Re: [BLFS Trac] #23429: rsync-3.4.4

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#23429: rsync-3.4.4
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  Joe Locash
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  13.1
Component:  BOOK         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:               |
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Changes (by Joe Locash):

 * resolution:   => fixed
 * status:  assigned => closed

Comment:

 {{{
 # NEWS for rsync 3.4.4 (8 Jun 2026)

 ## Changes in this version:

 This is a conservative point release that backports regression fixes
 on top of 3.4.3.  No new features are included.

 ### BUG FIXES:

 - Honour a relative alt-basis directory (e.g. `--link-dest=../sibling`,
   `--copy-dest`, `--compare-dest`) on a daemon receiver running with
   `use chroot = no`.  Such a path is re-anchored at the module root but
   was then rejected by the receiver's secure open; it now works where
   kernel-enforced confinement is available.  See the PORTABILITY note
   below for the platform limitation.  Fixes #915.

 - sender: open a module-root-absolute path for a `path = /` module so a
   daemon serving the filesystem root can satisfy absolute request
   paths again.  Fixes #897.

 - flist: accept the missing-args mode-0 entry in recv_file_entry.
   Fixes #910.

 - receiver: fix a false "failed verification -- update discarded" when
   resuming a delta transfer with an absolute `--partial-dir`.

 - receiver: fix a NULL dereference on the delta discard path.

 - generator: cap the block s2length at the negotiated checksum length.

 - main: fix `--mkpath` with `--dry-run` for a file-to-file copy.
   Fixes #880.

 - daemon: un-backslash escaped option args.  Fixes #829.

 - token: drain the matched-block insert deflate.  Fixes #951.

 - Fix the "update skips a file of a different type" case and the
   daemon upload delete stats.

 - alloc: revert "zero all new memory from allocations".  Fixes #959.

 - Always clear the stat buffer and validate nanoseconds before use.

 ### PORTABILITY / BUILD:

 - The relative alt-basis fix for daemon receivers (#915) relies on
   kernel "stay below dirfd" path resolution -- `openat2(RESOLVE_BENEATH)`
   on Linux 5.6+, or `openat()` with `O_RESOLVE_BENEATH` on FreeBSD 13+
   and macOS 15+.  On platforms that lack it (Solaris, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
   Cygwin and older Linux) `secure_relative_open()` deliberately rejects
   any path with a `..` component, so relative alt-basis directories
   remain unavailable there -- function traded for safety, matching the
   trade-off already documented for the #715 fix.  Absolute alt-basis
   paths are unaffected on every platform.

 - openat2 is now autodetected at configure time (HAVE_OPENAT2): the
   `openat2(RESOLVE_BENEATH)` resolver is compiled in only when both
   `<linux/openat2.h>` and the `SYS_openat2` syscall number are present,
   fixing the build on older kernels/headers.  Fixes #924, #905, #900,
   #904.

 - Fall back to do_mknod() when mknodat() / mkfifoat() are unavailable.
   Fixes #896.

 - Install generated manpages correctly in an out-of-tree build.

 ### DEVELOPER RELATED:

 - Added a CI workflow that builds this stable branch and runs the
   `v34-stable-testsuite` regression suite against the built binary,
   giving regression coverage without importing the full master test
   suite into the stable branch.

 - Added a check-progs target for fleettest and extended the build
   workflows to run on `*-stable` release branches.
 }}}
 Fixed at 08c68a0be7.
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