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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. | |
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10 | |
11 | - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if | |
12 | both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files | |
13 | are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). | |
fd8571c2 | 14 | |
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15 | BUG FIXES: |
16 | ||
17 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
18 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
19 | file). | |
20 | ||
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21 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
22 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
23 | ||
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24 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
25 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with | |
da1b6eea | 26 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) |
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27 | |
28 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
29 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
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30 | |
31 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
32 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
33 | necessary. | |
34 | ||
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35 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
36 | ||
22f5bd5e | 37 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 38 | |
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39 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
40 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. | |
41 | ||
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42 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
43 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the | |
44 | user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 45 | |
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46 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
47 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
48 | ||
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49 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
50 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
51 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
ec626b3f | 52 | |
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53 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
54 | ||
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55 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
56 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
57 | ||
da1b6eea WD |
58 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
59 | from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the | |
60 | transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the | |
61 | default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the | |
62 | --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so | |
63 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, | |
64 | really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. | |
65 | ||
7a1b73b9 | 66 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
c3131af9 | 67 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
7a1b73b9 | 68 | |
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69 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
70 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the | |
c3131af9 | 71 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
22f5bd5e | 72 | |
c3131af9 | 73 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 74 | |
18ea5dc0 | 75 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
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76 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
77 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
78 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. | |
18ea5dc0 | 79 | |
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80 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
81 | to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value | |
82 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. | |
83 | ||
c3131af9 WD |
84 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
85 | the patches dir.) | |
86 | ||
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87 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
88 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
89 | partial file. | |
90 | ||
a8fd4161 WD |
91 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
92 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. | |
93 | ||
9624b864 | 94 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
859fdaad WD |
95 | without recursion. |
96 | ||
97 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to | |
98 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any | |
99 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a | |
100 | non-recursive listing). | |
101 | ||
9624b864 | 102 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the |
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103 | modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a |
104 | really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through | |
105 | the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory | |
106 | times. | |
107 | ||
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108 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
109 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
110 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
111 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
112 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
113 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
114 | versions. | |
115 | ||
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116 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
117 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
118 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
119 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
120 | ||
121 | SUPPORT FILES: | |
122 | ||
cc17fbfe WD |
123 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
124 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at | |
125 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses | |
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126 | --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. |
127 | ||
128 | - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and | |
129 | translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount | |
130 | points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made | |
131 | relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. | |
132 | ||
133 | - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of | |
134 | all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data | |
135 | corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the | |
136 | receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. | |
137 | ||
138 | - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync | |
139 | perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands | |
140 | can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
cc17fbfe | 141 | |
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142 | INTERNAL: |
143 | ||
144 | - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over | |
145 | the socket. | |
146 | ||
147 | - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. | |
148 | ||
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149 | BUILD CHANGES: |
150 | ||
87ba7282 | 151 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |