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1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) |
2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) | |
3 | Changes since 2.6.2: | |
4 | ||
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5 | OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): |
6 | ||
7 | - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the | |
8 | term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If | |
9 | you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script | |
10 | should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the | |
11 | indicator that the verbose output is over. | |
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13 | - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change |
14 | "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". | |
15 | ||
16 | - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with | |
17 | each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that | |
18 | a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be | |
19 | output). | |
446a2987 | 20 | |
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21 | BUG FIXES: |
22 | ||
831f05df WD |
23 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and |
24 | multiple source directories were specified. | |
03a9ca0a | 25 | |
c7b1a56b WD |
26 | - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the |
27 | checksums. | |
28 | ||
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29 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories |
30 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). | |
31 | ||
cbd85b47 WD |
32 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
33 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be | |
34 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. | |
03a9ca0a | 35 | |
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36 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed |
37 | data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis | |
38 | file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer | |
39 | retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. | |
40 | (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be | |
41 | older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and | |
42 | older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read | |
43 | error.) | |
03a9ca0a | 44 | |
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45 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
46 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the | |
47 | original file in the process). | |
48 | ||
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49 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
50 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). | |
51 | ||
cbd85b47 | 52 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
bd1574b2 WD |
53 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
54 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. | |
cbd85b47 | 55 | |
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56 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
57 | phase. | |
58 | ||
b03bded7 WD |
59 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
60 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. | |
61 | ||
40e8d11e WD |
62 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
63 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file | |
64 | "vanished". | |
65 | ||
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66 | - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling |
67 | the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks | |
68 | option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. | |
69 | ||
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70 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
71 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used | |
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72 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
73 | the message). | |
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75 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
76 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to | |
77 | be daemon-only). | |
78 | ||
b03bded7 WD |
79 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
80 | batch-processing options. | |
81 | ||
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82 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
83 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error | |
84 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 | |
85 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might | |
86 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will | |
87 | help). | |
88 | ||
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89 | - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error |
90 | messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error | |
91 | trying to send data over the socket. | |
92 | ||
93 | - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are | |
94 | hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure | |
95 | that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird | |
96 | rename() behavior). | |
97 | ||
98 | - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when | |
99d24f77 | 99 | the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. |
65af3dab | 100 | |
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101 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
102 | ||
65af3dab WD |
103 | - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to |
104 | (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- | |
105 | writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial | |
106 | ||
40e8d11e | 107 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
40564811 | 108 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
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109 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
110 | ||
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111 | - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination |
112 | file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data | |
113 | in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there | |
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114 | are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). |
115 | Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). | |
61fb21ad | 116 | |
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117 | - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. |
118 | ||
03a9ca0a | 119 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
831f05df | 120 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
03a9ca0a | 121 | |
ef0bc0ab WD |
122 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
123 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of | |
124 | values. | |
125 | ||
5b36173d WD |
126 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
127 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. | |
128 | ||
bd1574b2 WD |
129 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
130 | ||
bb3edc3b WD |
131 | - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, |
132 | fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer | |
133 | sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different | |
134 | systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier | |
135 | to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data | |
136 | file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via | |
137 | stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum- | |
61fb21ad | 138 | seed for all batch processing has been removed. |
0fac7fe8 | 139 | |
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140 | - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its |
141 | presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to | |
142 | authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get | |
143 | if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real | |
144 | error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for modules | |
145 | names. | |
146 | ||
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147 | INTERNAL: |
148 | ||
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149 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
150 | and made the code easier to maintain. | |
03a9ca0a | 151 | |
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152 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has |
153 | a lot of args. | |
154 | ||
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155 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
156 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. | |
157 | ||
c54f5170 WD |
158 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
159 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file | |
40564811 | 160 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
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161 | them). |
162 | ||
65af3dab WD |
163 | - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to |
164 | a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size. | |
165 | ||
c7b1a56b WD |
166 | - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). |
167 | ||
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168 | BUILD CHANGES: |
169 | ||
bd1574b2 WD |
170 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
171 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. | |
03a9ca0a | 172 | |
bd1574b2 | 173 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
40564811 | 174 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
40e8d11e | 175 | updated). |
03a9ca0a | 176 | |
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177 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
178 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems | |
179 | have $STRIP set in the environment. | |
180 | ||
c7b1a56b WD |
181 | - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. |
182 | ||
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183 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
184 | ||
185 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. | |
186 | ||
eae4e1f9 | 187 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
40e8d11e | 188 | ones were removed. |
17f59e81 | 189 |