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f90f7149 | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) |
3ae6c187 | 2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
f90f7149 | 3 | Changes since 2.6.6: |
9db17434 | 4 | |
ac1541f4 WD |
5 | BUG FIXES: |
6 | ||
23740239 | 7 | - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the |
da2d13e3 | 8 | files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). |
23740239 | 9 | |
56961bec WD |
10 | - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. |
11 | ||
fbe57fdc WD |
12 | - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the |
13 | permissions without recreating the file. | |
4fdb03a6 | 14 | |
9425918d WD |
15 | - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, |
16 | we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination | |
17 | hostspec as a filename. | |
18 | ||
7ea7bebf WD |
19 | - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with |
20 | permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when | |
21 | the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. | |
22 | ||
ec69bdbd WD |
23 | - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output |
24 | algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. | |
25 | ||
fbe57fdc WD |
26 | - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() |
27 | fails. | |
28 | ||
02efda9f WD |
29 | - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. |
30 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
31 | - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to |
32 | require at least -vv for the error to be seen). | |
33 | ||
34 | - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle | |
35 | the exit status properly and generate a better error. | |
0417c34e | 36 | |
8a1f3153 WD |
37 | - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, |
38 | --link-dest, or --compare-dest. | |
39 | ||
515afe7c WD |
40 | - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files |
41 | that have a path component containing a slash. | |
42 | ||
d37bc73a WD |
43 | - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears |
44 | the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. | |
45 | ||
87001ac6 WD |
46 | - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." |
47 | suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now | |
48 | reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. | |
d37bc73a | 49 | |
2a59d2cc WD |
50 | - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with |
51 | --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being | |
52 | able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. | |
53 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
54 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
55 | ||
87781749 WD |
56 | - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does |
57 | not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and | |
58 | block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still | |
59 | requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still infers -D. | |
60 | ||
870dddc5 WD |
61 | - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files |
62 | that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new | |
63 | files). | |
64 | ||
bad01106 WD |
65 | - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the |
66 | transfer. | |
67 | ||
68 | - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive | |
da2d13e3 | 69 | rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). |
d697314b | 70 | |
889439c2 WD |
71 | - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size |
72 | to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples | |
73 | of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). | |
74 | ||
da2d13e3 | 75 | - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the |
889439c2 | 76 | --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. |
d697314b | 77 | |
f90f7149 WD |
78 | - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the |
79 | preservation of attributes on symlinks. | |
7d7a34ae | 80 | |
8a1f3153 WD |
81 | - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when |
82 | possible). | |
83 | ||
84 | - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using | |
85 | --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. | |
86 | ||
870dddc5 WD |
87 | - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" |
88 | and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a | |
89 | per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode | |
da2d13e3 WD |
90 | transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables |
91 | that are set with information about the transfer.) | |
5b9cc695 | 92 | |
56961bec WD |
93 | - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in |
94 | the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs | |
95 | should start. For example, if you specify a source path of | |
da2d13e3 | 96 | rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only |
56961bec WD |
97 | replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing |
98 | dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). | |
99 | ||
a912a980 WD |
100 | - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override |
101 | unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka | |
102 | "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of | |
103 | file ownership that is implied by -a. | |
104 | ||
ef3bb69a WD |
105 | - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions |
106 | to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx | |
107 | ||
ec69bdbd WD |
108 | - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, |
109 | which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. | |
110 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
111 | - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will |
112 | now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. | |
113 | ||
2067ec73 | 114 | - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and |
0ee32c62 | 115 | without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure |
2067ec73 WD |
116 | that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. |
117 | ||
3b153409 WD |
118 | - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to |
119 | better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: | |
0ee32c62 WD |
120 | "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file |
121 | to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of | |
122 | a total of 9999. | |
3b153409 | 123 | |
d37bc73a WD |
124 | - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 |
125 | trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the | |
126 | content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). | |
127 | ||
458aeea4 WD |
128 | - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes |
129 | unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without | |
130 | all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, | |
131 | the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote | |
132 | rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. | |
133 | ||
e3f83953 WD |
134 | - Some minor documentation improvements. |
135 | ||
0417c34e WD |
136 | - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. |
137 | ||
5b9cc695 WD |
138 | INTERNAL: |
139 | ||
140 | - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where | |
141 | MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). | |
142 | ||
143 | - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit | |
144 | with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. | |
ce0da32a | 145 | |
d409c6ac WD |
146 | - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining |
147 | the VA_COPY macro. | |
148 | ||
b1b04fcd WD |
149 | - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory |
150 | recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. | |
151 | ||
d37bc73a WD |
152 | - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to |
153 | be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to | |
154 | do less string copying. | |
155 | ||
156 | - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and | |
157 | replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all | |
158 | the output going to the terminal. | |
159 | ||
160 | - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. | |
161 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
162 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
163 | ||
164 | - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO | |
165 | configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of | |
166 | the newly patched feature. | |
167 |