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2955529b | 1 | NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) |
2dc3db2a | 2 | Protocol: 30 (changed) |
2955529b | 3 | Changes since 2.6.9: |
36f59b58 | 4 | |
44a7ba45 | 5 | NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: |
4f3c1df6 | 6 | |
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7 | - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to |
8 | send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). | |
9 | This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most | |
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10 | people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having |
11 | an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the | |
12 | transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as | |
13 | separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) | |
2268defe | 14 | Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. |
3f655768 | 15 | |
46e858a6 | 16 | - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now |
3f655768 WD |
17 | sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r |
18 | along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not | |
19 | understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to | |
44a7ba45 | 20 | either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. |
4f3c1df6 | 21 | |
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22 | - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output |
23 | with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. | |
8340aa96 | 24 | Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". |
879b6ad0 | 25 | |
2268defe | 26 | - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a |
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27 | symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also |
28 | allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has | |
29 | the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's | |
0b52f94d | 30 | hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. |
932fcfc1 | 31 | |
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32 | - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile |
33 | for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit | |
34 | with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync | |
35 | daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic | |
36 | breaking of locks to be done). | |
37 | ||
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38 | BUG FIXES: |
39 | ||
293b11b8 WD |
40 | - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon |
41 | config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these | |
42 | options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, | |
43 | --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. | |
44 | ||
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45 | - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation |
46 | on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable | |
47 | daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't | |
48 | taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use | |
49 | it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- | |
50 | translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter | |
51 | for full details. | |
52 | ||
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53 | - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the |
54 | chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the | |
55 | module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for | |
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56 | libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the |
57 | rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside | |
2fe1feea | 58 | |
f859d3de | 59 | - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the |
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60 | rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the |
61 | --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option | |
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62 | was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated |
63 | source file. | |
64 | ||
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65 | - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: |
66 | it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. | |
67 | ||
68 | - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest | |
2f39f112 | 69 | option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for |
3a72cc29 | 70 | matching items. |
b4f02871 | 71 | |
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72 | - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a |
73 | signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being | |
74 | able to get the exit status from the script. | |
3481bdf4 | 75 | |
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76 | - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the |
77 | negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. | |
d0d0e41f | 78 | |
4f3c1df6 | 79 | - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it |
2f39f112 | 80 | no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. |
889ae39d | 81 | |
8b584075 WD |
82 | - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" |
83 | files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the | |
84 | copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. | |
85 | ||
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86 | - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains |
87 | and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this | |
88 | option to control a remote shell's password prompt. | |
e8dad395 | 89 | |
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90 | - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination |
91 | directory are handled right when --perms is left off. | |
92 | ||
4f3c1df6 WD |
93 | - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now |
94 | output as a creation event, not a change event. | |
95 | ||
9c528e29 WD |
96 | - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly |
97 | when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. | |
98 | ||
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99 | - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. |
100 | ||
101 | - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: | |
102 | any missing backup directories are now created. | |
103 | ||
104 | - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or | |
105 | --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. | |
106 | ||
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107 | - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. |
108 | ||
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109 | - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code |
110 | now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). | |
111 | ||
f153c9c9 | 112 | - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we |
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113 | are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems |
114 | when transfering read-only files. | |
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115 | |
116 | - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at | |
117 | the end of the run about a partial transfer. | |
118 | ||
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119 | - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more |
120 | options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, | |
121 | --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. | |
122 | ||
46e858a6 | 123 | - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older |
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124 | versions would update some files while writing the batch). |
125 | ||
0b52f94d | 126 | - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken |
46e858a6 | 127 | symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code |
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128 | already handled this for --copy-links). |
129 | ||
c9d3bc3f WD |
130 | - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. |
131 | ||
d62fb889 WD |
132 | - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's |
133 | owner when rsync is running as the same user. | |
134 | ||
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135 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
136 | ||
012d1a01 | 137 | - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking |
4f3c1df6 | 138 | to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly |
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139 | (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. |
140 | See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. | |
141 | ||
d46b5646 | 142 | - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical |
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143 | option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). |
144 | ||
012d1a01 WD |
145 | - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a |
146 | 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is | |
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147 | the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with |
148 | the new incremental recursion mode. | |
012d1a01 | 149 | |
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150 | - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than |
151 | having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- | |
2f39f112 | 152 | shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one |
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153 | (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that |
154 | local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . | |
f89617f7 | 155 | |
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156 | - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of |
157 | the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args | |
158 | to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, | |
159 | and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). | |
160 | ||
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161 | - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete |
162 | files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. | |
c7871d98 | 163 | |
348d54d6 | 164 | - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is |
4f3c1df6 | 165 | an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even |
97bcf138 | 166 | supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, |
2268defe | 167 | ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches |
97bcf138 | 168 | dir. |
348d54d6 | 169 | |
46e858a6 | 170 | - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is |
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171 | an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even |
172 | supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you | |
173 | need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of | |
174 | rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. | |
348d54d6 | 175 | |
9439c0cb WD |
176 | - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve |
177 | all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. | |
97bcf138 | 178 | It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. |
0b52f94d | 179 | There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. |
9439c0cb | 180 | |
332cf6df | 181 | - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from |
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182 | one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to |
183 | make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). | |
184 | If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then | |
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185 | rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by |
186 | default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default | |
187 | value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, | |
d46b5646 | 188 | "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an |
4f3c1df6 | 189 | explanation of the --iconv option's settings. |
332cf6df | 190 | |
0b52f94d | 191 | - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- |
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192 | set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You |
193 | can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the | |
194 | client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). | |
0b52f94d | 195 | |
d46b5646 | 196 | - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of |
46e858a6 | 197 | file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). |
c9d3bc3f | 198 | |
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199 | - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: |
200 | *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg | |
46e858a6 | 201 | The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. |
9c528e29 | 202 | |
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203 | - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file |
204 | deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older | |
205 | versions just silently stopped deleting things.) | |
206 | ||
207 | - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn | |
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208 | about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure |
209 | what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, | |
210 | as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though | |
211 | older versions don't warn). | |
8adc22e3 | 212 | |
3a5a7de6 | 213 | - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and |
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214 | receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a |
215 | hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the | |
216 | receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data | |
217 | sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more | |
218 | data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information | |
219 | to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving | |
220 | side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept | |
221 | the device+inode information on both sides). | |
3a5a7de6 | 222 | |
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223 | - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules |
224 | that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. | |
225 | -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. | |
226 | ||
293b11b8 WD |
227 | - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. |
228 | --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory | |
229 | that does not exist. | |
230 | ||
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231 | - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about |
232 | it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not | |
233 | that important). | |
234 | ||
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235 | - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4. |
236 | ||
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237 | - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the |
238 | destination file, which speeds up file appending. | |
239 | ||
240 | - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append | |
241 | option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For | |
242 | compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is | |
243 | talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. | |
244 | ||
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245 | - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a |
246 | connection timeout for rsync daemon access. | |
247 | ||
4f3c1df6 | 248 | - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable |
0f8984ed | 249 | that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. |
4f3c1df6 | 250 | |
0f8984ed WD |
251 | - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. |
252 | ||
46e858a6 | 253 | - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. |
0f8984ed | 254 | |
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255 | INTERNAL: |
256 | ||
0e5dd898 WD |
257 | - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- |
258 | named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows | |
259 | rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one | |
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260 | that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster |
261 | than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). | |
0e5dd898 | 262 | |
348d54d6 WD |
263 | - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). |
264 | ||
c9d3bc3f WD |
265 | - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing |
266 | through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. | |
267 | ||
348d54d6 WD |
268 | - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. |
269 | ||
4d2ea5a8 WD |
270 | - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters |
271 | easier without forcing variables via casts. | |
272 | ||
4f3c1df6 WD |
273 | - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. |
274 | ||
3a72cc29 WD |
275 | - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of |
276 | string-handling functions. | |
418da6d9 | 277 | |
d0d0e41f WD |
278 | - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. |
279 | ||
c7871d98 WD |
280 | - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a |
281 | compiler warning. | |
282 | ||
283 | - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. | |
d0d0e41f | 284 | |
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285 | - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and |
286 | omitted the --server option. | |
287 | ||
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288 | - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than |
289 | the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new | |
290 | categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing | |
291 | an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be | |
292 | transferred. | |
293 | ||
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294 | - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. |
295 | ||
46e858a6 WD |
296 | - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing |
297 | older sections of a pool's memory. | |
1c4ffe64 | 298 | |
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299 | - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with |
300 | some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a | |
301 | better license than the old code. | |
302 | ||
7c329ec7 WD |
303 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
304 | ||
8798be8e WD |
305 | - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. |
306 | ||
932fcfc1 | 307 | - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS |
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308 | (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). |
309 | Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. | |
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310 | |
311 | - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The | |
312 | autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the | |
313 | normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all | |
314 | generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the | |
46e858a6 | 315 | prepare-source script's fetch option). |
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316 | |
317 | - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the | |
318 | rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). | |
d62fb889 WD |
319 | This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named |
320 | rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. | |
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321 | |
322 | - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a | |
323 | complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. | |
324 | ||
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325 | - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- |
326 | directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows | |
327 | someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is | |
328 | useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, | |
46e858a6 | 329 | but another filesystem does). |
4f3c1df6 | 330 | |
348d54d6 | 331 | - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the |
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332 | development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync |
333 | versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. | |
46e858a6 | 334 | This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may |
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335 | interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not |
336 | interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which | |
337 | does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be | |
338 | incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). | |
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339 | |
340 | - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change | |
341 | in the 3.0.0 release. |