rsync is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</A>
utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely
available under the <A HREF="GPL.html">GNU General Public
-License version 2</A>
+License version 2</A> and is currently being maintained by
+<a href="http://opencoder.net/">Wayne Davison</a>.
<p><i>(If you're using a version of rsync older than 2.6.3, see below for some security advisories.)</i>
-<h3>Rsync 2.6.6pre1 released</h3>
+<h3>The CVS version</h3>
-<p><i style="color:#777777">July 7th, 2005</i>
+<p>I'm currently working on rsync 3.0.0, which is going to be a feature
+release that has a number of improvments. There has already been work
+done to lower rsync's memory use, and make recursive transfers start up
+more rapidly (do to an incremental recursive scan being added). This
+version should also get ACL and xattr support, filename conversion
+support, and improved performance for large files (to name just some of
+the items on my todo list).
-<p>Rsync version 2.6.6pre1 has been released. This release is a preliminary
-release for trying out a zlib upgrade to version 1.2.2 plus a security fix for
-the latest security problem found in zlib. I had originally thought that this
-release was needed to fix a security problem in the zlib included in rsync, but
-it turns out that zlib 1.1.4 (which is used in 2.6.5 and earlier) is not affected
-by this latest zlib security problem.
+<p>If you're curious about the changes going into the next version of
+rsync, you can view the <a href="/ftp/unpacked/rsync/NEWS">NEWS file from
+CVS</a> to see a summary of the current changes. Also available are the
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync.html">rsync manpage from CVS</a> and the
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf manpage from
+CVS</a>.
-<p>If you'd like to read about all the fixes that are in 2.6.6pre1, read the
-<a href="http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
+<h3>Rsync version 2.6.9 released</h3>
-<p>You can download the pre-release version either as a tar file:
-<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.6pre1.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.6pre1.tar.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.6pre1.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),
-</b>or a set of diffs based on 2.6.5:<b>
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6pre1.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6pre1.diffs.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6pre1.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
+<p><i style="color:#777777">November 6th, 2006</i>
+
+<p>Rsync version 2.6.9 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix
+release with a few minor new features.
+
+<p>You can read all about the latest improvements and bug-fixes in the
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
+The latest version of each manpage is also available:
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
+
+<p>See the <a href="download.html">download page</a> for all the ways
+to grab the new version, or snag one of these:
+<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9.diffs.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
+Note that the diffs do not contain updates for the "patches" dir -- grab the tar
+file if you want the full release.
+
+<h3>Rsync version 2.6.8 released</h3>
+
+<p><i style="color:#777777">April 22th, 2006</i>
+
+<p>Rsync version 2.6.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that
+primarily addresses an exclude problem that affected the --relative option,
+but also includes a security fix for the xattrs.diff patch (which is not an
+official part of rsync, but some packagers include it in their release).
+
+<p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
+details of what changed since 2.6.7.
+
+<h3>Rsync 2.6.7 released</h3>
+
+<p><i style="color:#777777">March 11th, 2006</i>
+
+<p>Rsync version 2.6.7 has been released. This release has both several new
+features and the usual accompanyment of bug fixes.
+
+<p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
+details of what changed since 2.6.6.
+
+<h3>Rsync 2.6.6 released</h3>
+
+<p><i style="color:#777777">July 28th, 2005</i>
+
+<p>Rsync version 2.6.6 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release
+to handle a null-pointer bug that turned up in rsync's version of zlib
+1.1.4 (this is not the recent zlib 1.2.2 security fix, which did not
+affect rsync) and to squash a few other minor bugs. To deal with the
+zlib issue, rsync has been upgraded to include zlib 1.2.3.
+
+<p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
+details of what changed since 2.6.5.
<h3>Rsync 2.6.5 released</h3>
release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled)
release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements.
-<p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
-details of what changed since 2.6.4, and the
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/OLDNEWS">OLDNEWS file</a> for details of what changed
-in prior versions. You can also read the man pages for
-<a href="http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
-<a href="http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
-
-<p>See the <a href="download.html">download page</a> for all the ways
-to grab the new version, or snag one of these:
-<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.5.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.5.tar.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.5.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.4-2.6.5.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.4-2.6.5.diffs.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.4-2.6.5.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
-Note that the diffs do not contain updates for the "patches" dir -- grab the tar
-file if you want the full release.
-
+<p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
+details of what changed since 2.6.4.
<h3>Rsync 2.6.4 released</h3>
files should be transferred (this is because these names happen to get
sanitized twice, and thus the second call removes any lingering leading
slash(es) that the first call left behind). It does affect certain
-option paths that cause auxilliary files to be read or written.
+option paths that cause auxiliary files to be read or written.
<p>This bug was fixed in version 2.6.3 of rsync.
git.samba.org / rsync-web.git / blobdiff