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3 ENHANCEMENTS:
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bc2b4963 5 * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
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bc2b4963 7 * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
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10 * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
11 specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
12 server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
bc2b4963 13 as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
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15 * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
16 destination field.
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f8a94f0d 18 * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
bc2b4963 19 rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
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21 * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
22 unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
23 (J.W. Schultz)
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1b85e3f1 25 * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
bc2b4963 26 rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
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28 * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
29 Middleton)
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31 * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
32 and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
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34 * Set the default value of --modify-window to 2 on Cygwin. (Max Bowsher)
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36 * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
37 (Dave Dykstra)
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39 BUG FIXES:
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41 * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
42 L. Allen, Martin Pool)
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44 * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
45 in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
46 timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
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48 * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
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50 * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
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52 * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
53 contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
54 list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
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56 * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
57 dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
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59 * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
60 processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
61 an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
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63 * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
64 broken. (Dave Dykstra)
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66 * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
67 (Sviatoslav Sviridov)
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69 * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
70 when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
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72 INTERNAL:
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74 * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
75 Pool, Nelson Beebe)
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77 * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
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79 * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
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81 * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
82 (Jos Backus)