rsync announce - Feb 2008 - Rsync 3.0.0pre9 released

I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre9.  We needed one last bug-fix release
prior to the 3.0.0 final release, so here it is.  I'm not anticipating
any large changes prior to that milestone.  Please help to test it to
ensure that we're ready to go!  Send email to the rsync mailing list
with your questions, comments, bug reports, etc.

You can download the source tar file and its signature from here:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre9.tar.gz
    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre9.tar.gz.asc

The patches directory was released in a separate tar file:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-patches-3.0.0pre9.tar.gz
    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-patches-3.0.0pre9.tar.gz.asc

The following changes were made since pre8 was released:

 - Fixed some lingering problems with sending extended attributes,
   particularly in dry-run mode.

 - Improved batch-file option checking to avoid protocol problems when
   reading from a batch file.

 - Improved the error reporting of files that need to be resent due to a
   checksum failure.

 - Fixed a problem with using --iconv in a daemon transfer.

 - Fixed the handling of 64-bit inode hard links on 64-bit CPUs.

 - Excludes can no longer affect directories implied when using
   --relative.

 - Avoid a bogus "vanished" error when using any of the --copy*links
   options, not just --copy-links itself.

 - Made the delete code use a little less stack when recursing through a
   directory hierarchy.

 - Handle the removal of files that are owned by the (non-root) user
   that is running rsync and lack write permissions.

 - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run.

 - Made --only-write-batch output "(BATCH ONLY)" in the footer.

 - Some documentation improvements.

 - Some other minor fixes.

To see a full summary of the changes since 2.6.9, visit this link:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre9-NEWS

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On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 21:01 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre9.  We needed one last bug-fix release
> prior to the 3.0.0 final release, so here it is.  I'm not anticipating
> any large changes prior to that milestone.  Please help to test it to
> ensure that we're ready to go!
Please do something about the potential vulnerability that has been
introduced with a daemon in a chrooted writable module loading
client-uploaded libraries via --iconv.  Just reverting the addition of
the daemon setup_iconv call would work for now.

Matt

> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre9.  We needed one last bug-fix  
> release prior to the 3.0.0 final release, so here it is.  I'm not  
> anticipating any large changes prior to that milestone.  Please help  
> to test it to ensure that we're ready to go!  Send email to the  
> rsync mailing list with your questions, comments, bug reports, etc.
Only positive comments from this end.  Syncing with flags+crtimes+full  
metadata preservation on OSX all going as expected, both on tests with  
backup-bouncer and in anger between the Leopard Intel box and the  
Tiger PPC box.  Kudos to the development team!

Will be quiet now until something actually goes wrong :-)

Tony M.

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 21:01 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre9.
I have made RPMS of rsync 3.0.0pre9:

http://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/#rsync-packages

Matt