Hello everybody, to date we ship rsync with bundled zlib to keep compatibility with rsync up to version 3.1.0 and it's old-style --compress option. This is no longer required with rsync 3.1.1, which was released on 2014-06-22 - nearly six years ago! The bundled zlib carries some security issues, so time to act - one way or another.
Even old-stable Debian Jessie [0] has rsync version 3.1.1. So any concern to finally drop bundled zlib and use system zlib? I would suggest to post a news item, feel free to give thoughts and feedback. --- >8 --- rsync compatibility Our `rsync` package was shipped with bundled `zlib` to provide compatibility with old-style `--compress` option up to version 3.1.0. Version 3.1.1 was released on 2014-06-22 and is shipped by all major distributions now. So we decided to finally drop the bundled library and ship a package with system `zlib`. Go and blame those running old versions if you encounter errors with `rsync 3.1.3-3`. --- >8 --- [0] https://packages.debian.org/de/jessie/rsync -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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