1 NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
7 - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
8 allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
10 - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
11 of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
13 - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
14 particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
15 be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
16 the --remove-source-files was also specified.
18 - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
19 destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
20 a non-root copy can't affect.
22 - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
23 incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
25 - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
26 of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
29 - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
30 this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
31 silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled
32 due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified).
34 - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
35 the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name
36 with the wrong charset conversion.
38 - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
39 the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
41 - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
43 - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number
44 (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation).
48 - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
49 is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
50 user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
51 server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
53 - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
57 - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
58 or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
60 - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync"
63 - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and
64 to do even more consistency checks on the files.