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1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) |
2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 2.6.2: | |
4 | ||
5 | BUG FIXES: | |
6 | ||
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7 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and |
8 | multiple source directories were specified. | |
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9 | |
10 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories | |
11 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). | |
12 | ||
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13 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
14 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be | |
15 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. | |
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16 | |
17 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will | |
18 | no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was | |
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19 | specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to |
20 | work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders | |
21 | don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) | |
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23 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
24 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the | |
25 | original file in the process). | |
26 | ||
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27 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
28 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). | |
29 | ||
cbd85b47 | 30 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
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31 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
32 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. | |
cbd85b47 | 33 | |
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34 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
35 | phase. | |
36 | ||
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37 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
38 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. | |
39 | ||
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40 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
41 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file | |
42 | "vanished". | |
43 | ||
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44 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
45 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used | |
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46 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
47 | the message). | |
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49 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
50 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to | |
51 | be daemon-only). | |
52 | ||
b03bded7 WD |
53 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
54 | batch-processing options. | |
55 | ||
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56 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
57 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error | |
58 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 | |
59 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might | |
60 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will | |
61 | help). | |
62 | ||
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63 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
64 | ||
40e8d11e | 65 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
40564811 | 66 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
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67 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
68 | ||
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69 | - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. |
70 | ||
03a9ca0a | 71 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
831f05df | 72 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
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74 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
75 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of | |
76 | values. | |
77 | ||
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78 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
79 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. | |
80 | ||
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81 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
82 | ||
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83 | INTERNAL: |
84 | ||
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85 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
86 | and made the code easier to maintain. | |
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88 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has |
89 | a lot of args. | |
90 | ||
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91 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
92 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. | |
93 | ||
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94 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
95 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file | |
40564811 | 96 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
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97 | them). |
98 | ||
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99 | BUILD CHANGES: |
100 | ||
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101 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
102 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. | |
03a9ca0a | 103 | |
bd1574b2 | 104 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
40564811 | 105 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
40e8d11e | 106 | updated). |
03a9ca0a | 107 | |
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108 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
109 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems | |
110 | have $STRIP set in the environment. | |
111 | ||
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112 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
113 | ||
114 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. | |
115 | ||
eae4e1f9 | 116 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
40e8d11e | 117 | ones were removed. |
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