+NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (26 Mar 2011)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.7:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
+ exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
+ --backup-dir that is extra extra large.
+
+ - Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without
+ preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during
+ the transfer (CVE-2011-1097). This fixes some assert errors in the
+ hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums (via -c) that
+ should have matched.
+
+ - Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
+ and the transfer is using ACLs or xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a hang if a really large file is being processed by an rsync that
+ can't handle 64-bit numbers. Rsync will now complain about the file
+ being too big and skip it.
+
+ - For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
+ xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The un-copied
+ files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
+ data that is not going to be used.) This ensures that if the user uses
+ --no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
+ extended information from special files that are in the file list (but
+ not in the transfer).
+
+ - Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash. This
+ avoids a potential error where a filename could be interpreted as a
+ (usually invalid) option.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
+ --skip-compress.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
+ will now disallow access to that module.
+
+ - If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
+ reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
+
+ - If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
+ lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
+ system where the newer function is not around. This helps to make the
+ rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.
+
+ - Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
+ compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
+ protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
+ it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.
+
+ - Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
+ hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
+ code fails.
+
+ - The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
+ position. The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
+ an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.
+
+ - Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.
+
+ - Fixed a bug that prevented --numeric-ids from disabling the translation
+ of user/group IDs for ACLs.
+
+ - Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
+ option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
+ changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
+ trying to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.
+
+ - Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
+ file.
+
+ - The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
+ attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.
+
+ - Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
+ Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
+ NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.
+
+ - Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.
+
+ - Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.
+
+ - Avoid re-setting xattrs on a hard-linked file w/the same xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
+ user writable.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
+ into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).
+
+ - If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
+ the middle of adjacent high-bit characters. This prevents a potential
+ filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an
+ invalid multi-byte sequence.
+
+ - If a muli-protocol socket connection fails (i.e., when contacting a
+ daemon), we now report all the failures, not just the last one. This
+ avoids losing a relevant error (e.g. an IPv4 connection-refused error)
+ that happened before the final error (e.g. an IPv6 protocol-not-supported
+ error).
+
+ - Generate a transfer error if we try to call chown with a -1 for a uid or
+ a gid (which is not settable).
+
+ - Fixed the working of --force when used with --one-file-system.
+
+ - Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
+ reject an attempt to supply one (can configure --with-included-popt if
+ your system's popt library doesn't yet have this fix).
+
+ - A couple minor option tweaks to the support/rrsync script, and also some
+ regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.
+
+ - Fixed some issues in the support/mnt-excl script.
+
+ - Various manpage improvements.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added ".hg/" to the default cvs excludes (see -C & --cvs-exclude).
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
+
+ - A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
+
+ - Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
+
+ - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.
+
+ - Fixed configure's checking for iconv routines for newer OS X versions.
+
+ - Fixed the testsuite/xattrs.test script on OS X.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.7 (31 Dec 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.6:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a bogus free when using --xattrs with --backup.
+
+ - Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file
+ that hasn't really been created.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --compress (-z) where the receiving side could
+ return the error "inflate (token) returned -5".
+
+ - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it
+ noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory (both
+ sides of the transfer must be at least 3.0.7).
+
+ - Improved --skip-compress's error handling of bad character-sets and got
+ rid of a lingering debug fprintf().
+
+ - Fixed the daemon's conveyance of io_error value from the sender.
+
+ - An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid().
+
+ - Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that
+ needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior.
+
+ - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
+ its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+
+ - Improved the "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message.
+
+ - Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case
+ where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data
+ to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing).
+
+ - Some misc manpage improvements.
+
+ - Fixed the chmod-temp-dir testsuite on a system without /var/tmp.
+
+ - Make sure that a timeout specified in the daemon's config is used as a
+ maximum timeout value when the user also specifies a timeout.
+
+ - Improved the error-exit reporting when rsync gets an error trying to
+ cleanup after an error: the initial error is reported.
+
+ - Improved configure's detection of IPv6 for solaris and cygwin.
+
+ - The AIX sysacls routines will now return ENOSYS if ENOTSUP is missing.
+
+ - Made our (only used if missing) getaddrinfo() routine use inet_pton()
+ (which we also provide) instead of inet_aton().
+
+ - The exit-related debug messages now mention the program's role so it is
+ clear who output what message.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Got rid of type-punned compiler warnings output by newer gcc versions.
+
+ - The Makefile now ensures that proto.h will be rebuilt if config.h changes.
+
+ - The testsuite no longer uses "id -u", so it works better on solaris.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.5:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was
+ created from an incremental-recursion transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
+ multiple connections.
+
+ - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
+ have consecutive slashes in the value.
+
+ - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
+
+ - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
+ avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
+
+ - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
+ an I/O during the sending of the file list.
+
+ - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
+ start of the short options.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
+ 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
+
+ - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
+ receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
+ the transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
+
+ - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
+ rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
+
+ - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
+
+ - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
+ the --disable-iconv-open configure option.
+
+ - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or
+ the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a
+ crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero.
+ Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking.
+
+ - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short
+ options specified.
+
+ - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental
+ recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle
+ "redo" files properly (and without hanging).
+
+ - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot.
+
+ - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or
+ destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem
+ when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from
+ file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when
+ incremental recursion is active.
+
+ - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files.
+
+ - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command.
+
+ - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the
+ confusing "non-empty" qualifier.
+
+ - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of
+ getnameinfo().
+
+ - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of
+ consecutive sparse data.
+
+ - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a
+ client sender (which includes local copying).
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready
+ to remove a directory that was now gone.
+
+ - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings.
+
+ - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial-
+ transfer warning.
+
+ - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic
+ update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a
+ particular symlink idiom.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
+ allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
+
+ - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
+ of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
+
+ - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
+ particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
+ be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
+ the --remove-source-files was also specified.
+
+ - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
+ destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
+ a non-root copy can't affect.
+
+ - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
+ incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
+
+ - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
+ of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
+ of the transfer).
+
+ - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
+ this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
+ silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled
+ due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified).
+
+ - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
+ the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name
+ with the wrong charset conversion.
+
+ - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
+ the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
+
+ - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
+
+ - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number
+ (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
+ is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
+ user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
+ server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
+
+ - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
+ or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
+
+ - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync"
+ instead of "$RSYNC".
+
+ - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and
+ to do even more consistency checks on the files.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.2:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has
+ "use chroot" enabled.
+
+ - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code.
+
+ - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a
+ --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the
+ destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied.
+
+ - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev"
+ error.
+
+ - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup.
+
+ - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon-
+ exclude rule.
+
+ - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no
+ files) to a differently named, non-existent directory.
+
+ - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape.
+
+ - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right
+ errno when a function failed.
+
+ - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir.
+
+ - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect().
+
+ - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a
+ newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
+ a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
+
+ - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older
+ rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit.
+
+ - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
+ (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
+ checksum struct over the wire.
+
+ - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded
+ arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude
+ check happen in the better place in the sending code.
+
+ - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory().
+
+ - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file
+ offsets.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in
+ the daemon config file as "parameters".
+
+ - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows
+ an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that
+ sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
+ compatibility improvements.
+
+ - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the
+ listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect
+ a dot-dir arg.
+
+ - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory
+ from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and
+ the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get
+ rebuild without cause.
+
+ - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities
+ (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps.
+
+ - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to
+ bleed-over into patches that follow.
+
+\f
NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008)
Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
Changes since 3.0.1:
- Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's
owner when rsync is running as the same user.
+ - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is
+ kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so
+ that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of
+ blocks increases.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
\f
Partial Protocol History
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
- ?? ??? 2008 3.0.3 30
+ ?? ??? 2011 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31
+ 26 Mar 2011 3.0.8 30
+ 31 Dec 2009 3.0.7 30
+ 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30
+ 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30
+ 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30
+ 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30
08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30
03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30
01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30
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