-NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.8:
- If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
- sanitizes the symlink target strings (by default). This means that each
- symlink's value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink
- info intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any
- dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
- manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
- of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
- same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
- potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
- module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting.
-
- Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
--copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
- these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references
+ these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
(since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
receiving files.)
+ - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
+ update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
+ notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
+ instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
+ relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
+ gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
+
- Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
- If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
- is specified.
-
- If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
- If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
+ - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
+ overly long.
+
+ - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
+ longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
+ the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
+ may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
- Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
the daemon's config file.
- - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style
- tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied
- regardless of how "use chroot" is set.
-
- Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
(The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
still behaves in the same way as before.)
+ - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
+ from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+
- Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
+ changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
+ calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
+ an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
+ values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
+ functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
+ could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
+ that conditionally compiles the code.
+
+ - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
+ top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
+
+ - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
+ The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
+ was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
+ any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
+
+ - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
+ define it.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
+ The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code
+ that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes.
+
+ - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
+ maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
+ without actually running as root. It does this using a special
+ extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
+ acls.diff).
+
+ - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
+ better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
- Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
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