- Allow --password-file=- to read the password from stdin (filename "-").
+ - Rsync now comes packaged with an rsync-ssl helper script that can be
+ used to contact a remote rsync daemon using a piped-stunnel command.
+ It also includes an stunnel config file to run the server side to
+ support ssl daemon connections. See the packaging/lsb/rsync.spec
+ file for one way to package the resulting files. (Suggestions for
+ how to make this even easier to install & use are welcomed.)
+
- Added the --outbuf=N|L|B option for chosing the output buffering.
- Repating the --fuzzy option now causes the code to look for fuzzy matches
- The included zlib was upgraded from 1.2.3 to 1.2.8.
- Rsync can now be compiled to use an unmodified zlib library instead of
- the tweaked one that is included with rsync.
+ the tweaked one that is included with rsync. This will eventually
+ become the default, at which point we'll start the countdown to removing
+ the included zlib. Until then, feel free to configure using:
+
+ ./configure --with-included-zlib=no
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