new release 3.4.0 - critical security release

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Wed Jan 15 23:54:10 UTC 2025


rsbecker at ... asks:

>> Is there a way I can get access to a machine 3.4.0 is failing to build on?
>> Maybe a VM under VirtualBox? Or some cloud service?
>> I don't have an ia64

QEMU does not support IA-64, so VMs are likely out.  20+ years ago, HP
had an IA-64 emulator that sort of worked, but didn't handle the
82-bit registers of IA-64.

However, I have a physical IA-64 server box that runs Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga).  I successfully built
rsync-3.4.0 on it yesterday like this:

	$ export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
	$ ./configure --prefix=$prefix --disable-xxhash --disable-zstd --disable-lz4  && make all check

The three disabled compression features are not available on that
system.  Also, when I found that the patch files for 3.4.0 could not
all be installed, I abandoned any attempt at using them, and just took
the stock rsync-3.4.0 bundle.

Here is what my IA-64 version reports:

	$ rsync --version
	rsync  version 3.4.0  protocol version 32
	Copyright (C) 1996-2025 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
	Web site: https://rsync.samba.org/
	Capabilities:
	    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
	    socketpairs, symlinks, no symtimes, hardlinks, hardlink-specials,
	    hardlink-symlinks, IPv6, atimes, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs,
	    xattrs, optional secluded-args, iconv, prealloc, stop-at, no crtimes
	Optimizations:
	    no SIMD-roll, no asm-roll, openssl-crypto, no asm-MD5
	Checksum list:
	    md5 md4 sha1 none
	Compress list:
	    zlibx zlib none
	Daemon auth list:
	    sha512 sha256 sha1 md5 md4
	...

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