Post #4224298

2026-06-04 12:50 UTC

To check what version you have of rsync currently running just type rsync into the terminal and then scroll back to the top where it displays the version number. If already 3.4.3 I'm afraid you'll need to roll back... someone more knowledgeable than me can say how one does that! #linux

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@alter_unicorn@masto.bike 2026-06-04 12:55

@nigelharpur@musicians.today apt show rsync -a # choose your version from the list apt install rsync=3.4.1+ds1-5+deb13u3 (I'm doing it right now, thanks for the heads-up)

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@samboy@mstdn.social 2026-06-04 13:10

@nigelharpur@musicians.today Further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334021 The Rsync developers’ POV is that the AI is unearthing long standing security bugs: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/620 (With my own open source project, the number of false flags AI has found vastly outnumbers the number of real security bugs; AI has found one bug worthy of patching which was almost to impossible to exploit with an optional program which hasn’t even compiled since 2022; other claims were found to not be actual security problems)

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