<p><i>(If you're using a version of rsync older than 2.6.3, see below for some security advisories.)</i>
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-<h3>Rsync 2.6.7pre3 available for release testing</h3>
+<h3>Rsync 2.6.9pre2 available for release testing</h3>
-<p><i style="color:#777777">March 2nd, 2006</i>
+<p><i style="color:#777777">October 14th, 2006</i>
-<p>Rsync version 2.6.7pre3 is now available for release testing. I'm hoping
-that this will be the final pre-release before 2.6.7, so please
-give it a try and send email to the rsync mailing list with any questions,
-comments, bug reports, etc.
+<p>Rsync version 2.6.9pre2 is now available for release testing. Please test it
+and send email to the rsync mailing list with any questions, comments, or bug
+reports.
<p>You can read all about the latest improvements and bug-fixes in the
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7pre3-NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
-The latest versions of the manpages are also available for both
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre2-NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
+The pre-release version of the manpages are also available for both
<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
<p>The source tar is available here:
-<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7pre3.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.7pre3.tar.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7pre3.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
-and the diffs from version 2.6.7pre2 are available here:
-<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7pre2-2.6.7pre3.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.7pre2-2.6.7pre3.diffs.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7pre2-2.6.7pre3.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
+<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre2.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.9pre2.tar.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre2.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
+the diffs from version 2.6.9pre1 are available here:
+<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre1-2.6.9pre2.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.9pre1-2.6.9pre2.diffs.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre1-2.6.9pre2.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>,
+and the earlier pre-release diffs are available here:
+<b><a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9pre1.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9pre1.diffs.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-2.6.9pre1.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>Also of note for packagers: the diffs in the patches dir of the release tar
-now contain patches for generated files, so you won't need to use autoconf and
-yodl unless you're creating a custom combination of patches that don't apply
-cleanly together. There are several new patches available.
+<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>You can read all about the latest improvements and bug-fixes in the
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS">NEWS file</a>.
+The latest versions of the manpages are also available for both
+<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-2.6.8.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.8.tar.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),
+<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7-2.6.8.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.7-2.6.8.diffs.gz</a>
+(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7-2.6.8.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>Also of note for packagers: as was the case with the 2.6.7 release, the
+diffs in the patches dir of the release tar now contain patches for generated
+files, so you won't need to use autoconf and yodl unless you're creating a
+custom combination of patches that don't apply cleanly together.
+
+<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>
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>If you'd like to read about all the fixes that are in 2.6.6, read the
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.6-NEWS">NEWS file</a>. See the
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/OLDNEWS">OLDNEWS file</a> for details of what changed
-in prior versions. You can also read the
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync manpage</a> and
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf manpage</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-2.6.6.tar.gz">rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),
-<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6.diffs.gz">rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6.diffs.gz</a>
-(<a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.5-2.6.6.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-2.6.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
+details of what changed since 2.6.5.
<h3>Rsync 2.6.5 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