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ac1541f4 | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) |
a8fd4161 | 2 | Protocol: 29 (changed) |
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3 | Changes since 2.6.3: |
4 | ||
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5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
6 | ||
7 | - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about | |
8 | it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only | |
9 | sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. | |
da1b6eea | 10 | |
a897af2c | 11 | - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both |
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12 | sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are |
13 | being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). | |
8daa9925 | 14 | (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) |
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16 | - The "%o" (operation) log format now has a third value (besides "send" |
17 | and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). This | |
18 | changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. | |
fd8571c2 | 19 | |
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20 | BUG FIXES: |
21 | ||
22 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
23 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
24 | file). | |
25 | ||
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26 | - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list |
27 | of changes that would be output without --dry-run. | |
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29 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
30 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
31 | ||
8c577323 | 32 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed |
ac1541f4 | 33 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with |
8c577323 | 34 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) |
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35 | |
36 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
37 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
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38 | |
39 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
40 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
41 | necessary. | |
42 | ||
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43 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
44 | ||
22f5bd5e | 45 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 46 | |
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47 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect |
48 | symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed. | |
5b2f48da | 49 | |
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50 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will |
51 | affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try | |
52 | to set the user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 53 | |
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54 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
55 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
56 | ||
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57 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
58 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
59 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
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61 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. |
62 | ||
63 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a | |
64 | server sender. | |
65 | ||
66 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the | |
67 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a | |
68 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure | |
8c577323 | 69 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have |
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70 | exited with an error for large files). |
71 | ||
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72 | - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and |
73 | sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually | |
74 | specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior | |
bbbb44ee | 75 | versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data |
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76 | properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. |
77 | ||
a897af2c | 78 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not |
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79 | being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about |
80 | the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was | |
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81 | specified). |
82 | ||
7b82b5ad | 83 | - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options |
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84 | (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, |
85 | there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). | |
7b82b5ad | 86 | |
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87 | - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator |
88 | is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress | |
8c577323 | 89 | output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) |
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91 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
92 | ||
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93 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
94 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
95 | ||
da1b6eea | 96 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
bbbb44ee | 97 | from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the |
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98 | transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the |
99 | default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as | |
bbbb44ee | 100 | --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that |
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101 | will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without |
102 | a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so | |
103 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any | |
8daa9925 | 104 | file-deleting options. |
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105 | |
106 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: | |
107 | Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created | |
108 | on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new | |
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109 | algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files |
110 | inside the transfer). | |
da1b6eea | 111 | |
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112 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest or --link-dest |
113 | options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the patches dir | |
114 | and enhanced.) | |
22f5bd5e | 115 | |
c3131af9 | 116 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 117 | |
18ea5dc0 | 118 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
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119 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
120 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
8c577323 | 121 | cause problems when a client connects (e.g. a hang or an abort). |
18ea5dc0 | 122 | |
8f1b4f36 | 123 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
e30b1fb8 | 124 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value |
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125 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
126 | ||
c3131af9 | 127 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
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128 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option |
129 | will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. | |
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131 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
132 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
133 | partial file. | |
134 | ||
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135 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest and |
136 | --link-dest. (Requires protocol 29.) | |
a8fd4161 | 137 | |
9624b864 | 138 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
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139 | without recursion. |
140 | ||
bbbb44ee | 141 | - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to |
859fdaad | 142 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any |
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143 | internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" |
144 | for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically | |
145 | (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, | |
146 | but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of | |
147 | the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection. | |
859fdaad | 148 | |
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149 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating |
150 | the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This | |
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151 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of |
152 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in | |
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153 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from |
154 | the patches dir.) | |
90fdd89a | 155 | |
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156 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
157 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
158 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
159 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
160 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
161 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
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162 | versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but |
163 | backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions. | |
8daa9925 | 164 | (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) |
9624b864 | 165 | |
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166 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
167 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
168 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
169 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
170 | ||
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171 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is |
172 | reduced. | |
173 | ||
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174 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This |
175 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) | |
176 | ||
7b82b5ad | 177 | - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index |
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178 | they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a |
179 | non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone | |
180 | very wrong). | |
7b82b5ad | 181 | |
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182 | - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a |
183 | more detailed list of what files changed in any way and how they | |
184 | changed. The effect is the same as specifying a --log-format of | |
bd5b85db | 185 | "%i %n%L" (see the rsyncd.conf manpage). Works with --dry-run too. |
5b4e1f31 | 186 | |
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187 | - Added the --fuzzy option, which attempts to find a basis file for a |
188 | file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm | |
189 | only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but | |
190 | it does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the | |
191 | file was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy | |
192 | name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because | |
193 | it needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir | |
194 | and enhanced.) | |
195 | ||
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196 | - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files |
197 | between systems. | |
198 | ||
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199 | - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to |
200 | avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync | |
201 | to detach. | |
202 | ||
8daa9925 | 203 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. |
da1b6eea | 204 | |
8daa9925 | 205 | SUPPORT FILES: |
da1b6eea | 206 | |
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207 | - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will |
208 | transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into | |
209 | place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when | |
210 | pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to | |
211 | effect its update. | |
da1b6eea | 212 | |
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213 | - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the |
214 | /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will | |
215 | exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The | |
216 | excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly | |
217 | anchored. | |
da1b6eea | 218 | |
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219 | - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make |
220 | a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test | |
221 | for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and | |
222 | the receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. | |
cc17fbfe | 223 | |
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224 | - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is my version of Joe Smith's |
225 | restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain | |
226 | rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
a897af2c | 227 | |
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228 | INTERNAL: |
229 | ||
e30b1fb8 | 230 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over |
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231 | the socket. |
232 | ||
8daa9925 | 233 | - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so |
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234 | that it is easier to maintain. |
235 | ||
236 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for | |
237 | consistency and proper size. | |
238 | ||
239 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). | |
a8fd4161 | 240 | |
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241 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. |
242 | ||
243 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't | |
244 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. | |
245 | ||
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246 | - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only |
247 | variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the | |
248 | read-only side can succeed. | |
249 | ||
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250 | PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: |
251 | ||
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252 | - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This |
253 | indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The | |
254 | generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when | |
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255 | dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), |
256 | which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and | |
257 | less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the | |
258 | sender is now outputting all the file-change info). | |
bd5b85db | 259 | |
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260 | - If --inplace is specified, the generator flags any transfer that is |
261 | using an alternate basis file so that the sender can use the entire | |
262 | file in the rsync algorithm (unlike a normal --inplace update). | |
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263 | |
264 | - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This | |
265 | means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes | |
266 | (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C | |
267 | option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of | |
268 | filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older | |
269 | transfer scenarios). | |
270 | ||
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271 | - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir |
272 | names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it | |
273 | always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the | |
274 | list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between | |
86e97e17 | 275 | directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) |
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276 | |
277 | - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request | |
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278 | is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and |
279 | the new --list-only option is included in the options. | |
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280 | |
281 | - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), | |
282 | they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to | |
283 | build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the | |
284 | wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). | |
285 | ||
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286 | - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter excludes, a |
287 | client sender will now initiate a send of the filter rules to the | |
288 | receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in | |
289 | this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that | |
290 | survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the | |
291 | filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other | |
292 | side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list | |
293 | is often empty in this scenario. | |
28c54e81 | 294 | |
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295 | - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs |
296 | option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the | |
297 | --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. | |
298 | ||
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299 | BUILD CHANGES: |
300 | ||
87ba7282 | 301 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
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302 | |
303 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. |