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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG index 83e97f6..ae1a62c 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG +++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG @@ -11,15 +11,29 @@ fsyncing. Options such as --windows-mode, --chars-to-quote, Now rdiff-backup supports user extended attributes (EAs). To take advantage of this you will need the python module pyxattr and a file system that supports EAs. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable -discussion on EA and ACL support. +discussion. Support for access control lists (ACLs) was also added. An ACL capable file system and the python package pylibacl (which exports the -posix1e module) are required. +posix1e module) are required. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable +discussion. Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and writes Mac OS X style resource forks! +****** Warning ****** The above features are new to this development +release, and it is difficult to test all the possibly combinations of +source and destination file systems. They should not be considered +stable. However, help would be appreciated testing these new +features. + +****** Warning #2 ****** rdiff-backup records ACL and EA information +in files designed to be compatible with the utilities "getfacl" and +"getfattr". However, there is a possible security hole in both these +formats (see +http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2003-June/001498.html). +rdiff-backup's format will be fixed when getf{attr|acl}'s is. + Added --list-increment-sizes switch, which tells you how much space the various backup files take up. (Suggested by Andrew Bressen) @@ -31,6 +45,11 @@ Troels Arvin.) Fixed bug with --check-destination and --windows-mode reported by Tucker Sylvestro. +The librsync blocksize is now chosen based on filesize. This should +make operations on large files faster (in some cases, orders of +magnitude faster). Thanks to Ty! Boyack for bringing this issue to my +attention. + New in v0.12.0 (2003/06/26) --------------------------- |