1 NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
7 - Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
8 exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
9 --backup-dir that is extra extra large.
11 - Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
12 and the transfer is using ACLs or extended attributes.
14 - Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash.
16 - Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
19 - If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
20 will now disallow access to that module.
22 - If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
23 reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
25 - Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
26 compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
27 protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
28 it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.
30 - Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
31 hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
34 - The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
35 position. The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
36 an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.
38 - If we fail to connect to an rsync daemon, report all the connection
39 errors (e.g. ipv4 & ipv6), not just the last one.
41 - Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or acl transfer that used an alt-dest
42 option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
43 changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/acl info but was instead
44 tryring to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.
46 - Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
49 - Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.
51 - Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.
53 - Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
56 - Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
57 reject an attempt to supply and arg.
59 - A couple minor option tweaks to support/rrsync script, and also some
60 regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.
62 - A few manpage improvements.
66 - Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
68 - A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
70 - Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
72 - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.