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13 <H2 align="center">Welcome to the rsync web pages</H2>
15 rsync is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</A>
16 utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely
17 available under the <A HREF="GPL.html">GNU General Public
18 License</A> and is currently being maintained by
19 <a href="http://opencoder.net/">Wayne Davison</a>.
21 <p><i>If you are running
22 (1) an xattr-enabled rsync older than 3.0.2,
23 (2) a writable rsync daemon older than 3.0.0,
24 or (3) a version of rsync older than 2.6.6, please see the
25 <a href="security.html" class=security>rsync security advisory page</a>.</i>
30 <h3>The latest development version</h3>
32 <p>If you're curious about the changes going into the next version of rsync,
33 you can view the <a href="/ftp/unpacked/rsync/NEWS">NEWS file from the source
34 repository</a> to see a summary of the current changes. Also available are the
35 <a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync.html">repository's rsync manpage</a> and the
36 <a href="/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsyncd.conf.html">repository's rsyncd.conf
37 manpage</a>. See the <a href="/download.html">download page</a> for more info
38 on grabbing the development version.
43 <h3>Rsync version 3.1.0 released</h3>
44 <i class=date>September 28th, 2013</i>
46 <p>Rsync version 3.1.0 has been released. This is a
47 feature release that improves performance, provides several new options, and
48 fixes a few bugs along the way.
50 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
51 for the details of what changed since 3.0.9.
52 The latest manpages are also available for both
53 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync</a> and
54 <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html">rsyncd.conf</a>.
56 <p>The source tar is available here:
57 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.0.tar.gz">rsync-3.1.0.tar.gz</a>
58 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.0.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
59 with a tar file of the "patches" directory now released in a separate file:
60 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.1.0.tar.gz">rsync-patches-3.1.0.tar.gz</a>
61 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.1.0.tar.gz.asc">signature</a>),</b>
62 and the diffs from version 3.0.9 are available here:
63 <b><a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.9-3.1.0.diffs.gz">rsync-3.0.9-3.1.0.diffs.gz</a>
64 (<a href="/ftp/rsync/src-diffs/rsync-3.0.9-3.1.0.diffs.gz.asc">signature</a>)</b>.
67 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.9 released</h3>
68 <i class=date>September 23th, 2011</i>
70 <p>Rsync version 3.0.9 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
72 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
73 for the details of what changed since 3.0.8.
76 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.8 released</h3>
77 <i class=date>March 26th, 2011</i>
79 <p>Rsync version 3.0.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
81 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
82 for the details of what changed since 3.0.7.
85 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.7 released</h3>
86 <i class=date>December 31th, 2009</i>
88 <p>Rsync version 3.0.7 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
90 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
91 for the details of what changed since 3.0.6.
94 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.6 released</h3>
95 <i class=date>May 8th, 2009</i>
97 <p>Rsync version 3.0.6 has been released. This is a bug-fix release.
99 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
100 for the details of what changed since 3.0.5.
103 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.5 released</h3>
104 <i class=date>December 28th, 2008</i>
106 <p>Rsync version 3.0.5 has been released. This is another bug-fix release.
108 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
109 for the details of what changed since 3.0.4.
112 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.4 released</h3>
113 <i class=date>September 6th, 2008</i>
115 <p>Rsync version 3.0.4 has been released. This is a bug-fix release with the
116 only enhancement being the adding of a way to interact with an
117 overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of the -e
120 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
121 for the details of what changed since 3.0.3.
124 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.3 released</h3>
125 <i class=date>June 29th, 2008</i>
127 <p>Rsync version 3.0.3 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that has
128 no new features (though it does have one new script in the support directory).
130 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
131 for the details of what changed since 3.0.2.
134 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.2 released</h3>
135 <i class=date>April 8th, 2008</i>
137 <p>Rsync version 3.0.2 has been released. This is a
138 <a href="security.html#s3_0_2" class=security>security release</a>
139 that fixes a potential buffer-overflow issue.
141 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
142 for the details of what changed since 3.0.1.
145 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.1 released</h3>
146 <i class=date>April 3rd, 2008</i>
148 <p>Rsync version 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release, which also
149 includes fixes/improvements for several issues in the daemon-exclude code.
151 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
152 for the details of what changed since 3.0.0.
155 <h3>Rsync version 3.0.0 released</h3>
156 <i class=date>March 1st, 2008</i>
158 <p>Rsync version 3.0.0 is finally here! This is a feature release that
159 also includes quite a few bug fixes.
161 <p>The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to the
163 incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with large transfers) and the
164 official arrival of several other new features, including ACL support, extended
165 attribute support, filename character-set conversion, etc.
167 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
168 for the details of what changed since 2.6.9.
171 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.9 released</h3>
172 <i class=date>November 6th, 2006</i>
174 <p>Rsync version 2.6.9 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix
175 release with a few minor new features.
177 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
178 for the details of what changed since 2.6.8.
181 <h3>Rsync version 2.6.8 released</h3>
182 <i class=date>April 22th, 2006</i>
184 <p>Rsync version 2.6.8 has been released. This is a bug-fix release that
185 primarily addresses an exclude problem that affected the --relative option,
186 but also includes a <a href="security.html#s2_6_8" class=security>security fix</a> for
187 the xattrs.diff patch (which is not an
188 official part of rsync, but some packagers include it in their release).
190 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
191 for the details of what changed since 2.6.7.
194 <h3>Rsync 2.6.7 released</h3>
195 <i class=date>March 11th, 2006</i>
197 <p>Rsync version 2.6.7 has been released. This release has both several new
198 features and the usual accompaniment of bug fixes.
200 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.7-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
201 for the details of what changed since 2.6.6.
204 <h3>Rsync 2.6.6 released</h3>
205 <i class=date>July 28th, 2005</i>
207 <p>Rsync version 2.6.6 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release
208 which contains a <a href="security.html#s2_6_6" class=security>security fix</a>
209 to handle a null-pointer bug that turned up in rsync's version of zlib
210 1.1.4 (this is not the recent zlib 1.2.2 security fix, which did not
211 affect rsync) and to squash a few other minor bugs. To deal with the
212 zlib issue, rsync has been upgraded to include zlib 1.2.3.
214 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.6-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
215 for the details of what changed since 2.6.5.
218 <h3>Rsync 2.6.5 released</h3>
219 <i class=date>June 1st, 2005</i>
221 <p>Rsync version 2.6.5 has been released. This release is primarily a bug-fix
222 release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled)
223 release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements.
225 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.5-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
226 for the details of what changed since 2.6.4.
229 <h3>Rsync 2.6.4 released</h3>
230 <i class=date>March 30th, 2005</i>
232 <p>Rsync version 2.6.4 has been released. This release combines quite a
233 few new features, some improved delete efficiency, and the usual array of
236 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.4-NEWS">release NEWS</a>
237 for the details of what changed since 2.6.3.
240 <h3>Rsync 2.6.3 released</h3>
241 <i class=date>September 30th, 2004</i>
243 <p>Rsync version 2.6.3 has been released. It contains several new features
244 and quite a few bug fixes, including a <a href="security.html#s2_6_3" class=security>security
245 fix</a> for a patch-sanitizing bug in the daemon code.
247 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.3-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
248 details of what changed since 2.6.2.
251 <h3>Rsync 2.6.2 released</h3>
252 <i class=date>April 30th, 2004</i>
254 <p>Rsync version 2.6.2 has been released. It is a bugfix release that mainly
255 fixes <b>a bug with the --relative option (-R) in 2.6.1</b>
256 that could cause files to be transferred incorrectly. This only affected a
257 source right at the root of the filesystem, such as "/" or "/*" (if you
258 first "cd /" and then copy from ".", it would not tickle the bug).
260 <p>See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.2-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the
261 details of what else was fixed.
264 <h3>Rsync 2.6.1 released</h3>
265 <i class=date>April 26th, 2004</i>
267 <p>Rsync version 2.6.1 has been released. It is primarily a performance
268 release that requires less memory to run, makes fewer write calls to the socket
269 (lowering the system CPU time), does less string copying (lowering the user CPU
270 time), and also reduces the amount of data that is transmitted over the wire.
271 There have also been quite a few bug fixes, including a
272 <a href="security.html#s2_6_1" class=security>security fix</a> for a daemon problem when chroot
273 is not enabled. See the
274 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.1-NEWS">release NEWS</a> for the full
278 <h3>One Cygwin hang-problem resolved</h3>
280 <p>The problem with rsync hanging at the end of the transfer on
281 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> had been previously traced to a
282 signal-handling bug in their compatibility DLL. This bug appears to now be
283 fixed in DLL version 1.5.7-1, and Cygwin users are reporting that upgrading the
284 DLL removes the hang-at-end-of-transfer problem for their existing rsync executable.
285 (Note that this doesn't solve a hang that some folks see in the middle of a
286 transfer -- using daemon mode instead of ssh can work around that one.)
289 <h3>Rsync 2.6.0 released</h3>
290 <i class=date>January 1st, 2004</i>
292 <P> Two important things to note in the new release:
296 <li>The default remote shell is now "ssh" unless you tell configure you want to
297 make something else the default.
299 <li>Some bug fixes in the include/exclude code, while making things work
300 properly, have resulted in some user-visible changes for certain wildcard
301 strings. Read the BUG FIXES section in the
302 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">NEWS file</a> to see if
303 any of these changes apply to you.
304 (Most people should be unaffected.)
308 <p>One other item of note is that the oft-requested option "--files-from" is now
309 available. This option lets you specify a list of files to transfer, and can
310 be much more efficient than a recursive descent using include/exclude
311 statements (if you know in advance what files you want to transfer). The list
312 of files can come from either side of the connection, so it is possible for a
313 server to provide the file-list that lets someone grab a server-specified set of
314 files, for example. See the <a href="/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">rsync man page</a>
317 <p>For a full list of changes in version 2.6.0, see the
318 <a href="/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS">release NEWS</a>.
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