rsync-2.5.3pre1 preview release -- please try it

[tim.conway at philips.com]

For those of us behind lame firewalls, it's also at
ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync/preview/rsync-2.5.3pre1.tar.gz

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
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Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org>
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02/18/2002 07:23 PM

 
        To:     rsync at samba.org
        cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
        Subject:        rsync-2.5.3pre1 preview release -- please try it
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Available now from samba.org and all mirrors.  Please report bugs,
compilation problems, etc.  If there are no major issues I think I
will put this out as 2.5.3 shortly, because it fixes a few serious
issues.  Thanks to everybody who contributed patches.

  rsync://samba.org/rsyncftp/preview/rsync-2.5.3pre1.tar.gz\*

rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet)

  SECURITY FIXES:

    * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
      process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson)

  BUG FIXES:

    * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message 
                 unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
      and resulted in the wrong data being copied.

    * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
      "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.

    * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
      on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".

    * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
      unexpectedly disconnects.  (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)

    * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
      slash.

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
      than -v as in 2.5.2.  Output from plain -v is more similar to
      what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
      to parse the output.

    * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)

    * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
      and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)

    * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
      print an error message.  (Colin Walters)


-- 
Martin