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1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) |
2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 2.6.4: | |
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5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
6 | ||
7 | - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- | |
8 | escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is | |
9 | output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash | |
10 | is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which | |
65c84700 | 11 | can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. |
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12 | |
13 | - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would | |
21b9b933 | 14 | output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit |
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15 | status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do |
16 | this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed | |
65c84700 | 17 | to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we |
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18 | now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and |
19 | exit with the appropriate exit status. | |
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21 | BUG FIXES: |
22 | ||
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23 | - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did |
24 | not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the | |
4f3f97fb | 25 | rsyncd.conf file. |
e30b1fb8 | 26 | |
42e9c7eb | 27 | - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified |
b2360dab | 28 | that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. |
42e9c7eb | 29 | |
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30 | - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write |
31 | permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. | |
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33 | - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the |
34 | basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i | |
4f3f97fb | 35 | is in effect. |
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37 | - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after |
38 | processing. | |
39 | ||
40 | - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in | |
41 | addition to its use in daemon mode). | |
42 | ||
43 | - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete | |
44 | processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a | |
45 | newline. | |
46 | ||
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47 | - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it |
48 | as a "directory", not a "file". | |
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50 | - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any |
51 | generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to | |
52 | the file by the destination filename. | |
53 | ||
54 | - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the | |
7d7a34ae | 55 | generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. |
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56 | |
57 | - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked | |
58 | to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest | |
59 | of the cluster. | |
60 | ||
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61 | - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync |
62 | no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the | |
63 | receiving side. | |
64 | ||
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65 | - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and |
66 | sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. | |
028245a5 | 67 | |
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68 | - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not |
69 | trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". | |
70 | ||
71 | - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't | |
72 | handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. | |
73 | ||
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74 | - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when |
75 | --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing | |
76 | slash. | |
77 | ||
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78 | - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. |
79 | ||
80 | - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause | |
81 | the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal | |
82 | messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) | |
83 | ||
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84 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
85 | ||
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86 | - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead |
87 | of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any | |
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88 | actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all |
89 | the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you | |
90 | are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). | |
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92 | - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer |
93 | (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now | |
94 | periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver | |
95 | can get started on the files sooner rather than later. | |
a897af2c | 96 | |
d7d11b7e | 97 | - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include |
f96154f4 | 98 | some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, |
b28a27e9 | 99 | password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) |
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100 | |
101 | - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that | |
102 | it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we | |
103 | really did expect the socket to close). | |
104 | ||
f97f6bcd | 105 | - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall |
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106 | back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is |
107 | better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a | |
108 | daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was | |
109 | necessary to see the error on stderr). | |
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111 | - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" |
112 | to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. | |
113 | ||
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114 | - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the |
115 | support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options | |
116 | when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of | |
117 | other similar options being added at some point). | |
118 | ||
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119 | INTERNAL: |
120 | ||
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121 | - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better |
122 | discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages. | |
00fd3548 | 123 | |
3b968014 | 124 | - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. |
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125 | |
126 | - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help | |
127 | someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. | |
128 | ||
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129 | BUILD CHANGES: |
130 | ||
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131 | - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented |
132 | rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. | |
133 | ||
3ae6c187 | 134 | - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). |
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135 | |
136 | - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they | |
137 | refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). | |
138 | ||
139 | - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that | |
140 | the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s | |
141 | presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. | |
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142 | |
143 | - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. | |
144 | ||
145 | - Added a couple new diffs to the patches dir. |