Release announcements

cwRsync - Rsync client and server for Windows
Version 3.0.0 - December 2008

** NB! cwRsync Server 3.x IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH EARLIER VERSIONS **

CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.1.5

GENERAL

 1. UPDATED - Rsync 3.0.5

   See http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.5-NEWS
   for more information. This is a yet another bug-fix release.
   UNC-paths in the configuration file is now supported:
  
     Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only)

 2. UPDATED - Update package 100

   Rsync 3.0.5 with transliteration and time-limit patches
   
  
SERVER

 1. NEW - ICW technology
 
   ICW technology allows you to have multiple cygwin-based solutions
   by using a single base, as recommended by Cygwin. cwRsync server is now
   implemented as a repackaging of ICW Base and ICW RsyncServer packages.
   You can extend your installation by additional ICW packages like openssh,
   rbldnsd and so on. Every attempt has been made to assure that those
   fundamental changes will be transparent to end users. cwRsyncServer will
   function as before.
 
 2. NEW - Ability to specify your own service account
 
   cwRsyncServer installer has been extended to support user-defined service
   accounts. Existing accounts and domain accounts are also supported.
   As before, it is also possible to accept suggested values by the
   installer.
 
 3. REMOVED - OpenSSH server
 
   For OpenSSH Server functionality, you can now install copssh 2.x or newer
   before cwRsyncServer.

SHA256 Signatures:

b5667dbce2ac97ec6025f10f0f542fa20df520c18f0b3db23b4f5c0c05acbfa1 *cwRsyncServer_3.0.0_Installer.zip
699e7898dc1aba89748829dc2deda400311518cf13fe499cee5c33bc8155cbb6 *cwRsync_3.0.0_Installer.zip
abb792ebc4cbbdea7591f4e683ec14485793471688c6978a9178dbc4598cc57c *cwRsync_3.0.0_update_100.zip

COPSSH - A yet another SSH Server & Client for Windows
Version 2.0.0 Update 200 - December 2008

** NB! COPSSH 2.0.0 IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH EARLIER VERSIONS **

CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.4.6

 00. BUG FIX - Installer Update 200

 Missing DLL cygwrap-0.dll required by the newer versions of sshd is back.

 01. BUG FIX - Installer Update 100

 Update 100 includes OpenSSH version 5.1 executables. The original
 2.0.0 package had 4.7 executables as result of a packaging error.

 1. NEW - ICW technology
 
 ICW technology allows you to have multiple cygwin-based solutions
 by using a single base, as recommended by Cygwin. Copssh is now
 implemented as a repackaging of ICW Base and ICW OpenSSH packages.
 You can extend your installation by additional ICW packages like rsync,
 rbldnsd and so on. Every attempt has been made to assure that those
 fundamental changes will be transparent to end users. Copssh will
 function as before.
 
 2. NEW - Ability to specify your own service account
 
 COPSSH installer has been extended to support user-defined service
 accounts. Existing accounts and domain accounts are also supported.
 As before, it is also possible to accept suggested values by the
 installer.
 
 3. UPDATED - Copsshadm
 
 Copsshadm is updated to support user-defined service accounts.

SHA256 Signature:

 96d3738ae98ef6d85e2c88e98f1156fdd23ae93c97b5887de8b6892352a65f37 *Copssh_2.0.0_Installer.zip

Nagios NRPE plugin check_file version 1.3 uses a very flexible format for specification of file age filters. Perl module Time::ParseDate is used for that purpose and following formats are supported:

 Absolute date formats:

        Dow, dd Mon yy
        Dow, dd Mon yyyy
        Dow, dd Mon
        dd Mon yy
        dd Mon yyyy
        Month day{st,nd,rd,th}, year
        Month day{st,nd,rd,th}
        Mon dd yyyy
        yyyy/mm/dd
        yyyy/mm
        mm/dd/yy
        mm/dd/yyyy
        mm/yy
        yy/mm      (only if year > 12, or > 31 if UK)
        yy/mm/dd   (only if year > 12 and day < 32, or year > 31 if UK)
        dd/mm/yy   (only if UK, or an invalid mm/dd/yy or yy/mm/dd)
        dd/mm/yyyy (only if UK, or an invalid mm/dd/yyyy)
        dd/mm      (only if UK, or an invalid mm/dd)
 

 Relative date formats:

        count "days"
        count "weeks"
        count "months"
        count "years"
        Dow "after next"
        Dow                     (requires PREFER_PAST or PREFER_FUTURE)
        "next" Dow
        "tomorrow"
        "today"
        "yesterday"
        "last" dow
        "last week"
        "now"
        "now" "+" count units
        "now" "-" count units
        "+" count units
        "-" count units
        count units "ago"

Absolute time formats:

        hh:mm:ss[.ddd]
        hh:mm
        hh:mm[AP]M
        hh[AP]M
        hhmmss[[AP]M]
        "noon"
        "midnight"

Relative time formats:

        count "minuts"
        count "seconds"
        count "hours"
        "+" count units
        "+" count
        "-" count units
        "-" count
        count units "ago"

Timezone formats:

        [+-]dddd
        GMT[+-]d+
        [+-]dddd (TZN)
        TZN

Special formats:

        [ d]d/Mon/yyyy:hh:mm:ss [[+-]dddd]
        yy/mm/dd.hh:mm
 

Nagios NRPE plugin check_file comes now with a redesigned --filter option, allowing to define criteria like name matches, size and age in a common manner. The new option --rootonly makes possible to limit file searches to the top level, avoiding recursive directory tree traversal. An other new option --compare allows you to specify what kind of comparison operator which will be used for generation of warning/error messages.

Cwrsync 2.1.5 includes rsync 3.0.4, which is primarily a bug-fix release. The only enhancement is the adding of a way to interact with an overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of the -e option.

 Notes:
cwRsync VERSION 2.1.5 - September 2008

highlights (see changelog for more info)

- plain Rsync 3.0.4
- Update package 100 with time-limit and transliteration patches

Signatures:

MD5:
389db9614e0851f22047f61b0107fd95 *cwRsync_2.1.5_Installer.zip
f74667924e821855020ac8c8bb3d0aba *cwRsync_2.1.5_update_100.zip
7f3cd814765cebfeeb475efb99fbc3b6 *cwRsync_Server_2.1.5_Installer.zip

SHA1:
6fdd12cc91dcec96e9fe4ca2085ede9c8fcb0578 *cwRsync_2.1.5_Installer.zip
e6d490859c922d712f1e52d15c5e6f0dd2852627 *cwRsync_2.1.5_update_100.zip
abeed4fdeac6b33b96f0052f014f59987dbf120a *cwRsync_Server_2.1.5_Installer.zip

Changes:
cwRsync - Rsync client and server for Windows
Version 2.1.5 - September 2008

CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.1.4

GENERAL

1. UPDATED - Rsync 3.0.4

   See http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.4-NEWS for more information
  
   A bug-fix release with the only enhancement being the adding of a way to interact
   with an overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's behind-the-scenes use of
   the -e option.

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

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.

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