Welcome to the rsync web pages rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely available under the GNU General Public License and is currently being maintained by Wayne Davison. If you are running (1) an rsync client older than 3.1.2 to an not-fully-trusted sender, (2) an xattr-enabled rsync older than 3.0.2, (3) a writable rsync daemon older than 3.0.0, or (4) a version of rsync older than 2.6.6, please see the rsync security advisory page. Rsync version 3.1.2 released December 21st, 2015 Rsync version 3.1.2 has been released. This is a bug-fix release. It includes a security fix for a transfer from a sender that you don't fully trust. See the release NEWS for the details of what changed since 3.1.1. The latest manpages are also available for both rsync and rsyncd.conf.