The first rsync-2.5.6 pre-release version is now available at: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.5.6pre1.tar.gz ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync/preview/rsync-2.5.6pre1.tar.gz rsync://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.5.6pre1.tar.gz
There's also a corresponding '.sig' file that contains a gpg signature of the file; the public key is available on the pgp keyservers. Please test it out thoroughly and report problems and bug fix patches to this mailing list. Known issues that will probably need to be resolved before the final release: 1. The Redhat Linux ia64 and Alpha and the OpenBSD Sparc64 ports are all failing the daemon-gzip-upload and daemon-gzip-download tests even though the basic daemon test succeeds. The OpenBSD test reports a core dump, and I suspect they're all having the same problem related to 64 bit. See build output on build.samba.org. Somebody else is going to have to fix this, I don't have the resources. 2. The NetBSD i386 port is failing the chgrp test. NetBSD users, see build.samba.org. 3. --copy-unsafe-links is badly broken. I'm planning on trying to fix this myself. 4. The --modify-window option should default to 2 seconds or 1 second on Cygwin. I'll put this in once somebody determines which it should be. 5. The documentation hosts allow & hosts deny needs to be updated for IPv6. Changes since the 2.5.5 release: ENHANCEMENTS: * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael Zimmerman) * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the destination field. * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. (J.W. Schultz) * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon Middleton) * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) BUG FIXES: * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John L. Allen, Martin Pool) * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) INTERNAL: * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin Pool, Nelson Beebe) * More test cases. (Martin Pool) * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. (Jos Backus) - Dave Dykstra
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