Release announcements

I have released two Cwrsync updates with Cygwin 1.7.0, which introduces many enhancements including longer pathnames and Unicode support in file names.

NB! CYGWIN 1.7 IS NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY YET. CONSIDER THOSE UPDATES AS EXPERIMENTAL

• Update 300 with Cygwin 1.7.0-28 and plain Rsync
• Update 400 with Cygwin 1.7.0-28 and Rsync with time-limit, transliteration and preallocation patches

The list below shows some of the changes related to rsync:

• Windows 95, 98 and Me are not supported anymore. The new DLL will not run on any of these systems.
• Mount points are no longer stored in the registry.  Use /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab.d/$USER instead.  Mount points created with mount(1) are only local to the current session and disappear when the last Cygwin process in the session exits.
• PATH_MAX is now 4096.  Internally, path names can be as long as the underlying OS can handle (32K).
• UTF-8 filenames are supported now.  So far, this requires to set the environment variable CYGWIN to contain "codepage:utf8", but this will likely disappear in a few weeks time.  The setting of $LANG or $LC_CTYPE will be used instead.
• The CYGWIN environment variable options "ntsec" and "smbntsec" have been replaced by the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl".
• Reworked pipe implementation which uses overlapped IO to create more reliable interruptible pipes and fifos.
• Reworked pipe handling for better speed and better support for signal processing.
• Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs since they don't understand these paths.
• On the first usage of a DOS path (C:foo, \foobar), the Cygwin DLL emits a scary warning that DOS paths shouldn't be used.  There's also the new CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting to disable that.

Release 2.1.4 contains many updates including rsync 3.0.3, OpenSSH 5.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Cygwin 1.5.25-15.

An update package including rsync with time-limit and transliteration patches is also available for download.

Release Name: 2.1.4

Notes:
cwRsync VERSION 2.1.4 - July 2008

highlights (see changelog for more info)

- plain Rsync 3.0.3
- OpenSSH 5.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h and cygwin 1.5.25-15
- Update package 100 with time-limit and transliteration patches

Signatures:

MD5:
a39b4da5300d64797a025c17cd11d9aa *cwRsync_2.1.4_Installer.zip
e38f11aaad1383fdd43861a82b85cfd0 *cwRsync_2.1.4_update_100.zip
1bfb6e974caef8f11e6ceda79f7c70b1 *cwRsync_Server_2.1.4_Installer.zip

SHA1:
de49d5609c702cdbbef118372520271880c222e8 *cwRsync_2.1.4_Installer.zip
35e426271176d6d9e52d15073d6d0547bb2f03b6 *cwRsync_2.1.4_update_100.zip
76f0cda4a475e1372889abb1d59bd45c57f4459a *cwRsync_Server_2.1.4_Installer.zip

Changes:
cwRsync - Rsync client and server for Windows
Version 2.1.4 - July 2008

CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.1.3

GENERAL

1. UPDATED - Rsync 3.0.3

   See http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/OLDNEWS for more information
   
   Many bug fixes.
   
2. UPDATED - OpenSSH 5.1

   More info at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.1
   
   Many enhancements and bug fixes.
   
3. UPDATED - OpenSSL 0.9.8h

   This release fixes two moderate security vulnerabilities which could
   result in a remote denial of service, CVE-2008-0891 and CVE-2008-1672.
   Please see http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt 
 
   More info at http://openssl.org/news/announce.html

4. UPDATED - Cygwin 1.5.25-15

   More info at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-06/msg00014.html

CLIENT

5. NEW - cygpath tool

SERVER

6. UPDATED - Many core tools

Copssh version 1.4.6 includes openssh 5.1, openssl 0.9.8h and cygwin 1.5.25-15. Upgrade is strongly recommended as OpenSSL 0.9.8h addresses two moderate security vulnerabilities. In addition, OpenSSH 5.1 has many new features and bug fixes. You will also notice that many core tools in the package are updated with the most recent versions.

Hiding the service account from welcome screen is an another convenient feature for users of XP/Vista. The copssh uninstaller is now more user friendly as it gives a warning about the consequences of uninstalling copssh with user created symbolic links/shortcuts intact.

You may visit File Release Notes and changelog at Sourceforge for more detailed information.

Version 5.4.3 of cwRsync installers come with newer versions of Cygwin, OpenSSH and OpenSSL. See version page for more details.