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author | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2005-07-28 17:42:56 +0000 |
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committer | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2005-07-28 17:42:56 +0000 |
commit | 870dddc5eb59aa4615f4fe335d9ae83226604260 (patch) | |
tree | a1a22952191241fadf614fe5da7283f7c8671480 | |
parent | 9d0d18b5909a57a28b65b2f142b318a9847dd37d (diff) | |
download | rsync-870dddc5eb59aa4615f4fe335d9ae83226604260.tar.gz |
Mention the recent changes.
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@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.5: SECURITY FIXES: - - Applied a zlib fix to block a buffer overflow in the decompression - code. Only affects a daemon if it allows uploads and does not refuse - the --compress option. + - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more + secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did + not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's + zlib 1.1.4. BUG FIXES: @@ -38,18 +39,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.5: we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination hostspec as a filename. + - Rsync now outputs a targeted error if both the source and destination + path appear to be a remote filespecs rather than treating the dest as + a very strange local path and (most likely) generating an error about + non-existent directories. + ENHANCEMENTS: + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). + + - The configure script now checks for lutimes() and lchmod() so that + rsync can make use of them to update attributes of symlinks (on + systems that support this). + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). + - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" + and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a + per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode + transfer. + - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options - that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was + that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing of a pull operation that has multiple sources. - - Upgraded the zlib code from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 (plus the security fix - mentioned above). + - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a + normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer. + + - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or + improved. BUILD CHANGES: |