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794f2cba WD |
1 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.7 (31 Dec 2009) |
2 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 3.0.6: | |
4 | ||
5 | BUG FIXES: | |
6 | ||
7 | - Fixed a bogus free when using --xattrs with --backup. | |
8 | ||
9 | - Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file | |
10 | that hasn't really been created. | |
11 | ||
12 | - Fixed a problem with --compress (-z) where the receiving side could | |
13 | return the error "inflate (token) returned -5". | |
14 | ||
15 | - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it | |
16 | noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory (both | |
17 | sides of the transfer must be at least 3.0.7). | |
18 | ||
19 | - Improved --skip-compress's error handling of bad character-sets and got | |
20 | rid of a lingering debug fprintf(). | |
21 | ||
22 | - Fixed the daemon's conveyance of io_error value from the sender. | |
23 | ||
24 | - An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid(). | |
25 | ||
26 | - Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that | |
27 | needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior. | |
28 | ||
29 | - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses | |
30 | its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. | |
31 | ||
32 | - Improved the "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message. | |
33 | ||
34 | - Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case | |
35 | where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data | |
36 | to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing). | |
37 | ||
38 | - Some misc manpage improvements. | |
39 | ||
40 | - Fixed the chmod-temp-dir testsuite on a system without /var/tmp. | |
41 | ||
42 | - Make sure that a timeout specified in the daemon's config is used as a | |
43 | maximum timeout value when the user also specifies a timeout. | |
44 | ||
45 | - Improved the error-exit reporting when rsync gets an error trying to | |
46 | cleanup after an error: the initial error is reported. | |
47 | ||
48 | - Improved configure's detection of IPv6 for solaris and cygwin. | |
49 | ||
50 | - The AIX sysacls routines will now return ENOSYS if ENOTSUP is missing. | |
51 | ||
52 | - Made our (only used if missing) getaddrinfo() routine use inet_pton() | |
53 | (which we also provide) instead of inet_aton(). | |
54 | ||
55 | - The exit-related debug messages now mention the program's role so it is | |
56 | clear who output what message. | |
57 | ||
58 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
59 | ||
60 | - Got rid of type-punned compiler warnings output by newer gcc versions. | |
61 | ||
62 | - The Makefile now ensures that proto.h will be rebuilt if config.h changes. | |
63 | ||
64 | - The testsuite no longer uses "id -u", so it works better on solaris. | |
65 | ||
66 | \f | |
8f73c8a4 WD |
67 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009) |
68 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
69 | Changes since 3.0.5: | |
70 | ||
71 | BUG FIXES: | |
72 | ||
73 | - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was | |
74 | created from an incremental-recursion transfer. | |
75 | ||
76 | - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of | |
77 | multiple connections. | |
78 | ||
79 | - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that | |
80 | have consecutive slashes in the value. | |
81 | ||
82 | - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed. | |
83 | ||
84 | - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which | |
85 | avoids a transfer error in the receiver. | |
86 | ||
87 | - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was | |
88 | an I/O during the sending of the file list. | |
89 | ||
90 | - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the | |
91 | start of the short options. | |
92 | ||
93 | - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code | |
94 | 23 instead of the proper exit code 24. | |
95 | ||
96 | - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy. | |
97 | ||
98 | - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the | |
99 | receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in | |
100 | the transfer. | |
101 | ||
102 | - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present. | |
103 | ||
104 | - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause | |
105 | rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files. | |
106 | ||
107 | - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch. | |
108 | ||
109 | - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch. | |
110 | ||
111 | - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target. | |
112 | ||
113 | - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option. | |
114 | ||
115 | - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding | |
116 | the --disable-iconv-open configure option. | |
117 | ||
118 | - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or | |
119 | the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch. | |
120 | ||
121 | - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux. | |
122 | ||
123 | \f | |
8051aa5a WD |
124 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008) |
125 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
126 | Changes since 3.0.4: | |
127 | ||
128 | BUG FIXES: | |
129 | ||
130 | - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a | |
131 | crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero. | |
132 | Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking. | |
133 | ||
134 | - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short | |
135 | options specified. | |
136 | ||
137 | - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental | |
138 | recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle | |
139 | "redo" files properly (and without hanging). | |
140 | ||
141 | - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot. | |
142 | ||
143 | - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or | |
144 | destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem | |
145 | when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. | |
146 | ||
147 | - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from | |
148 | file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory. | |
149 | ||
150 | - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when | |
151 | incremental recursion is active. | |
152 | ||
153 | - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files. | |
154 | ||
155 | - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. | |
156 | ||
157 | - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command. | |
158 | ||
159 | - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the | |
160 | confusing "non-empty" qualifier. | |
161 | ||
162 | - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of | |
163 | getnameinfo(). | |
164 | ||
165 | - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of | |
166 | consecutive sparse data. | |
167 | ||
168 | - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a | |
169 | client sender (which includes local copying). | |
170 | ||
171 | - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready | |
172 | to remove a directory that was now gone. | |
173 | ||
174 | - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings. | |
175 | ||
176 | - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial- | |
177 | transfer warning. | |
178 | ||
179 | - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only). | |
180 | ||
181 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
182 | ||
183 | - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic | |
184 | update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a | |
185 | particular symlink idiom. | |
186 | ||
187 | \f | |
188 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008) | |
189 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
190 | Changes since 3.0.3: | |
191 | ||
192 | BUG FIXES: | |
193 | ||
194 | - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to | |
195 | allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX). | |
196 | ||
197 | - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number | |
198 | of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD). | |
199 | ||
200 | - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This | |
201 | particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot | |
202 | be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if | |
203 | the --remove-source-files was also specified. | |
204 | ||
205 | - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the | |
206 | destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that | |
207 | a non-root copy can't affect. | |
208 | ||
209 | - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in | |
210 | incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled. | |
211 | ||
212 | - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead | |
213 | of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides | |
214 | of the transfer). | |
215 | ||
216 | - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side, | |
217 | this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail | |
218 | silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled | |
219 | due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified). | |
220 | ||
221 | - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename, | |
222 | the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name | |
223 | with the wrong charset conversion. | |
224 | ||
225 | - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating | |
226 | the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. | |
227 | ||
228 | - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr. | |
229 | ||
230 | - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number | |
231 | (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation). | |
232 | ||
233 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
234 | ||
235 | - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol | |
236 | is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the | |
237 | user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive | |
238 | server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server. | |
239 | ||
240 | - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit. | |
241 | ||
242 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
243 | ||
244 | - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile | |
245 | or the configure files, only for actual changes in content. | |
246 | ||
247 | - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync" | |
248 | instead of "$RSYNC". | |
249 | ||
250 | - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and | |
251 | to do even more consistency checks on the files. | |
252 | ||
253 | \f | |
93f3fbf7 WD |
254 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008) |
255 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
256 | Changes since 3.0.2: | |
257 | ||
258 | BUG FIXES: | |
259 | ||
260 | - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has | |
261 | "use chroot" enabled. | |
262 | ||
263 | - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code. | |
264 | ||
265 | - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a | |
266 | --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the | |
267 | destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied. | |
268 | ||
269 | - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev" | |
270 | error. | |
271 | ||
272 | - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup. | |
273 | ||
274 | - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon- | |
275 | exclude rule. | |
276 | ||
277 | - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no | |
278 | files) to a differently named, non-existent directory. | |
279 | ||
280 | - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape. | |
281 | ||
282 | - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right | |
283 | errno when a function failed. | |
284 | ||
285 | - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir. | |
286 | ||
287 | - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect(). | |
288 | ||
289 | - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a | |
290 | newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten. | |
291 | ||
292 | - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or | |
293 | a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes. | |
294 | ||
295 | - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older | |
296 | rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit. | |
297 | ||
298 | - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count | |
299 | (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid | |
300 | checksum struct over the wire. | |
301 | ||
302 | - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded | |
303 | arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude | |
304 | check happen in the better place in the sending code. | |
305 | ||
306 | - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory(). | |
307 | ||
308 | - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file | |
309 | offsets. | |
310 | ||
311 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
312 | ||
313 | - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in | |
314 | the daemon config file as "parameters". | |
315 | ||
316 | - The description of the --inplace option was improved. | |
317 | ||
318 | EXTRAS: | |
319 | ||
320 | - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows | |
321 | an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that | |
322 | sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol. | |
323 | ||
324 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
325 | ||
326 | - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some | |
327 | compatibility improvements. | |
328 | ||
329 | - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the | |
330 | listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect | |
331 | a dot-dir arg. | |
332 | ||
333 | - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory | |
334 | from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and | |
335 | the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get | |
336 | rebuild without cause. | |
337 | ||
338 | - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities | |
339 | (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps. | |
340 | ||
341 | - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to | |
342 | bleed-over into patches that follow. | |
343 | ||
344 | \f | |
da9aefa6 WD |
345 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008) |
346 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
347 | Changes since 3.0.1: | |
348 | ||
349 | BUG FIXES: | |
350 | ||
351 | - Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the xattr code. | |
352 | ||
353 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
354 | ||
355 | - None. | |
356 | ||
357 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
358 | ||
359 | - The RPM spec file was improved to install more useful files. | |
360 | ||
361 | - A few developer-oriented scripts were moved from the support dir | |
362 | to the packaging dir. | |
363 | ||
364 | \f | |
0917f581 WD |
365 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (3 Apr 2008) |
366 | Protocol: 30 (unchanged) | |
367 | Changes since 3.0.0: | |
368 | ||
369 | NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: | |
370 | ||
371 | - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the | |
372 | itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, | |
373 | and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish | |
374 | between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a | |
375 | revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a | |
376 | new device number, etc.). | |
377 | ||
378 | BUG FIXES: | |
379 | ||
380 | - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was | |
381 | run without specifying a --config=FILE option. | |
382 | ||
383 | - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. | |
384 | ||
385 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to | |
386 | not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date. | |
387 | ||
388 | - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. | |
389 | ||
390 | - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. | |
391 | ||
392 | - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: | |
393 | a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. | |
394 | ||
395 | - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom | |
396 | CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building | |
397 | of rounding.h fails. | |
398 | ||
399 | - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. | |
400 | ||
401 | - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver | |
402 | that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on | |
403 | the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse | |
404 | protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a | |
405 | file) was already working. | |
406 | ||
407 | - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that | |
408 | can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing, | |
409 | --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set. | |
410 | ||
411 | - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right | |
412 | modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. | |
413 | ||
414 | - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the | |
415 | exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as | |
416 | if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the | |
417 | user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages | |
418 | for these non-user-initiated rules. | |
419 | ||
420 | - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory | |
421 | handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. | |
422 | ||
423 | - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling. | |
424 | ||
425 | - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved. | |
426 | ||
427 | - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. | |
428 | ||
429 | - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no | |
430 | longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to- | |
431 | date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions, | |
432 | ownership, xattrs, etc.). | |
433 | ||
434 | - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs) | |
435 | because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, | |
436 | it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. | |
437 | ||
438 | - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could | |
439 | make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path. | |
440 | ||
441 | - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support | |
442 | wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs). | |
443 | ||
444 | - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. | |
445 | ||
446 | - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that | |
447 | rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). | |
448 | ||
449 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
450 | ||
451 | - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to | |
452 | ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than | |
453 | having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually). | |
454 | ||
455 | - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file | |
456 | listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the | |
457 | --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue. | |
458 | ||
459 | - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. | |
460 | ||
461 | - Improved the documentation of the --append option. | |
462 | ||
463 | - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon | |
464 | parameters. | |
465 | ||
466 | INTERNAL: | |
467 | ||
468 | - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I | |
469 | sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release). | |
470 | ||
471 | - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper | |
472 | normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should | |
473 | not have caused problems, though.) | |
474 | ||
475 | - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the | |
476 | "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory | |
477 | churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned | |
478 | args. | |
479 | ||
480 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
481 | ||
482 | - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about | |
483 | unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of | |
484 | the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. | |
485 | ||
486 | - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the | |
487 | included popt code should be used or not. | |
488 | ||
489 | - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command | |
490 | outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made | |
491 | the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should | |
492 | expect hard-linked symlinks or not. | |
493 | ||
494 | - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed. | |
495 | ||
496 | - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the | |
497 | rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file. | |
498 | ||
499 | - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory | |
500 | structure. | |
501 | ||
502 | \f | |
3cbe640d WD |
503 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008) |
504 | Protocol: 30 (changed) | |
505 | Changes since 2.6.9: | |
506 | ||
507 | NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: | |
508 | ||
509 | - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to | |
510 | send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). | |
511 | This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most | |
512 | people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having | |
513 | an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the | |
514 | transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as | |
515 | separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) | |
516 | Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. | |
517 | ||
518 | - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now | |
519 | sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r | |
520 | along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not | |
521 | understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to | |
522 | either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. | |
523 | ||
524 | - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output | |
525 | with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. | |
526 | Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". | |
527 | ||
528 | - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a | |
529 | symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also | |
530 | allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has | |
531 | the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's | |
532 | hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. | |
533 | ||
534 | - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile | |
535 | for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit | |
536 | with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync | |
537 | daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic | |
538 | breaking of locks to be done). | |
539 | ||
540 | BUG FIXES: | |
541 | ||
542 | - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon | |
543 | config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these | |
544 | options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, | |
545 | --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. | |
546 | ||
547 | - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation | |
548 | on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable | |
549 | daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't | |
550 | taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use | |
551 | it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- | |
552 | translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter | |
553 | for full details. | |
554 | ||
555 | - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the | |
556 | chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the | |
557 | module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for | |
558 | libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the | |
559 | rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside | |
560 | ||
561 | - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the | |
562 | rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the | |
563 | --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option | |
564 | was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated | |
565 | source file. | |
566 | ||
567 | - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: | |
568 | it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. | |
569 | ||
570 | - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest | |
571 | option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for | |
572 | matching items. | |
573 | ||
574 | - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a | |
575 | signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being | |
576 | able to get the exit status from the script. | |
577 | ||
578 | - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the | |
579 | negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. | |
580 | ||
581 | - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it | |
582 | no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. | |
583 | ||
584 | - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" | |
585 | files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the | |
586 | copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. | |
587 | ||
588 | - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains | |
589 | and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this | |
590 | option to control a remote shell's password prompt. | |
591 | ||
592 | - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination | |
593 | directory are handled right when --perms is left off. | |
594 | ||
595 | - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now | |
596 | output as a creation event, not a change event. | |
597 | ||
598 | - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly | |
599 | when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. | |
600 | ||
601 | - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. | |
602 | ||
603 | - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: | |
604 | any missing backup directories are now created. | |
605 | ||
606 | - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or | |
607 | --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. | |
608 | ||
609 | - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. | |
610 | ||
611 | - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code | |
612 | now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). | |
613 | ||
614 | - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we | |
615 | are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems | |
616 | when transfering read-only files. | |
617 | ||
618 | - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at | |
619 | the end of the run about a partial transfer. | |
620 | ||
621 | - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more | |
622 | options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, | |
623 | --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. | |
624 | ||
625 | - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older | |
626 | versions would update some files while writing the batch). | |
627 | ||
628 | - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken | |
629 | symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code | |
630 | already handled this for --copy-links). | |
631 | ||
632 | - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. | |
633 | ||
634 | - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's | |
635 | owner when rsync is running as the same user. | |
636 | ||
1fe0d142 WD |
637 | - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is |
638 | kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so | |
639 | that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of | |
640 | blocks increases. | |
641 | ||
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642 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
643 | ||
644 | - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking | |
645 | to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly | |
646 | (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. | |
647 | See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. | |
648 | ||
649 | - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical | |
650 | option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). | |
651 | ||
652 | - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a | |
653 | 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is | |
654 | the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with | |
655 | the new incremental recursion mode. | |
656 | ||
657 | - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than | |
658 | having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- | |
659 | shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one | |
660 | (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that | |
661 | local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . | |
662 | ||
663 | - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of | |
664 | the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args | |
665 | to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, | |
666 | and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). | |
667 | ||
668 | - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete | |
669 | files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. | |
670 | ||
671 | - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is | |
672 | an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even | |
673 | supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, | |
674 | ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches | |
675 | dir. | |
676 | ||
677 | - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is | |
678 | an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even | |
679 | supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you | |
680 | need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of | |
681 | rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. | |
682 | ||
683 | - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve | |
684 | all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. | |
685 | It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. | |
686 | There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. | |
687 | ||
688 | - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from | |
689 | one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to | |
690 | make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). | |
691 | If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then | |
692 | rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by | |
693 | default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default | |
694 | value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, | |
695 | "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an | |
696 | explanation of the --iconv option's settings. | |
697 | ||
698 | - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- | |
699 | set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You | |
700 | can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the | |
701 | client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). | |
702 | ||
703 | - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of | |
704 | file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). | |
705 | ||
706 | - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: | |
707 | *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg | |
708 | The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. | |
709 | ||
710 | - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file | |
711 | deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older | |
712 | versions just silently stopped deleting things.) | |
713 | ||
714 | - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn | |
715 | about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure | |
716 | what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, | |
717 | as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though | |
718 | older versions don't warn). | |
719 | ||
720 | - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and | |
721 | receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a | |
722 | hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the | |
723 | receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data | |
724 | sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more | |
725 | data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information | |
726 | to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving | |
727 | side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept | |
728 | the device+inode information on both sides). | |
729 | ||
730 | - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules | |
731 | that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. | |
732 | -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. | |
733 | ||
734 | - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. | |
735 | --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory | |
736 | that does not exist. | |
737 | ||
0f715920 WD |
738 | - If we get an ENOSYS error setting the time on a symlink, we don't |
739 | complain about it anymore (for those systems that even support the | |
740 | setting of the modify-time on a symlink). | |
3cbe640d WD |
741 | |
742 | - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4. | |
743 | ||
744 | - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the | |
745 | destination file, which speeds up file appending. | |
746 | ||
747 | - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append | |
748 | option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For | |
749 | compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is | |
750 | talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. | |
751 | ||
752 | - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a | |
753 | connection timeout for rsync daemon access. | |
754 | ||
755 | - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable | |
756 | that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. | |
757 | ||
758 | - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. | |
759 | ||
760 | - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. | |
761 | ||
762 | INTERNAL: | |
763 | ||
764 | - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- | |
765 | named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows | |
766 | rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one | |
767 | that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster | |
768 | than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). | |
769 | ||
770 | - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). | |
771 | ||
772 | - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing | |
773 | through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. | |
774 | ||
775 | - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. | |
776 | ||
777 | - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters | |
778 | easier without forcing variables via casts. | |
779 | ||
780 | - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. | |
781 | ||
782 | - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of | |
783 | string-handling functions. | |
784 | ||
785 | - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. | |
786 | ||
787 | - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a | |
788 | compiler warning. | |
789 | ||
790 | - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. | |
791 | ||
792 | - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and | |
793 | omitted the --server option. | |
794 | ||
795 | - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than | |
796 | the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new | |
797 | categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing | |
798 | an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be | |
799 | transferred. | |
800 | ||
801 | - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. | |
802 | ||
803 | - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing | |
804 | older sections of a pool's memory. | |
805 | ||
806 | - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with | |
807 | some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a | |
808 | better license than the old code. | |
809 | ||
810 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
811 | ||
812 | - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. | |
813 | ||
814 | - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS | |
815 | (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). | |
816 | Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. | |
817 | ||
818 | - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The | |
819 | autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the | |
820 | normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all | |
821 | generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the | |
822 | prepare-source script's fetch option). | |
823 | ||
824 | - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the | |
825 | rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). | |
826 | This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named | |
827 | rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. | |
828 | ||
829 | - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a | |
830 | complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. | |
831 | ||
832 | - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- | |
833 | directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows | |
834 | someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is | |
835 | useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, | |
836 | but another filesystem does). | |
837 | ||
838 | - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the | |
839 | development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync | |
840 | versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. | |
841 | This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may | |
842 | interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not | |
843 | interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which | |
844 | does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be | |
845 | incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). | |
846 | ||
847 | - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change | |
848 | in the 3.0.0 release. | |
849 | ||
850 | \f | |
2955529b WD |
851 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) |
852 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
853 | Changes since 2.6.8: | |
854 | ||
855 | BUG FIXES: | |
856 | ||
857 | - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will | |
858 | once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. | |
859 | ||
860 | - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, | |
861 | --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if | |
862 | the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, | |
863 | these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references | |
864 | (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code | |
865 | incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter | |
866 | how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. | |
867 | ||
868 | - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent | |
869 | directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the | |
870 | generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should | |
871 | also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from | |
872 | the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client | |
873 | process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was | |
874 | receiving files.) | |
875 | ||
876 | - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we | |
877 | update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now | |
878 | notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file | |
879 | instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file. | |
880 | ||
881 | - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path | |
882 | relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option | |
883 | gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. | |
884 | ||
885 | - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the | |
886 | destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell | |
887 | when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). | |
888 | ||
889 | - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip | |
890 | trying to update everything that is inside that directory. | |
891 | ||
892 | - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync | |
893 | will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file | |
894 | even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. | |
895 | ||
896 | - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a | |
897 | chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps | |
898 | from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone | |
899 | over and over again). | |
900 | ||
901 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: | |
902 | it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used | |
903 | to successfully update a destination file. | |
904 | ||
905 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir | |
906 | merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and | |
907 | only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is | |
908 | done for global include/excludes). | |
909 | ||
910 | - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from | |
911 | the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. | |
912 | ||
913 | - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of | |
914 | the filesystem with --relative enabled. | |
915 | ||
916 | - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write | |
917 | permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a | |
918 | problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace | |
919 | will not update a file that has no write permissions). | |
920 | ||
921 | - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we | |
922 | are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. | |
923 | ||
924 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created | |
925 | directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. | |
926 | ||
927 | - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being | |
928 | overly long. | |
929 | ||
930 | - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no | |
931 | longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since | |
932 | the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they | |
933 | may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). | |
934 | ||
935 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
936 | ||
937 | - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These | |
938 | can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. | |
939 | They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man | |
940 | page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf | |
941 | settings when starting a daemon. | |
942 | ||
943 | - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing | |
944 | it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an | |
945 | alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) | |
946 | ||
947 | - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in | |
948 | the daemon's config file. | |
949 | ||
950 | - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now | |
951 | deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all | |
952 | non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already | |
953 | up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that | |
954 | was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind | |
955 | a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. | |
956 | (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and | |
957 | still behaves in the same way as before.) | |
958 | ||
959 | - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output | |
960 | from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) | |
961 | ||
962 | - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in | |
963 | the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in | |
4eeaa162 WD |
964 | both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used as a unique ID |
965 | if the pre-xfer command wants to cache some arg/request info for the | |
966 | post-xfer command. | |
2955529b WD |
967 | |
968 | INTERNAL: | |
969 | ||
970 | - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several | |
971 | changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() | |
972 | calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to | |
973 | an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum | |
974 | values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some | |
975 | functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that | |
976 | could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive | |
977 | that conditionally compiles the code. | |
978 | ||
979 | - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a | |
980 | top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). | |
981 | ||
982 | - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. | |
983 | The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function | |
984 | was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that | |
985 | any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. | |
986 | ||
987 | - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already | |
988 | define it. | |
989 | ||
990 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
991 | ||
992 | - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to | |
993 | make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. | |
994 | The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD | |
995 | compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended | |
996 | file-attributes. | |
997 | ||
998 | - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to | |
999 | maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info | |
1000 | without actually running as root. It does this using a special | |
1001 | extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on | |
1002 | acls.diff). | |
1003 | ||
1004 | - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work | |
1005 | better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. | |
1006 | ||
1007 | - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions. | |
1008 | ||
1009 | - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have | |
1010 | consistent opening comments. | |
1011 | ||
1012 | \f | |
60ef8ed1 WD |
1013 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006) |
1014 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
1015 | Changes since 2.6.7: | |
1016 | ||
1017 | BUG FIXES: | |
1018 | ||
1019 | - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any | |
1020 | wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative | |
1021 | is in effect. | |
1022 | ||
1023 | - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the | |
1024 | receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call | |
1025 | never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about | |
1026 | the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). | |
1027 | ||
1028 | - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as | |
1029 | that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position | |
1030 | beyond the failed read's data. | |
1031 | ||
1032 | - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored | |
1033 | in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by | |
1034 | init). | |
1035 | ||
1036 | - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit | |
1037 | instead of silently ignoring the option. | |
1038 | ||
1039 | - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as | |
1040 | fifos) from being linked. | |
1041 | ||
1042 | - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at | |
1043 | configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest | |
1044 | creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. | |
1045 | ||
1046 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
1047 | ||
1048 | - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the | |
1049 | error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. | |
1050 | ||
1051 | - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the | |
1052 | message. | |
1053 | ||
1054 | - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options. | |
1055 | ||
1056 | - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex | |
1057 | that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. | |
1058 | ||
1059 | - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the | |
1060 | attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) | |
1061 | taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. | |
1062 | ||
1063 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
1064 | ||
1065 | - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable | |
1066 | io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also | |
1067 | elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message. | |
1068 | ||
1069 | - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) | |
1070 | compatibility functions. | |
1071 | ||
1072 | - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential | |
1073 | buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code. | |
1074 | ||
1075 | - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. | |
1076 | ||
1077 | - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of | |
1078 | a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its | |
1079 | actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present). | |
1080 | ||
1081 | \f | |
f171bf5b WD |
1082 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006) |
1083 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
1084 | Changes since 2.6.6: | |
1085 | ||
1086 | OUTPUT CHANGES: | |
1087 | ||
1088 | - The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices | |
1089 | (character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and | |
1090 | named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files | |
1091 | under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the | |
1092 | "--specials" option, below. | |
1093 | ||
1094 | - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync | |
1095 | now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in | |
1096 | your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before | |
1097 | for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of | |
1098 | "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal | |
1099 | digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename | |
1100 | (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only | |
1101 | escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9) | |
1102 | (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also | |
1103 | the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below. | |
1104 | ||
1105 | Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names, | |
1106 | so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd | |
1107 | suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the | |
1108 | old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6. | |
1109 | ||
1110 | BUG FIXES: | |
1111 | ||
1112 | - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the | |
1113 | files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). | |
1114 | ||
1115 | - Fixed a potential hang in a remote generator: when the receiver gets a | |
1116 | read-error on the socket, it now signals the generator about this so that | |
1117 | the generator does not try to send any of the terminating error messages | |
1118 | to the client (avoiding a potential hang in some setups). | |
1119 | ||
1120 | - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. | |
1121 | ||
1122 | - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this | |
1123 | error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting | |
1124 | it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors). | |
1125 | ||
1126 | - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the | |
1127 | permissions without recreating the file. | |
1128 | ||
1129 | - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, | |
1130 | we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination | |
1131 | hostspec as a filename. | |
1132 | ||
1133 | - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with | |
1134 | permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when | |
1135 | the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. | |
1136 | ||
1137 | - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output | |
1138 | algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. | |
1139 | ||
1140 | - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() | |
1141 | fails. | |
1142 | ||
1143 | - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. | |
1144 | ||
1145 | - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to | |
1146 | require at least -vv for the error to be seen). | |
1147 | ||
1148 | - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle | |
1149 | the exit status properly and generate a better error. | |
1150 | ||
1151 | - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, | |
1152 | --link-dest, or --compare-dest. Also improved how the verbose output | |
1153 | handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate | |
1154 | "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest). | |
1155 | ||
1156 | - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files | |
1157 | that have a path component containing a slash. | |
1158 | ||
549a3efb WD |
1159 | - If the code reading a filter/exclude file gets an EINTR error, rsync now |
1160 | clears the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. | |
f171bf5b WD |
1161 | |
1162 | - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." | |
1163 | suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now | |
1164 | reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. | |
1165 | ||
1166 | - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with | |
1167 | --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able | |
1168 | to opendir() the not-yet present directory. | |
1169 | ||
1170 | - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was | |
1171 | also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning | |
1172 | about being unable to create the missing directory. | |
1173 | ||
1174 | - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the | |
1175 | destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or | |
1176 | device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no | |
1177 | longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir. | |
1178 | ||
1179 | - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied | |
1180 | directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative). | |
1181 | ||
1182 | - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with | |
1183 | --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during). | |
1184 | ||
1185 | - Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this | |
1186 | when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error). | |
1187 | ||
1188 | - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it | |
1189 | was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a | |
1190 | user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing | |
1191 | daemon-rsync connection. | |
1192 | ||
1193 | - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer | |
1194 | forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave | |
1195 | it set. | |
1196 | ||
1197 | - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong | |
1198 | checksum for the current file offset. | |
1199 | ||
1200 | - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non- | |
1201 | directory destination arg. | |
1202 | ||
1203 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
1204 | ||
1205 | - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that | |
1206 | are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files). | |
1207 | ||
1208 | - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the | |
1209 | transfer. | |
1210 | ||
1211 | - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive | |
1212 | rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). | |
1213 | ||
1214 | - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to | |
1215 | allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024) | |
1216 | and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). | |
1217 | ||
1218 | - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping | |
1219 | high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale. | |
1220 | ||
1221 | - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress, | |
1222 | --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated, | |
1223 | the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old | |
1224 | meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you | |
1225 | just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".) | |
1226 | ||
1227 | - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the | |
1228 | preservation of attributes on symlinks. | |
1229 | ||
1230 | - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible). | |
1231 | ||
1232 | - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" and | |
1233 | "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a per-module | |
1234 | basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. (See | |
1235 | the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with | |
1236 | information about the transfer.) | |
1237 | ||
1238 | - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in | |
1239 | the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs | |
1240 | should start. For example, if you specify a source path of | |
1241 | rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only | |
1242 | replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing | |
1243 | dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). | |
1244 | ||
1245 | - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted | |
1246 | implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive | |
1247 | --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership | |
1248 | that is implied by -a. | |
1249 | ||
1250 | - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to | |
1251 | be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx | |
1252 | ||
1253 | - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow | |
1254 | a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all | |
1255 | files copied to and from the daemon. | |
1256 | ||
1257 | - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which | |
1258 | sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. | |
1259 | ||
1260 | - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now | |
1261 | delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. | |
1262 | ||
1263 | - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without | |
1264 | --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files | |
1265 | with the backup suffix are not deleted. | |
1266 | ||
1267 | - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to | |
1268 | better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: | |
1269 | "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file | |
1270 | to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of | |
1271 | a total of 9999. | |
1272 | ||
1273 | - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing | |
1274 | stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the | |
1275 | dir (dir/** would not match the dir). | |
1276 | ||
1277 | - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync | |
1278 | discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it | |
1279 | easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with | |
1280 | just the directories needed to hold the resulting files. | |
1281 | ||
1282 | - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes | |
1283 | unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all | |
1284 | the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the | |
1285 | client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only | |
1286 | needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. | |
1287 | ||
1288 | - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special | |
1289 | files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices | |
1290 | option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block). | |
1291 | The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a | |
1292 | still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that | |
1293 | omits device copying. | |
1294 | ||
1295 | - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user | |
1296 | activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices | |
1297 | to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also | |
1298 | useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the | |
1299 | receiving rsync isn't being run as root. | |
1300 | ||
1301 | - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP | |
1302 | options used to contact a daemon rsync. | |
1303 | ||
1304 | - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir | |
1305 | setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when | |
1306 | --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight). | |
1307 | ||
1308 | - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files | |
1309 | into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files. | |
1310 | ||
1311 | - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the | |
1312 | execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is | |
1313 | not desired. | |
1314 | ||
1315 | - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request | |
1316 | that it receives. | |
1317 | ||
1318 | - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B | |
1319 | (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt"). | |
1320 | ||
1321 | - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose. | |
1322 | ||
1323 | - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally | |
1324 | removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to | |
1325 | clump up all the removals at the end). | |
1326 | ||
1327 | - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard | |
1328 | PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator | |
1329 | can get the child-exit status from the receiver. | |
1330 | ||
1331 | - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync | |
1332 | sending error messages about invalid/refused options. | |
1333 | ||
1334 | - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg | |
1335 | and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like | |
1336 | the comparable situation with a remote source arg. | |
1337 | ||
1338 | - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links. | |
1339 | ||
1340 | - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some | |
1341 | improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of | |
1342 | --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and | |
1343 | --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved | |
1344 | discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern | |
1345 | matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the | |
1346 | documenting of what the --stats option outputs. | |
1347 | ||
1348 | - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff, | |
1349 | xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff. | |
1350 | ||
1351 | INTERNAL: | |
1352 | ||
1353 | - We now use sigaction() and sigprocmask() if possible, and fall back on | |
1354 | signal() if not. Using sigprocmask() ensures that rsync enables all the | |
1355 | signals that it needs, just in case it was started in a masked state. | |
1356 | ||
1357 | - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where | |
1358 | MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). | |
1359 | ||
1360 | - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit | |
1361 | with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. | |
1362 | ||
1363 | - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining | |
1364 | the VA_COPY macro. | |
1365 | ||
1366 | - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory | |
1367 | recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. | |
1368 | ||
1369 | - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be | |
1370 | supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less | |
1371 | string copying. | |
1372 | ||
1373 | - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and | |
1374 | replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the | |
1375 | output going to the terminal. | |
1376 | ||
1377 | - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. | |
1378 | ||
1379 | - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make | |
1380 | it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster. | |
1381 | ||
1382 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
1383 | ||
1384 | - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of | |
1385 | the previous -p0. Also, the version included in the release tar now | |
1386 | affect generated files (e.g. configure, rsync.1, proto.h, etc.), so | |
1387 | it is no longer necessary to run autoconf and/or yodl unless you're | |
1388 | applying a patch that was checked out from CVS. | |
1389 | ||
1390 | - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO | |
1391 | configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of | |
1392 | the newly patched feature. | |
1393 | ||
1394 | - There is a new script, "prepare-source" than can be used to update the | |
1395 | various generated files (proto.h, configure, etc.) even before configure | |
1396 | has created the Makefile (this is mainly useful when patching the source | |
1397 | with a patch that doesn't affect generated files). | |
1398 | ||
1399 | - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affected by a file such | |
1400 | as ~/.popt. | |
1401 | ||
1402 | \f | |
f90f7149 WD |
1403 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (28 Jul 2005) |
1404 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
1405 | Changes since 2.6.5: | |
1406 | ||
1407 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
1408 | ||
1409 | - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more | |
1410 | secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did | |
1411 | not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's | |
1412 | zlib 1.1.4. | |
1413 | ||
1414 | BUG FIXES: | |
1415 | ||
1416 | - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list. | |
1417 | This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances | |
1418 | (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was | |
1419 | combined with --link-dest). | |
1420 | ||
1421 | - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right: | |
1578919c WD |
1422 | (1) Without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as |
1423 | though it had been changed; it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for | |
1424 | the file. (2) With -i it would output all dots for the unchanged | |
1425 | attributes of a hard-link; it now changes those dots to spaces, as is | |
1426 | done for other totally unchanged items. | |
f90f7149 WD |
1427 | |
1428 | - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup | |
1429 | item so that we don't get an "already exists" error. | |
1430 | ||
1431 | - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- | |
1432 | time were not honoring the --modify-window option. | |
1433 | ||
1434 | - Fixed a bug where the 'p' (permissions) itemized-changes flag might get | |
1435 | set too often (if some non-significant mode bits differed). | |
1436 | ||
1437 | - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being | |
1438 | unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the | |
1439 | directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that | |
1440 | ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing | |
1441 | destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version). | |
1442 | ||
1443 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
1444 | ||
1445 | - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a | |
1446 | per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). | |
1447 | ||
1448 | - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options | |
1449 | that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was | |
1450 | also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing | |
1451 | of a pull operation that has multiple sources. | |
1452 | ||
1453 | - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a | |
1454 | normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer. | |
1455 | ||
1456 | - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or | |
1457 | improved. | |
1458 | ||
1459 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
1460 | ||
1461 | - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and | |
1462 | NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we | |
1463 | find in the /etc/group file). | |
1464 | ||
1465 | - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of | |
1466 | -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. | |
1467 | ||
1468 | \f | |
a1c75ed0 WD |
1469 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005) |
1470 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
1471 | Changes since 2.6.4: | |
1472 | ||
1473 | OUTPUT CHANGES: | |
1474 | ||
1475 | - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- | |
1476 | escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is | |
1477 | output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash | |
1478 | is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which | |
1479 | can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. | |
1480 | ||
1481 | - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would | |
1482 | output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit | |
1483 | status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do | |
1484 | this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed | |
1485 | to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we | |
1486 | now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and | |
1487 | exit with the appropriate exit status. | |
1488 | ||
1489 | BUG FIXES: | |
1490 | ||
1491 | - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did | |
1492 | not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the | |
1493 | rsyncd.conf file. | |
1494 | ||
1495 | - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified | |
1496 | (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash). | |
1497 | ||
1498 | - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the | |
1499 | write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this | |
1500 | only caused an annoying warning message). | |
1501 | ||
1502 | - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the | |
1503 | basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i | |
1504 | is in effect. | |
1505 | ||
1506 | - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after | |
1507 | processing. | |
1508 | ||
1509 | - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in | |
1510 | addition to its use in daemon mode). | |
1511 | ||
1512 | - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete | |
1513 | processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a | |
1514 | newline. | |
1515 | ||
1516 | - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it | |
1517 | as a "directory", not a "file". | |
1518 | ||
1519 | - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any | |
1520 | generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to | |
1521 | the file by the destination filename. | |
1522 | ||
1523 | - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the | |
1524 | generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. | |
1525 | ||
1526 | - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked | |
1527 | to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest | |
1528 | of the cluster. | |
1529 | ||
1530 | - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync | |
1531 | no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the | |
1532 | receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove | |
1533 | the mount-point dir. | |
1534 | ||
1535 | - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and | |
1536 | sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. | |
1537 | ||
1538 | - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not | |
1539 | trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". | |
1540 | ||
1541 | - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't | |
1542 | handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. | |
1543 | ||
1544 | - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when | |
1545 | --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing | |
1546 | slash. | |
1547 | ||
1548 | - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then | |
1549 | re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive | |
1550 | (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a | |
1551 | trailing slash. | |
1552 | ||
1553 | - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. | |
1554 | ||
1555 | - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause | |
1556 | the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal | |
1557 | messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) | |
1558 | ||
1559 | - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if | |
1560 | "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent | |
1561 | dir of the destination). | |
1562 | ||
1563 | - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no | |
1564 | transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't | |
1565 | delete anything. | |
1566 | ||
1567 | - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the | |
1568 | "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. | |
1569 | ||
1570 | - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno | |
1571 | for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for | |
1572 | compatibility with OS variations). | |
1573 | ||
1574 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
1575 | ||
1576 | - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead | |
1577 | of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any | |
1578 | actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all | |
1579 | the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you | |
1580 | are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). | |
1581 | ||
1582 | - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer | |
1583 | (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now | |
1584 | periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver | |
1585 | can get started on the files sooner rather than later. | |
1586 | ||
1587 | - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the | |
1588 | sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving | |
1589 | the checksum data for a large file. | |
1590 | ||
1591 | - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include | |
1592 | some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user, | |
1593 | password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!) | |
1594 | ||
1595 | - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that | |
1596 | it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we | |
1597 | really did expect the socket to close). | |
1598 | ||
1599 | - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall | |
1600 | back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better | |
1601 | than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a | |
1602 | daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was | |
1603 | necessary to see the error on stderr). | |
1604 | ||
1605 | - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" | |
1606 | instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a | |
1607 | non-daemon transfer). | |
1608 | ||
1609 | - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the | |
1610 | support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options | |
1611 | when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of | |
1612 | other similar options being added at some point). | |
1613 | ||
1614 | INTERNAL: | |
1615 | ||
1616 | - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to | |
1617 | better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in | |
1618 | messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some | |
1619 | locales). | |
1620 | ||
1621 | - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. | |
1622 | ||
1623 | - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help | |
1624 | someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. | |
1625 | ||
1626 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
1627 | ||
1628 | - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of | |
1629 | setlocale() in the binary. | |
1630 | ||
1631 | - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented | |
1632 | rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. | |
1633 | ||
1634 | - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. | |
1635 | ||
1636 | - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they | |
1637 | refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). | |
1638 | ||
1639 | - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that | |
1640 | the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s | |
1641 | presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. | |
1642 | ||
1643 | - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell | |
1644 | (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release. | |
1645 | ||
1646 | - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. | |
1647 | ||
1648 | - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch | |
1649 | that enables the optional copying of extended attributes. | |
1650 | ||
1651 | \f | |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1652 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005) |
1653 | Protocol: 29 (changed) | |
1654 | Changes since 2.6.3: | |
1655 | ||
1656 | OUTPUT CHANGES: | |
1657 | ||
1658 | - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about | |
1659 | it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only | |
1660 | sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. | |
1661 | ||
1662 | - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both | |
1663 | sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are | |
1664 | being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). | |
1665 | (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) | |
1666 | ||
1667 | - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides | |
1668 | "send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). | |
1669 | This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. | |
1670 | ||
1671 | - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now | |
1672 | avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances. | |
1673 | As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer | |
1674 | items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to | |
1675 | the transfer, so --verbose is now the equivalent of a --log-format of | |
1676 | '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any link info). If the log output | |
1677 | must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time the name | |
1678 | is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was specified | |
1679 | (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the full | |
1680 | --log-format output will come after). | |
97e3c50c | 1681 | |
7c2a83c6 WD |
1682 | - Non-printable characters in filenames are replaced with a '?' to |
1683 | avoid corrupting the screen or generating empty lines in the output. | |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1684 | |
1685 | BUG FIXES: | |
1686 | ||
1687 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
1688 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
1689 | file). | |
1690 | ||
1691 | - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list | |
1692 | of changes that would be output without --dry-run. | |
1693 | ||
1694 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination | |
1695 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
1696 | ||
1697 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed | |
1698 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with | |
10a1a3f5 | 1699 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1700 | |
1701 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
1702 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
1703 | ||
1704 | - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could | |
1705 | merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a multiplexed | |
1706 | packet of data if only part of that data had been written out to the | |
1707 | socket when the message from the generator arrived. | |
1708 | ||
1709 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
1710 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in some compatibility code using | |
1711 | mkfifo() and socket() when necessary. | |
1712 | ||
1713 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. Also, | |
1714 | if the --max-delete limit is exceeded during a run, we now output a | |
1715 | warning about this at the end of the run and exit with a new error | |
1716 | code (25). | |
1717 | ||
1718 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. | |
1719 | ||
1720 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect | |
1721 | readable symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. | |
1722 | ||
1723 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will | |
1724 | affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try | |
1725 | to set the user and group of a symlink. | |
1726 | ||
1727 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time | |
1728 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
1729 | ||
1730 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, where DIR is a | |
1731 | relative path, the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
1732 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
1733 | ||
1734 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is | |
1735 | enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate | |
1736 | backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file). | |
1737 | ||
1738 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. | |
1739 | ||
1740 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a | |
1741 | server sender. | |
1742 | ||
1743 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the | |
1744 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a | |
1745 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure | |
1746 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have | |
1747 | exited with an error for large files). | |
1748 | ||
1749 | - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and | |
1750 | sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually | |
1751 | specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior | |
1752 | versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data | |
1753 | properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. | |
1754 | ||
1755 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not | |
1756 | being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about | |
1757 | the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was | |
1758 | specified) and exit with a new error code (6). | |
1759 | ||
1760 | - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options | |
1761 | (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, | |
1762 | there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). | |
1763 | ||
7eb2ecda WD |
1764 | - The output of the items that are being updated by the generator (dirs, |
1765 | symlinks, devices) is now intermingled in the proper order with the | |
1766 | output from the items that the receiver is updating (regular files) | |
1767 | when pulling. This misordering was particularly bad when --progress | |
1768 | was specified. (Requires protocol 29.) | |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1769 | |
1770 | - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while | |
1771 | the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic | |
1772 | (looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time | |
1773 | touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that | |
1774 | should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to | |
1775 | make progress. (Requires protocol 29.) | |
1776 | ||
1777 | - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the | |
1778 | items in the transfer (the size might be undefined on some OSes). | |
1779 | ||
1780 | - Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it | |
1781 | back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and | |
1782 | the daemon was the receiver. | |
1783 | ||
0f9941dc | 1784 | - The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differed in |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1785 | (the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR. |
1786 | ||
1787 | - When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed | |
1788 | the change-report output for the directory so that we don't report | |
1789 | an identical directory as changed. | |
1790 | ||
1791 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
1792 | ||
1793 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can | |
1794 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
1795 | ||
1796 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files | |
1797 | from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the | |
1798 | transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the | |
1799 | default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now also available as | |
1800 | --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that | |
1801 | will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without | |
1802 | a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so | |
1803 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any | |
1804 | file-deleting options (including the new --remove-sent-files option). | |
1805 | ||
1806 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: | |
1807 | Previously an duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the | |
1808 | receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new | |
1809 | algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files | |
1810 | inside the transfer). | |
1811 | ||
1812 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except | |
1813 | that it locally copies identical files instead of hard-linking them. | |
1814 | ||
1815 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or | |
1816 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the | |
1817 | patches dir and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.) | |
1818 | ||
1819 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) | |
1820 | ||
1821 | - The daemon-mode options are now separated from the normal rsync | |
1822 | options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it | |
1823 | impossible to start a daemon that has improper default option values | |
1824 | (which could cause problems when a client connects, such as hanging | |
1825 | or crashing). | |
1826 | ||
1827 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon | |
1828 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value | |
1829 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. | |
1830 | ||
1831 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from | |
1832 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". The command-line options | |
1833 | take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. | |
1834 | ||
1835 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received | |
1836 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
1837 | partial file. | |
1838 | ||
1839 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, | |
1840 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol | |
1841 | 29.) | |
1842 | ||
1843 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories | |
af6155bb WD |
1844 | without recursion. Any directories that are encountered are created |
1845 | on the destination. Specifying a directory with a trailing slash | |
1846 | copies its immediate contents to the destination. | |
1847 | ||
1848 | - The --files-from option now implies --dirs (-d). | |
1ad6a7f6 WD |
1849 | |
1850 | - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to | |
1851 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any | |
1852 | internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" | |
1853 | for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically | |
1854 | (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, | |
1855 | but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of | |
1856 | the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection. | |
1857 | ||
1858 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating | |
1859 | the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This | |
1860 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of | |
1861 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide | |
1862 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from | |
1863 | the patches dir.) | |
1864 | ||
1865 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter | |
1866 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
1867 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
1868 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
1869 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
1870 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
1871 | versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but | |
1872 | backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions. | |
1873 | (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) | |
1874 | ||
1875 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into | |
1876 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
1877 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
1878 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
1879 | ||
1880 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is | |
1881 | reduced. | |
1882 | ||
1883 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This | |
1884 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) | |
1885 | ||
1886 | - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index | |
1887 | they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a | |
1888 | non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone | |
1889 | very wrong). | |
1890 | ||
1891 | - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a | |
1892 | more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect | |
1893 | is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the | |
1894 | rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too. | |
1895 | ||
1896 | - Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file | |
1897 | for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm | |
1898 | only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it | |
1899 | does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file | |
1900 | was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy | |
1901 | name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it | |
1902 | needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and | |
1903 | enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.) | |
1904 | ||
1905 | - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files | |
1906 | between systems. | |
1907 | ||
1908 | - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal | |
1909 | enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6 | |
1910 | literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.) | |
1911 | ||
1912 | - When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open | |
1913 | one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs. | |
1914 | ||
1915 | - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to | |
1916 | avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync | |
1917 | to detach. | |
1918 | ||
1919 | - The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or | |
1920 | --read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see | |
1921 | what would happen without --dry-run. | |
1922 | ||
1923 | - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only | |
1924 | variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the | |
1925 | read-only side can succeed. | |
1926 | ||
1927 | - The log-format % escapes can now have a numeric field width in | |
1928 | between the % and the escape letter (e.g. "%-40n %08p"). | |
1929 | ||
1930 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. | |
1931 | ||
1932 | SUPPORT FILES: | |
1933 | ||
1934 | - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will | |
1935 | transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into | |
1936 | place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when | |
1937 | pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to | |
1938 | effect its update. | |
1939 | ||
1940 | - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the | |
1941 | /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will | |
1942 | exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The | |
1943 | excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly | |
1944 | anchored. | |
1945 | ||
1946 | - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make | |
1947 | a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test | |
1948 | for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and | |
1949 | the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error. | |
1950 | ||
1951 | - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe | |
1952 | Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only | |
1953 | certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
1954 | ||
1955 | INTERNAL: | |
1956 | ||
1957 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over | |
1958 | the socket. | |
1959 | ||
1960 | - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so | |
1961 | that it is easier to maintain. | |
1962 | ||
1963 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for | |
1964 | consistency and proper size. | |
1965 | ||
1966 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). | |
1967 | ||
1968 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. | |
1969 | ||
1970 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't | |
1971 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. | |
1972 | ||
1973 | PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: | |
1974 | ||
1975 | - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This | |
1976 | indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The | |
1977 | generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when | |
1978 | dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), | |
1979 | which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and | |
1980 | less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is | |
1981 | now outputting all the file-change info messages). | |
1982 | ||
1983 | - If a file is being hard-linked, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit is enabled | |
1984 | in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately | |
1985 | follows in vstring format (see below). | |
1986 | ||
1987 | - If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the | |
1988 | ITEM_BASIS_TYPE_FOLLOWS bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single | |
1989 | byte follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that | |
1990 | indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit | |
1991 | is set in the flag-word and the name of the match in vstring format | |
1992 | follows the basis byte. A vstring is a variable length string that | |
1993 | has its size written prior to the string, and no terminating null. | |
1994 | If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length is a single byte. If | |
1995 | it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is written as ((len >> 8) | | |
1996 | 0x80) followed by (len % 0x100). | |
1997 | ||
1998 | - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This | |
1999 | means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes | |
2000 | (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C | |
2001 | option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of | |
2002 | filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older | |
2003 | transfer scenarios). | |
2004 | ||
2005 | - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir | |
2006 | names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it | |
2007 | always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the | |
2008 | list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between | |
2009 | directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) | |
2010 | ||
2011 | - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request | |
2012 | is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and | |
2013 | the new --list-only option is included in the options. | |
2014 | ||
2015 | - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), | |
2016 | they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to | |
2017 | build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the | |
2018 | wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). | |
2019 | ||
2020 | - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA | |
2021 | excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to | |
2022 | the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in | |
2023 | this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that | |
2024 | survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the | |
2025 | filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other | |
2026 | side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list | |
2027 | that is sent in this scenario is often empty. | |
2028 | ||
2029 | - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet | |
2030 | from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the | |
2031 | receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive | |
2032 | packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit | |
2033 | (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone). | |
2034 | ||
2035 | - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs | |
2036 | option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell | |
2037 | script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead | |
2038 | of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. | |
2039 | ||
2040 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
2041 | ||
2042 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). | |
2043 | ||
2044 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. | |
a1c75ed0 WD |
2045 | |
2046 | \f | |
ca39ebf9 WD |
2047 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004) |
2048 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) | |
2049 | Changes since 2.6.2: | |
2050 | ||
2051 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
2052 | ||
2053 | - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted | |
2054 | rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get | |
2055 | transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for | |
2056 | file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot | |
2057 | disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run | |
2058 | rsync under is anything above "nobody". | |
2059 | ||
2060 | OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): | |
2061 | ||
2062 | - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the | |
2063 | term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If | |
2064 | you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script | |
2065 | would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the | |
2066 | indicator that the verbose output is over. | |
2067 | ||
2068 | - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change | |
2069 | "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". | |
2070 | ||
2071 | - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned | |
2072 | with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a | |
2073 | filename from causing an empty line to be output). | |
2074 | ||
2075 | - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose | |
2076 | options are specified is now the same both with and without the | |
2077 | --backup-dir option. | |
2078 | ||
2079 | BUG FIXES: | |
2080 | ||
2081 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and | |
2082 | multiple source directories were specified. | |
2083 | ||
2084 | - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the | |
2085 | checksums. | |
2086 | ||
2087 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories | |
2088 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). | |
2089 | ||
2090 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and | |
2091 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be | |
2092 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. | |
2093 | ||
2094 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed | |
2095 | data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis | |
2096 | file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer | |
2097 | retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. | |
2098 | (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be | |
2099 | older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and | |
2100 | older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read | |
2101 | error.) | |
2102 | ||
2103 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option | |
2104 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to | |
2105 | overwrite the original file in the backup area). | |
2106 | ||
2107 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config | |
2108 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module | |
2109 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. | |
2110 | ||
2111 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a | |
2112 | phase. | |
2113 | ||
2114 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves | |
2115 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. | |
2116 | ||
2117 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error | |
2118 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file | |
2119 | "vanished". | |
2120 | ||
2121 | - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling | |
2122 | the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks | |
2123 | option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. | |
2124 | ||
2125 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as | |
2126 | refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client | |
2127 | (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket | |
2128 | wasn't in the right state for the message to get through). | |
2129 | ||
2130 | - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now | |
2131 | returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are | |
2132 | intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this). | |
2133 | ||
2134 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the | |
2135 | batch-processing options. | |
2136 | ||
2137 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to | |
2138 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error | |
2139 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 | |
2140 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might | |
2141 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will | |
2142 | help). | |
2143 | ||
2144 | - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error | |
2145 | messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just | |
2146 | die with a socket-write error). | |
2147 | ||
2148 | - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are | |
2149 | hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure | |
2150 | that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename() | |
2151 | behavior). | |
2152 | ||
2153 | - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when | |
2154 | the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. | |
2155 | ||
2156 | - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we | |
2157 | can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered. | |
2158 | This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as | |
2159 | AIX and HP-UX. | |
2160 | ||
2161 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy | |
2162 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). | |
2163 | ||
2164 | - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not | |
2165 | exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be | |
2166 | sent instead of dying with a chdir() error. | |
2167 | ||
2168 | - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die | |
2169 | with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish. | |
2170 | ||
2171 | - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the | |
2172 | user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g. | |
2173 | using the "2>&1"). | |
2174 | ||
920240a6 WD |
2175 | - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from got passed to a daemon. |
2176 | ||
ca39ebf9 WD |
2177 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
2178 | ||
2179 | - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to | |
2180 | (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- | |
2181 | writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial | |
2182 | Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable | |
2183 | that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as | |
2184 | the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory. | |
2185 | ||
2186 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory | |
2187 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it | |
2188 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. | |
2189 | ||
2190 | - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination | |
2191 | file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data | |
2192 | in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there | |
2193 | are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). | |
2194 | Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). | |
2195 | ||
2196 | - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. | |
2197 | ||
2198 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) | |
2199 | and documented all these options in the man page. | |
2200 | ||
2201 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less | |
2202 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of | |
2203 | values. | |
2204 | ||
2205 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and | |
2206 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. | |
2207 | ||
2208 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. | |
2209 | ||
2210 | - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, | |
2211 | fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer | |
2212 | sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different | |
2213 | systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier | |
2214 | to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data | |
2215 | file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on | |
2216 | stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the | |
2217 | same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed. | |
2218 | ||
2219 | - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its | |
2220 | presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to | |
2221 | authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get | |
2222 | if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real | |
2223 | error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module | |
2224 | names. | |
2225 | ||
2226 | - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match | |
2227 | option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. | |
2228 | ||
2229 | - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time | |
2230 | updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the | |
2231 | finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions | |
2232 | disallowed all group and world access. | |
2233 | ||
2234 | - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL | |
2235 | (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir). | |
2236 | ||
2237 | - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000 | |
2238 | filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired | |
2239 | limit). | |
2240 | ||
2241 | INTERNAL: | |
2242 | ||
2243 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory | |
2244 | and made the code easier to maintain. | |
2245 | ||
2246 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a | |
2247 | lot of args. | |
2248 | ||
2249 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf() | |
2250 | with strerror() as an arg. | |
2251 | ||
2252 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both | |
2253 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file | |
2254 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of | |
2255 | them). | |
2256 | ||
2257 | - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a | |
2258 | crawl if the block size got too large). | |
2259 | ||
2260 | - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). | |
2261 | ||
2262 | - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions | |
2263 | makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still | |
2264 | being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both | |
2265 | sides when sending the file-list). | |
2266 | ||
2267 | - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer | |
2268 | arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's | |
2269 | functionality into the latter. | |
2270 | ||
2271 | - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are | |
2272 | specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is | |
2273 | not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver). | |
2274 | ||
2275 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
2276 | ||
2277 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, | |
2278 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. | |
2279 | ||
2280 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the | |
2281 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be | |
2282 | updated). | |
2283 | ||
2284 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip | |
2285 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems | |
2286 | have $STRIP already set in the environment. | |
2287 | ||
2288 | - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. | |
2289 | ||
2290 | - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to | |
2291 | be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it). | |
2292 | ||
2293 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
2294 | ||
2295 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few | |
2296 | new tests added. | |
2297 | ||
2298 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted | |
2299 | ones were removed. | |
2300 | ||
2301 | \f | |
c7be6dec WD |
2302 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004) |
2303 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) | |
2304 | Changes since 2.6.1: | |
2305 | ||
2306 | BUG FIXES: | |
2307 | ||
2308 | - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative | |
2309 | is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were | |
2310 | affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list | |
2311 | item when requesting changes from the sender. | |
2312 | ||
2313 | - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to | |
2314 | better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system. | |
2315 | ||
2316 | - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages | |
2317 | rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix | |
2318 | will be sought in the future.) | |
2319 | ||
2320 | - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid | |
2321 | code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.) | |
2322 | ||
2323 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
2324 | ||
2325 | - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used | |
2326 | and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the | |
2327 | broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an | |
2328 | NFS build-dir. | |
2329 | ||
2330 | - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define | |
2331 | AI_NUMERICHOST. | |
2332 | ||
2333 | - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that | |
2334 | don't support __attribute__. | |
2335 | ||
2336 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
2337 | ||
2338 | - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1. | |
2339 | ||
2340 | - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir. | |
2341 | ||
2342 | \f | |
2343 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004) | |
2344 | Protocol: 28 (changed) | |
2345 | Changes since 2.6.0: | |
2346 | ||
2347 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
2348 | ||
2349 | - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when | |
2350 | chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync | |
2351 | daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the | |
2352 | user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody". | |
2353 | ||
2354 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2355 | ||
2356 | - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket, | |
2357 | and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details). | |
2358 | ||
2359 | - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a | |
2360 | "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. | |
2361 | (Bardur Arantsson) | |
2362 | ||
2363 | - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer | |
2364 | we are, including both a count of files transferred and a | |
2365 | percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also | |
2366 | shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time | |
2367 | values. | |
2368 | ||
2369 | - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis- | |
2370 | understood features more clearly. | |
2371 | ||
2372 | BUG FIXES: | |
2373 | ||
2374 | - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or | |
2375 | --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the | |
2376 | referent file is on a different filesystem. | |
2377 | ||
2378 | - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when | |
2379 | (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was | |
2380 | specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on | |
2381 | the destination and -g was specified. | |
2382 | ||
2383 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause | |
2384 | the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get | |
2385 | overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). | |
2386 | ||
2387 | - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of | |
2388 | each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer | |
2389 | with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file | |
10a1a3f5 | 2390 | than the current basis file when no new data has been transferred |
c7be6dec WD |
2391 | over the wire for that file. |
2392 | ||
2393 | - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines. | |
2394 | (Jay Fenlason) | |
2395 | ||
2396 | - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a | |
2397 | per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one | |
2398 | directory (not all following directories too). The items are also | |
2399 | now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing. | |
2400 | ||
2401 | - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part | |
2402 | can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to | |
2403 | find the HOST, not the first). | |
2404 | ||
2405 | - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users: | |
2406 | (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name | |
2407 | for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in | |
2408 | that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer | |
2409 | attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission | |
2410 | to set. | |
2411 | ||
2412 | - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. | |
2413 | ||
2414 | - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount- | |
2415 | point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that | |
2416 | it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount- | |
2417 | point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the | |
2418 | original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be | |
2419 | ignoring. | |
2420 | ||
2421 | - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename | |
2422 | when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names | |
2423 | that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). | |
2424 | ||
2425 | - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with | |
2426 | or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as | |
2427 | --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative | |
2428 | one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless. | |
2429 | Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the | |
2430 | module's base dir when chroot is not enabled. | |
2431 | ||
2432 | - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync | |
2433 | versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without | |
2434 | telling us that --backup-dir was specified. | |
2435 | ||
2436 | - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process | |
2437 | now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems | |
2438 | that have a length field in their socket structs. | |
2439 | ||
2440 | - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending | |
2441 | files to an rsync daemon. | |
2442 | ||
920240a6 WD |
2443 | - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from was sent to a server |
2444 | sender. | |
2445 | ||
c7be6dec WD |
2446 | INTERNAL: |
2447 | ||
2448 | - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large | |
2449 | speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) | |
2450 | ||
2451 | - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some | |
2452 | significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets. | |
2453 | ||
2454 | - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent. | |
2455 | ||
2456 | - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. | |
2457 | (J.W. Schultz) | |
2458 | ||
2459 | - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up | |
2460 | the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) | |
2461 | ||
2462 | - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the | |
2463 | group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This | |
2464 | prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new | |
2465 | hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically | |
2466 | earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the | |
2467 | receiving side. | |
2468 | ||
2469 | - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released | |
2470 | 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25 | |
2471 | (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, | |
2472 | severally) | |
2473 | ||
2474 | - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). | |
2475 | ||
2476 | - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). | |
2477 | ||
2478 | - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. | |
2479 | ||
2480 | - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). | |
2481 | ||
2482 | - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list | |
2483 | during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory | |
2484 | bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). | |
2485 | Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, | |
2486 | resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving | |
2487 | side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions | |
2488 | are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way | |
2489 | for the entire transfer. | |
2490 | ||
2491 | - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation | |
2492 | pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits | |
2493 | freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2494 | ||
2495 | - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes | |
2496 | (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and | |
2497 | the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the | |
2498 | "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from | |
2499 | the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator | |
2500 | over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and | |
2501 | verbose --stats output). | |
2502 | ||
2503 | - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a | |
2504 | little more optimized. | |
2505 | ||
2506 | - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as | |
2507 | separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28). | |
2508 | Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit | |
2509 | number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more | |
2510 | compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the | |
2511 | connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the | |
2512 | binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in | |
2513 | fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is | |
2514 | now available. | |
2515 | ||
2516 | - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made | |
2517 | things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient. | |
2518 | ||
2519 | - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now | |
2520 | handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the | |
2521 | wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the | |
2522 | batch code is still considered to be experimental.) | |
2523 | ||
2524 | BUILD CHANGES: | |
2525 | ||
2526 | - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to | |
2527 | override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. | |
2528 | ||
2529 | - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". | |
2530 | ||
2531 | - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with | |
2532 | sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). | |
2533 | ||
2534 | DEVELOPER RELATED: | |
2535 | ||
2536 | - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. | |
2537 | ||
2538 | - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones | |
2539 | that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. | |
2540 | ||
2541 | \f | |
0f1aa0d3 WD |
2542 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) |
2543 | Protocol: 27 (changed) | |
2544 | Changes since 2.5.7: | |
2545 | ||
2546 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2547 | ||
2548 | * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to | |
2549 | change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". | |
2550 | ||
2551 | * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. | |
2552 | Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the | |
2553 | files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) | |
2554 | ||
2555 | * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version | |
2556 | 27. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2557 | ||
2558 | * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The | |
2559 | per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm | |
2560 | provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync | |
2561 | algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 | |
2562 | checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) | |
2563 | ||
2564 | * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary | |
2565 | unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. | |
2566 | ||
2567 | * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the | |
2568 | sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the | |
2569 | file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. | |
2570 | ||
2571 | * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. | |
2572 | ||
2573 | BUG FIXES: | |
2574 | ||
2575 | * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. | |
2576 | This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the | |
2577 | matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not | |
2578 | cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like | |
2579 | what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) | |
2580 | ||
2581 | - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. | |
2582 | For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. | |
2583 | [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the | |
2584 | "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all | |
2585 | versions.] | |
2586 | ||
2587 | - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo | |
2588 | does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] | |
2589 | ||
2590 | - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of | |
2591 | the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, | |
2592 | just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" | |
2593 | to get the old behavior in all versions.] | |
2594 | ||
2595 | - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched | |
2596 | against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if | |
2597 | there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" | |
2598 | would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as | |
2599 | "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the | |
2600 | old behavior in all versions.] | |
2601 | ||
2602 | * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now | |
2603 | properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the | |
2604 | user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) | |
2605 | ||
2606 | * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the | |
2607 | block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. | |
2608 | Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. | |
2609 | (Craig Barratt) | |
2610 | ||
2611 | * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in | |
2612 | mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit | |
2613 | counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for | |
2614 | file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) | |
2615 | ||
2616 | * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and | |
2617 | multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. | |
2618 | (Wayne Davison) | |
2619 | ||
2620 | * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. | |
2621 | ||
2622 | * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. | |
2623 | ||
2624 | * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more | |
2625 | consistent manner. | |
2626 | ||
2627 | * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) | |
2628 | ||
2629 | * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log | |
2630 | when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" | |
2631 | and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. | |
2632 | ||
2633 | * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. | |
2634 | ||
2635 | * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file | |
2636 | that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and | |
2637 | Wayne Davison) | |
2638 | ||
2639 | * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files | |
2640 | to not get backed up. | |
2641 | ||
2642 | * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode | |
2643 | 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the | |
2644 | backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). | |
2645 | ||
2646 | * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. | |
2647 | ||
2648 | * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly | |
2649 | what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) | |
2650 | ||
2651 | * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when | |
2652 | using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) | |
2653 | ||
2654 | * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing | |
2655 | special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or | |
2656 | --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the | |
2657 | same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a | |
2658 | regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2659 | ||
2660 | * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and | |
2661 | readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated | |
2662 | files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) | |
2663 | ||
2664 | * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings | |
2665 | if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. | |
2666 | ||
2667 | INTERNAL: | |
2668 | ||
2669 | * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped | |
2670 | supporting. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2671 | ||
2672 | * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) | |
2673 | ||
2674 | * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new | |
2675 | defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) | |
2676 | ||
2677 | * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a | |
2678 | lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. | |
2679 | Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value | |
2680 | we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). | |
2681 | (Wayne Davison) | |
2682 | ||
2683 | \f | |
276877cf WD |
2684 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003) |
2685 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
2686 | Changes since 2.5.6: | |
2687 | ||
2688 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
2689 | ||
2690 | * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul | |
2691 | Russell, Andrea Barisani) | |
2692 | ||
2693 | \f | |
2694 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003) | |
2695 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
2696 | Changes since 2.5.5: | |
2697 | ||
2698 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2699 | ||
2700 | * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
2701 | ||
2702 | * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael | |
2703 | Zimmerman) | |
2704 | ||
a923437b | 2705 | * Combining "::" syntax with the --rsh/-e option now uses the |
276877cf WD |
2706 | specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) |
2707 | server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such | |
2708 | as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) | |
2709 | ||
2710 | * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the | |
2711 | destination field. | |
2712 | ||
2713 | * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", | |
2714 | rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2715 | ||
2716 | * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that | |
2717 | unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. | |
2718 | (J.W. Schultz) | |
2719 | ||
2720 | * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an | |
2721 | rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) | |
2722 | ||
2723 | * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon | |
2724 | Middleton) | |
2725 | ||
2726 | * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" | |
2727 | and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) | |
2728 | ||
2729 | * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line | |
2730 | terminations. (J.W. Schultz) | |
2731 | ||
2732 | * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. | |
2733 | (Dave Dykstra) | |
2734 | ||
2735 | BUG FIXES: | |
2736 | ||
2737 | * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John | |
2738 | L. Allen, Martin Pool) | |
2739 | ||
2740 | * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not | |
2741 | in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents | |
2742 | timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) | |
2743 | ||
2744 | * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) | |
2745 | ||
2746 | * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) | |
2747 | ||
2748 | * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that | |
2749 | contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file | |
2750 | list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) | |
2751 | ||
2752 | * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple | |
2753 | dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) | |
2754 | ||
2755 | * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child | |
2756 | processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing | |
2757 | an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) | |
2758 | ||
2759 | * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely | |
2760 | broken. (Dave Dykstra) | |
2761 | ||
2762 | * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. | |
2763 | (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) | |
2764 | ||
2765 | * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories | |
2766 | when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) | |
2767 | ||
2768 | * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) | |
2769 | ||
2770 | INTERNAL: | |
2771 | ||
2772 | * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin | |
2773 | Pool, Nelson Beebe) | |
2774 | ||
2775 | * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) | |
2776 | ||
2777 | * More test cases. (Martin Pool) | |
2778 | ||
2779 | * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) | |
2780 | ||
2781 | * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. | |
2782 | (Jos Backus) | |
2783 | ||
2784 | * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this | |
2785 | means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) | |
2786 | ||
2787 | \f | |
2788 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002) | |
2789 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
2790 | Changes since 2.5.4: | |
54c7298c MP |
2791 | |
2792 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2793 | ||
2794 | * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken; | |
2795 | otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson) | |
2796 | ||
2797 | * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install" | |
2798 | accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages. | |
2799 | (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis) | |
2800 | ||
2801 | * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of | |
2802 | a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb, | |
2803 | similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy. | |
2804 | (Martin Pool) | |
2805 | ||
2806 | ||
2807 | BUG FIXES: | |
2808 | ||
2809 | * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process | |
2810 | slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the | |
2811 | current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool) | |
2812 | ||
2813 | * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool) | |
2814 | ||
2815 | * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin | |
2816 | Pool.) | |
2817 | ||
2818 | * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even | |
2819 | for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz) | |
2820 | ||
2821 | * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle | |
2822 | trailing slashes. | |
2823 | <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html> | |
2824 | (Martin Pool) | |
2825 | ||
2826 | * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods) | |
2827 | ||
2828 | \f | |
276877cf WD |
2829 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002) |
2830 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
2831 | Changes since 2.5.3: | |
c9a66d41 MP |
2832 | |
2833 | BUG FIXES: | |
2834 | ||
2835 | * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew | |
2836 | Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059) | |
276877cf | 2837 | |
c9a66d41 MP |
2838 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
2839 | ||
2840 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus) | |
2841 | (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can | |
2842 | not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
2843 | ||
2844 | * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool) | |
2845 | ||
2846 | \f | |
276877cf WD |
2847 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002) |
2848 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) | |
2849 | Changes since 2.5.2: | |
d40fb723 MP |
2850 | |
2851 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
2852 | ||
2853 | * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server | |
2854 | process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug | |
2855 | #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080) | |
2856 | ||
2857 | BUG FIXES: | |
2858 | ||
2859 | * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE | |
2860 | CAN-2002-0059) | |
2861 | ||
276877cf | 2862 | * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message |
d40fb723 MP |
2863 | unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr |
2864 | and resulted in the wrong data being copied. | |
2865 | ||
2866 | * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of | |
2867 | "unsigned int64" in rsync.h. | |
2868 | ||
2869 | * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc | |
2870 | on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand". | |
2871 | ||
2872 | * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client | |
2873 | unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632) | |
2874 | ||
2875 | * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing | |
2876 | slash. | |
2877 | ||
2878 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2879 | ||
2880 | * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that | |
2881 | rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link | |
2882 | against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync) | |
276877cf | 2883 | |
d40fb723 MP |
2884 | * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather |
2885 | than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to | |
2886 | what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try | |
2887 | to parse the output. | |
2888 | ||
2889 | * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) | |
2890 | ||
2891 | * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work | |
2892 | and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus) | |
2893 | ||
2894 | * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection, | |
2895 | print an error message. (Colin Walters) | |
2896 | ||
276877cf WD |
2897 | \f |
2898 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002) | |
2899 | Protocol: 26 (changed) | |
2900 | Changes since 2.5.1: | |
97efa5c3 MP |
2901 | |
2902 | SECURITY FIXES: | |
2903 | ||
2904 | * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer | |
2905 | <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently | |
2906 | careful about reading integers from the network. | |
2907 | ||
2908 | BUG FIXES: | |
2909 | ||
2910 | * Fix possible string mangling in log files. | |
2911 | ||
2912 | * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. | |
2913 | ||
2914 | * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with | |
2915 | 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. | |
2916 | ||
2917 | * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. | |
2918 | ||
2919 | * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) | |
2920 | ||
2921 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2922 | ||
2923 | * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh | |
2924 | connection. | |
2925 | ||
2926 | * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that | |
276877cf | 2927 | support mallinfo(). |
97efa5c3 MP |
2928 | |
2929 | * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress | |
2930 | visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, | |
2931 | rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the | |
2932 | file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) | |
2933 | ||
2934 | * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental | |
2935 | but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) | |
276877cf | 2936 | |
97efa5c3 MP |
2937 | * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with |
2938 | Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286) | |
2939 | ||
276877cf WD |
2940 | \f |
2941 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002) | |
2942 | Protocol: 25 (unchanged) | |
2943 | Changes since 2.5.0: | |
2944 | ||
2945 | BUG FIXES: | |
499957d9 | 2946 | |
499957d9 MP |
2947 | * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul |
2948 | Mackerras) | |
2949 | ||
2950 | * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6. | |
2951 | (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun" | |
2952 | Hagino) | |
2953 | ||
2954 | * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra) | |
2955 | ||
2956 | * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai) | |
2957 | ||
2958 | * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt) | |
2959 | ||
2960 | * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward | |
2961 | Welbourne) | |
2962 | ||
2963 | * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik) | |
2964 | ||
2965 | ENHANCEMENTS: | |
2966 | ||
2967 | * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a | |
276877cf WD |
2968 | multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik |
2969 | Faith) | |
2970 | ||
499957d9 | 2971 | * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also |
276877cf WD |
2972 | useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a |
2973 | debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus) | |
499957d9 MP |
2974 | |
2975 | * Clearer error messages for some conditions. | |
2976 | ||
c9a66d41 | 2977 | \f |
276877cf WD |
2978 | NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001) |
2979 | Protocol: 25 (changed) | |
2980 | Changes since 2.4.6: | |
d313ae7d MP |
2981 | |
2982 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
2983 | ||
2984 | * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. | |
2985 | ||
2986 | NEW FEATURES | |
2987 | ||
2988 | * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> | |
2989 | ||
2990 | * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. | |
2991 | ||
2992 | * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch | |
2993 | sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos | |
2994 | Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> | |
2995 | ||
2996 | * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems | |
2997 | including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also | |
2998 | includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the | |
2999 | Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH | |
3000 | portability project, and OpenBSD. | |
3001 | ||
3002 | ENHANCEMENTS | |
3003 | ||
3004 | * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are | |
3005 | included or excluded and why. | |
3006 | ||
3007 | * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more | |
3008 | details. | |
3009 | ||
3010 | * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. | |
3011 | ||
3012 | * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log | |
3013 | file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is | |
3014 | open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log | |
3015 | file to get cleaned out by another process. | |
3016 | ||
3017 | * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing | |
3018 | options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more | |
3019 | consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not | |
3020 | installed on the platform. | |
3021 | ||
3022 | * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit | |
3023 | files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. | |
3024 | ||
3025 | * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. | |
3026 | ||
3027 | * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, | |
3028 | explain that we do it in a secure way. | |
3029 | ||
3030 | * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the | |
3031 | local machine. | |
3032 | ||
3033 | BUG FIXES: | |
3034 | ||
3035 | * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. | |
3036 | ||
3037 | * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. | |
3038 | ||
3039 | * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. | |
3040 | ||
3041 | * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked | |
276877cf | 3042 | to transfer fail to transfer. |
d313ae7d MP |
3043 | |
3044 | * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might | |
3045 | overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an | |
3046 | ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) | |
3047 | ||
3048 | PLATFORMS: | |
3049 | ||
3050 | * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) | |
3051 | ||
3052 | * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf | |
276877cf | 3053 | scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. |
d313ae7d MP |
3054 | |
3055 | * Platforms thought to work in this release: | |
3056 | ||
3057 | Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc | |
3058 | Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc | |
3059 | Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc | |
3060 | FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc | |
3061 | FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc | |
3062 | FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc | |
3063 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc | |
3064 | HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc | |
3065 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc | |
3066 | IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc | |
3067 | Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc | |
3068 | NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc | |
3069 | NetBSD Current i386 cc | |
3070 | OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc | |
3071 | OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc | |
3072 | OpenBSD Current i386 cc | |
3073 | RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc | |
3074 | RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ | |
3075 | RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc | |
3076 | RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc | |
3077 | Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) | |
3078 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc | |
3079 | Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc | |
3080 | Solaris 8 i386 gcc | |
3081 | SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 | |
3082 | SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 | |
3083 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc | |
3084 | i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc | |
3085 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc | |
3086 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc | |
3087 | i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc | |
3088 | ||
3089 | TESTING: | |
3090 | ||
3091 | * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a | |
3092 | test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba | |
3093 | build farm. | |
3742bf3a S |
3094 | \f |
3095 | Partial Protocol History | |
f7e48a5c | 3096 | RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL |
d1b3118c | 3097 | ?? ??? 2011 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31 |
794f2cba | 3098 | 31 Dec 2009 3.0.7 30 |
8f73c8a4 | 3099 | 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30 |
8051aa5a | 3100 | 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30 |
46b1361b | 3101 | 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30 |
db8f3f73 | 3102 | 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30 |
8ba802f3 | 3103 | 08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30 |
325c2432 | 3104 | 03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30 |
4cb6197b | 3105 | 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30 |
0c6d7952 | 3106 | 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29 |
4177f09b | 3107 | 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29 |
a058cbc4 | 3108 | 11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29 |
cbc63b9b | 3109 | 28 Jul 2005 2.6.6 29 |
2dfe1c37 | 3110 | 01 Jun 2005 2.6.5 29 |
f7e48a5c | 3111 | 30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29 |
6fcedb7d | 3112 | 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28 |
c7be6dec WD |
3113 | 30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28 |
3114 | 26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28 | |
276877cf WD |
3115 | 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40) |
3116 | 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26 | |
3117 | 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26 | |
3118 | 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26 | |
3119 | 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26 | |
3120 | 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26 | |
3121 | 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26 | |
3122 | 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25 | |
3123 | 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25 | |
3124 | 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24 | |
3125 | 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24 | |
3126 | 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24 | |
3127 | 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24 | |
3128 | 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24 | |
3129 | 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24 | |
3130 | 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23 | |
3131 | 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22 | |
3132 | 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21 | |
3133 | 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20 | |
3134 | 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20 | |
3135 | 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19 | |
3136 | 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19 | |
3137 | 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19 | |
3138 | 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19 | |
3139 | 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19 | |
3140 | 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19 | |
3141 | 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19 | |
3142 | 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19 | |
3143 | 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18 | |
3144 | 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18 | |
3145 | 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18 | |
3146 | 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17 | |
3147 | 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17 | |
3148 | 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17 | |
3149 | 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17 | |
3150 | 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17 | |
3151 | 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17 | |
3152 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17 | |
3153 | 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30) | |
3154 | 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20) | |
3155 | ||
3156 | * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS. |