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