1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (28 Jul 2005)
2 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
7 - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more
8 secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did
9 not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's
14 - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
15 This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
16 (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
17 combined with --link-dest).
19 - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
20 without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though
21 it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
22 file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
23 a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
24 totally unchanged items).
26 - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
27 item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
29 - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
30 time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
32 - Fixed a bug where the 'p' (permissions) itemized-changes flag might get
33 set too often (if some non-significant mode bits differed).
35 - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being
36 unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the
37 directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that
38 ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing
39 destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version).
43 - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
44 per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
46 - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
47 that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
48 also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
49 of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
51 - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a
52 normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer.
54 - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or
59 - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
60 NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
61 find in the /etc/group file).
63 - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
64 -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.