
363 zlib issue, rsync has been upgraded to include zlib 1.2.3.
365 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.6">2.6.6 NEWS</a>
366 for a detailed changelog.
369 <h3>Rsync 2.6.5 released</h3>
370 <i class=date>June 1st, 2005</i>
372 <p>Rsync version 2.6.5 has been released. This release is primarily a bug-fix
373 release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled)
374 release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements.
376 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.5">2.6.5 NEWS</a>
377 for a detailed changelog.
380 <h3>Rsync 2.6.4 released</h3>
381 <i class=date>March 30th, 2005</i>
383 <p>Rsync version 2.6.4 has been released. This release combines quite a
384 few new features, some improved delete efficiency, and the usual array of
387 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.4">2.6.4 NEWS</a>
388 for a detailed changelog.
391 <h3>Rsync 2.6.3 released</h3>
392 <i class=date>September 30th, 2004</i>
394 <p>Rsync version 2.6.3 has been released. It contains several new features
395 and quite a few bug fixes, including a <a href="security.html#s2_6_3" class=security>security
396 fix</a> for a patch-sanitizing bug in the daemon code.
398 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.3">2.6.3 NEWS</a>
399 for a detailed changelog.
402 <h3>Rsync 2.6.2 released</h3>
403 <i class=date>April 30th, 2004</i>
405 <p>Rsync version 2.6.2 has been released. It is a bug-fix release that mainly
406 fixes <b>a bug with the --relative option (-R) in 2.6.1</b>
407 that could cause files to be transferred incorrectly. This only affected a
408 source right at the root of the filesystem, such as "/" or "/*" (if you
409 first "cd /" and then copy from ".", it would not tickle the bug).
411 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.2">2.6.2 NEWS</a>
412 for a detailed changelog.
415 <h3>Rsync 2.6.1 released</h3>
416 <i class=date>April 26th, 2004</i>
418 <p>Rsync version 2.6.1 has been released. It is primarily a performance
419 release that requires less memory to run, makes fewer write calls to the socket
420 (lowering the system CPU time), does less string copying (lowering the user CPU
421 time), and also reduces the amount of data that is transmitted over the wire.
422 There have also been quite a few bug fixes, including a
423 <a href="security.html#s2_6_1" class=security>security fix</a> for a daemon problem when chroot
424 is not enabled. See the
425 <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.1">2.6.1 NEWS</a>
426 for a detailed changelog.
429 <h3>One Cygwin hang-problem resolved</h3>
431 <p>The problem with rsync hanging at the end of the transfer on
432 <a href="https://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> had been previously traced to a
433 signal-handling bug in their compatibility DLL. This bug appears to now be
434 fixed in DLL version 1.5.7-1, and Cygwin users are reporting that upgrading the
435 DLL removes the hang-at-end-of-transfer problem for their existing rsync executable.
436 (Note that this doesn't solve a hang that some folks see in the middle of a
437 transfer -- using daemon mode instead of ssh can work around that one.)
440 <h3>Rsync 2.6.0 released</h3>
441 <i class=date>January 1st, 2004</i>
443 <P> Two important things to note in the new release:
447 <li>The default remote shell is now "ssh" unless you tell configure you want to
448 make something else the default.
450 <li>Some bug fixes in the include/exclude code, while making things work
451 properly, have resulted in some user-visible changes for certain wildcard
452 strings. Read the BUG FIXES section in the
453 <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.0">2.6.0 NEWS</a>
454 to see if any of these changes apply to you.
455 (Most people should be unaffected.)
459 <p>One other item of note is that the oft-requested option "--files-from" is now
460 available. This option lets you specify a list of files to transfer, and can
461 be much more efficient than a recursive descent using include/exclude
462 statements (if you know in advance what files you want to transfer). The list
463 of files can come from either side of the connection, so it is possible for a
464 server to provide the file-list that lets someone grab a server-specified set of
465 files, for example. See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1">rsync man page</a>
468 <p>See the <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#2.6.0">2.6.0 NEWS</a>
469 for a detailed changelog.
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