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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 | |
d671ccfc WD |
5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
6 | ||
7 | - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of | |
8 | clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of | |
9 | characters is also different (to remove an unused field). | |
10 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
11 | BUG FIXES: |
12 | ||
23740239 | 13 | - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the |
da2d13e3 | 14 | files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). |
23740239 | 15 | |
56961bec WD |
16 | - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. |
17 | ||
fbe57fdc WD |
18 | - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the |
19 | permissions without recreating the file. | |
4fdb03a6 | 20 | |
9425918d WD |
21 | - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, |
22 | we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination | |
23 | hostspec as a filename. | |
24 | ||
7ea7bebf WD |
25 | - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with |
26 | permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when | |
27 | the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. | |
28 | ||
ec69bdbd WD |
29 | - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output |
30 | algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. | |
31 | ||
fbe57fdc WD |
32 | - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() |
33 | fails. | |
34 | ||
02efda9f WD |
35 | - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. |
36 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
37 | - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to |
38 | require at least -vv for the error to be seen). | |
39 | ||
40 | - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle | |
41 | the exit status properly and generate a better error. | |
0417c34e | 42 | |
8a1f3153 WD |
43 | - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, |
44 | --link-dest, or --compare-dest. | |
45 | ||
515afe7c WD |
46 | - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files |
47 | that have a path component containing a slash. | |
48 | ||
d37bc73a WD |
49 | - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears |
50 | the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. | |
51 | ||
87001ac6 WD |
52 | - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." |
53 | suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now | |
54 | reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. | |
d37bc73a | 55 | |
2a59d2cc WD |
56 | - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with |
57 | --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being | |
58 | able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. | |
59 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
60 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
61 | ||
87781749 WD |
62 | - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does |
63 | not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and | |
64 | block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still | |
f7916cbf | 65 | requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D. |
87781749 | 66 | |
870dddc5 WD |
67 | - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files |
68 | that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new | |
69 | files). | |
70 | ||
bad01106 WD |
71 | - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the |
72 | transfer. | |
73 | ||
74 | - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive | |
da2d13e3 | 75 | rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). |
d697314b | 76 | |
889439c2 WD |
77 | - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size |
78 | to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples | |
79 | of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). | |
80 | ||
da2d13e3 | 81 | - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the |
889439c2 | 82 | --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. |
d697314b | 83 | |
f90f7149 WD |
84 | - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the |
85 | preservation of attributes on symlinks. | |
7d7a34ae | 86 | |
8a1f3153 WD |
87 | - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when |
88 | possible). | |
89 | ||
90 | - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using | |
91 | --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. | |
92 | ||
870dddc5 WD |
93 | - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" |
94 | and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a | |
95 | per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode | |
da2d13e3 WD |
96 | transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables |
97 | that are set with information about the transfer.) | |
5b9cc695 | 98 | |
56961bec WD |
99 | - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in |
100 | the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs | |
101 | should start. For example, if you specify a source path of | |
da2d13e3 | 102 | rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only |
56961bec WD |
103 | replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing |
104 | dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). | |
105 | ||
a912a980 WD |
106 | - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override |
107 | unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka | |
108 | "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of | |
109 | file ownership that is implied by -a. | |
110 | ||
ef3bb69a WD |
111 | - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions |
112 | to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx | |
113 | ||
ec69bdbd WD |
114 | - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, |
115 | which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. | |
116 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
117 | - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will |
118 | now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. | |
119 | ||
2067ec73 | 120 | - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and |
0ee32c62 | 121 | without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure |
2067ec73 WD |
122 | that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. |
123 | ||
3b153409 WD |
124 | - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to |
125 | better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: | |
0ee32c62 WD |
126 | "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file |
127 | to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of | |
128 | a total of 9999. | |
3b153409 | 129 | |
d37bc73a WD |
130 | - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 |
131 | trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the | |
132 | content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). | |
133 | ||
a324d49b WD |
134 | - Added the --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving |
135 | rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This | |
136 | makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include, | |
137 | exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed | |
138 | to hold the resulting files. | |
139 | ||
458aeea4 WD |
140 | - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes |
141 | unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without | |
142 | all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, | |
143 | the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote | |
144 | rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. | |
145 | ||
f5b14759 WD |
146 | - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- |
147 | user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such | |
148 | as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, | |
149 | and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will | |
150 | be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root. | |
151 | ||
f7916cbf WD |
152 | - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the |
153 | TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync. | |
154 | ||
e3f83953 WD |
155 | - Some minor documentation improvements. |
156 | ||
0417c34e WD |
157 | - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. |
158 | ||
5b9cc695 WD |
159 | INTERNAL: |
160 | ||
161 | - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where | |
162 | MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). | |
163 | ||
164 | - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit | |
165 | with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. | |
ce0da32a | 166 | |
d409c6ac WD |
167 | - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining |
168 | the VA_COPY macro. | |
169 | ||
b1b04fcd WD |
170 | - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory |
171 | recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. | |
172 | ||
d37bc73a WD |
173 | - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to |
174 | be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to | |
175 | do less string copying. | |
176 | ||
177 | - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and | |
178 | replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all | |
179 | the output going to the terminal. | |
180 | ||
181 | - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. | |
182 | ||
ce0da32a WD |
183 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
184 | ||
185 | - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO | |
186 | configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of | |
187 | the newly patched feature. | |
188 | ||
f7916cbf WD |
189 | - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file |
190 | such as ~/.popt. |