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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 | |
82c6be7e | 10 | would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the |
f6c0d3d7 | 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 | ||
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16 | - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned |
17 | with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a | |
18 | filename from causing an empty line to be output). | |
446a2987 | 19 | |
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20 | BUG FIXES: |
21 | ||
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22 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and |
23 | multiple source directories were specified. | |
03a9ca0a | 24 | |
c7b1a56b WD |
25 | - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the |
26 | checksums. | |
27 | ||
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28 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories |
29 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). | |
30 | ||
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31 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
32 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be | |
33 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. | |
03a9ca0a | 34 | |
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35 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed |
36 | data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis | |
37 | file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer | |
38 | retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. | |
39 | (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be | |
40 | older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and | |
41 | older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read | |
42 | error.) | |
03a9ca0a | 43 | |
c54f5170 | 44 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
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45 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to |
46 | overwrite the original file in the backup area). | |
03a9ca0a | 47 | |
cbd85b47 | 48 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
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49 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
50 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. | |
cbd85b47 | 51 | |
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52 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
53 | phase. | |
54 | ||
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55 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
56 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. | |
57 | ||
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58 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
59 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file | |
60 | "vanished". | |
61 | ||
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62 | - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling |
63 | the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks | |
64 | option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. | |
65 | ||
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66 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
67 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used | |
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68 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
69 | the message). | |
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71 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
72 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to | |
73 | be daemon-only). | |
74 | ||
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75 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
76 | batch-processing options. | |
77 | ||
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78 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
79 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error | |
80 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 | |
81 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might | |
82 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will | |
83 | help). | |
84 | ||
65af3dab | 85 | - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error |
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86 | messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just |
87 | die with a socket-write error). | |
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88 | |
89 | - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are | |
90 | hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure | |
91 | that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird | |
92 | rename() behavior). | |
93 | ||
94 | - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when | |
99d24f77 | 95 | the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. |
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97 | - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we |
98 | can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered. | |
99 | This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as | |
100 | AIX and HP-UX. | |
101 | ||
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102 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
103 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). | |
104 | ||
105 | - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not | |
106 | exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be | |
107 | sent instead of dying with a chdir() error. | |
108 | ||
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109 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
110 | ||
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111 | - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to |
112 | (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- | |
113 | writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial | |
114 | ||
40e8d11e | 115 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
40564811 | 116 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
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117 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
118 | ||
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119 | - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination |
120 | file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data | |
121 | in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there | |
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122 | are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). |
123 | Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). | |
61fb21ad | 124 | |
86e2f445 | 125 | - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. |
cbd85b47 | 126 | |
03a9ca0a | 127 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
831f05df | 128 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
03a9ca0a | 129 | |
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130 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
131 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of | |
132 | values. | |
133 | ||
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134 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
135 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. | |
136 | ||
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137 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
138 | ||
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139 | - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, |
140 | fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer | |
141 | sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different | |
142 | systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier | |
143 | to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data | |
144 | file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via | |
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145 | stdin over a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the |
146 | same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed. | |
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148 | - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its |
149 | presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to | |
150 | authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get | |
151 | if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real | |
86e2f445 | 152 | error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module |
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153 | names. |
154 | ||
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155 | - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match |
156 | option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. | |
157 | ||
c16d69b2 | 158 | - The finished file now gets its permissions and modified-time updated |
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159 | before it gets moved into place. |
160 | ||
161 | - Lots of documentation improvements in the exclude/include sections. | |
c16d69b2 | 162 | |
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163 | INTERNAL: |
164 | ||
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165 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
166 | and made the code easier to maintain. | |
03a9ca0a | 167 | |
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168 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a |
169 | lot of args. | |
78112d30 | 170 | |
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171 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf() |
172 | with strerror() as an arg. | |
03a9ca0a | 173 | |
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174 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
175 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file | |
40564811 | 176 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
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177 | them). |
178 | ||
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179 | - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a |
180 | crawl if the block size got too large). | |
65af3dab | 181 | |
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182 | - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). |
183 | ||
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184 | - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions |
185 | makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still | |
186 | being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both | |
187 | sides when sending the file-list). | |
188 | ||
189 | - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer | |
190 | arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's | |
191 | functionality into the latter. | |
192 | ||
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193 | BUILD CHANGES: |
194 | ||
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195 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
196 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. | |
03a9ca0a | 197 | |
bd1574b2 | 198 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
40564811 | 199 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
40e8d11e | 200 | updated). |
03a9ca0a | 201 | |
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202 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
203 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems | |
204 | have $STRIP set in the environment. | |
205 | ||
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206 | - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. |
207 | ||
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208 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
209 | ||
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210 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few |
211 | new tests added. | |
03a9ca0a | 212 | |
eae4e1f9 | 213 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
40e8d11e | 214 | ones were removed. |
17f59e81 | 215 |