Rsync 3.0.0pre7 released

[Ming Zhang]

I had sent a memory leak fix in print_rsync_version() a while go. not
sure if that was considered? or just leave that to OS cleanup? 

thanks.


Ming


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 16:17 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre7, the latest pre-release version of
> the upcoming 3.0.0 release.
> 
> This release contains fixed exclude checks for a "use chroot = no"
> daemon that has excludes listed in the config file.  This is a partial
> fix for the 2nd advisory that was released recently.  See the rsync
> security web page for the updated details and a patch for 2.6.9:
> 
>     http://rsync.samba.org/security.html
> 
> Thanks for all the testing!  We're making good progress to get this
> released in the weeks ahead.  Please 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-3.0.0pre7.tar.gz
>     http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre7.tar.gz.asc
> 
> The patches directory was released in a separate tar file for this
> release.  I'm still considering if this is the best choice or not, so
> feel free to comment:
> 
>     http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-patches-3.0.0pre7.tar.gz
>     http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-patches-3.0.0pre7.tar.gz.asc
> 
> The following changes were made since pre6 was released:
> 
>  - The aforementioned daemon-exclude fixes.
> 
>  - The release script now gets the timestamps on the generated autoconf
>    files right so that make doesn't try to rebuild them.
> 
>  - Fixed a bug in the --progress output where the to-check count would
>    sometimes go negative.
> 
>  - Fixed a glitch in an internal directory counter on the sending side
>    that could cause rsync to crash.
> 
>  - Avoid an assert problem if --hard-links was used in list-only mode.
> 
>  - Check alternate-basis-dir options (--*-dest) and warn about problems.
> 
>  - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) memory leak in make_file().
> 
>  - Silenced some compiler warnings.
> 
> To see a full summary of the changes since 2.6.9, visit this link:
> 
>     http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre7-NEWS
> 
> ..wayne..
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