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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. | |
da1b6eea | 10 | |
a897af2c | 11 | - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both |
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12 | sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are |
13 | being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). | |
8daa9925 | 14 | (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) |
591b908f | 15 | |
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16 | - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides |
17 | "send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). | |
18 | This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. | |
19 | ||
20 | - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now | |
21 | avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances. | |
22 | As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer | |
23 | items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to | |
24 | the transfer with --verbose being the equivalent of a --log-format of | |
25 | '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any symlink info). If the log | |
26 | output must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time | |
27 | the name is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was | |
28 | specified (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the | |
29 | full --log-format output will come after). | |
fd8571c2 | 30 | |
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31 | BUG FIXES: |
32 | ||
33 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
34 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
35 | file). | |
36 | ||
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37 | - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list |
38 | of changes that would be output without --dry-run. | |
e30b1fb8 | 39 | |
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40 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
41 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
42 | ||
8c577323 | 43 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed |
ac1541f4 | 44 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with |
8c577323 | 45 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) |
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46 | |
47 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
48 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
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49 | |
50 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
51 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
52 | necessary. | |
53 | ||
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54 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
55 | ||
22f5bd5e | 56 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 57 | |
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58 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect |
59 | symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed. | |
5b2f48da | 60 | |
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61 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will |
62 | affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try | |
63 | to set the user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 64 | |
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65 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
66 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
67 | ||
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68 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
69 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
70 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
ec626b3f | 71 | |
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72 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. |
73 | ||
74 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a | |
75 | server sender. | |
76 | ||
77 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the | |
78 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a | |
79 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure | |
8c577323 | 80 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have |
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81 | exited with an error for large files). |
82 | ||
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83 | - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and |
84 | sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually | |
85 | specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior | |
bbbb44ee | 86 | versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data |
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87 | properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. |
88 | ||
a897af2c | 89 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not |
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90 | being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about |
91 | the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was | |
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92 | specified). |
93 | ||
7b82b5ad | 94 | - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options |
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95 | (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, |
96 | there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). | |
7b82b5ad | 97 | |
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98 | - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator |
99 | is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress | |
8c577323 | 100 | output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) |
7b97c388 | 101 | |
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102 | - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while |
103 | the generator is scanning the file system (either looking for files | |
104 | to generate or files to delete) cause a new keep-alive packet to be | |
105 | sent that should keep the transfer going (as long as the generator | |
106 | continues to make progress). (Requires protocol 29.) | |
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107 | |
108 | - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the | |
e6f5ac11 | 109 | items in the transfer since the size might be undefined on some OSes. |
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111 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
112 | ||
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113 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
114 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
115 | ||
da1b6eea | 116 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
bbbb44ee | 117 | from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the |
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118 | transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the |
119 | default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as | |
bbbb44ee | 120 | --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that |
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121 | will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without |
122 | a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so | |
123 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any | |
8daa9925 | 124 | file-deleting options. |
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125 | |
126 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: | |
127 | Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created | |
128 | on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new | |
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129 | algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files |
130 | inside the transfer). | |
da1b6eea | 131 | |
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132 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest or --link-dest |
133 | options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the patches dir | |
134 | and enhanced.) | |
22f5bd5e | 135 | |
c3131af9 | 136 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 137 | |
18ea5dc0 | 138 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
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139 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
140 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
8c577323 | 141 | cause problems when a client connects (e.g. a hang or an abort). |
18ea5dc0 | 142 | |
8f1b4f36 | 143 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
e30b1fb8 | 144 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value |
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145 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
146 | ||
c3131af9 | 147 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
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148 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option |
149 | will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. | |
c3131af9 | 150 | |
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151 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
152 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
153 | partial file. | |
154 | ||
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155 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest and |
156 | --link-dest. (Requires protocol 29.) | |
a8fd4161 | 157 | |
9624b864 | 158 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
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159 | without recursion. |
160 | ||
bbbb44ee | 161 | - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to |
859fdaad | 162 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any |
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163 | internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" |
164 | for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically | |
165 | (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, | |
166 | but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of | |
167 | the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection. | |
859fdaad | 168 | |
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169 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating |
170 | the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This | |
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171 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of |
172 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in | |
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173 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from |
174 | the patches dir.) | |
90fdd89a | 175 | |
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176 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
177 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
178 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
179 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
180 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
181 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
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182 | versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but |
183 | backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions. | |
8daa9925 | 184 | (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) |
9624b864 | 185 | |
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186 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
187 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
188 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
189 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
190 | ||
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191 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is |
192 | reduced. | |
193 | ||
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194 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This |
195 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) | |
196 | ||
7b82b5ad | 197 | - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index |
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198 | they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a |
199 | non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone | |
200 | very wrong). | |
7b82b5ad | 201 | |
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202 | - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a |
203 | more detailed list of what files changed in any way and how they | |
204 | changed. The effect is the same as specifying a --log-format of | |
bd5b85db | 205 | "%i %n%L" (see the rsyncd.conf manpage). Works with --dry-run too. |
5b4e1f31 | 206 | |
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207 | - Added the --fuzzy option, which attempts to find a basis file for a |
208 | file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm | |
209 | only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but | |
210 | it does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the | |
211 | file was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy | |
212 | name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because | |
213 | it needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir | |
214 | and enhanced.) | |
215 | ||
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216 | - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files |
217 | between systems. | |
218 | ||
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219 | - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to |
220 | avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync | |
221 | to detach. | |
222 | ||
8daa9925 | 223 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. |
da1b6eea | 224 | |
8daa9925 | 225 | SUPPORT FILES: |
da1b6eea | 226 | |
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227 | - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will |
228 | transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into | |
229 | place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when | |
230 | pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to | |
231 | effect its update. | |
da1b6eea | 232 | |
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233 | - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the |
234 | /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will | |
235 | exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The | |
236 | excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly | |
237 | anchored. | |
da1b6eea | 238 | |
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239 | - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make |
240 | a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test | |
241 | for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and | |
242 | the receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. | |
cc17fbfe | 243 | |
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244 | - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is my version of Joe Smith's |
245 | restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain | |
246 | rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
a897af2c | 247 | |
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248 | INTERNAL: |
249 | ||
e30b1fb8 | 250 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over |
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251 | the socket. |
252 | ||
8daa9925 | 253 | - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so |
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254 | that it is easier to maintain. |
255 | ||
256 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for | |
257 | consistency and proper size. | |
258 | ||
259 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). | |
a8fd4161 | 260 | |
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261 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. |
262 | ||
263 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't | |
264 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. | |
265 | ||
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266 | - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only |
267 | variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the | |
268 | read-only side can succeed. | |
269 | ||
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270 | PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: |
271 | ||
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272 | - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This |
273 | indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The | |
274 | generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when | |
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275 | dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), |
276 | which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and | |
277 | less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the | |
278 | sender is now outputting all the file-change info). | |
bd5b85db | 279 | |
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280 | - If --inplace is specified, the generator flags any transfer that is |
281 | using an alternate basis file so that the sender can use the entire | |
282 | file in the rsync algorithm (unlike a normal --inplace update). | |
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283 | |
284 | - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This | |
285 | means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes | |
286 | (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C | |
287 | option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of | |
288 | filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older | |
289 | transfer scenarios). | |
290 | ||
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291 | - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir |
292 | names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it | |
293 | always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the | |
294 | list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between | |
86e97e17 | 295 | directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) |
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296 | |
297 | - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request | |
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298 | is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and |
299 | the new --list-only option is included in the options. | |
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300 | |
301 | - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), | |
302 | they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to | |
303 | build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the | |
304 | wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). | |
305 | ||
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306 | - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter excludes, a |
307 | client sender will now initiate a send of the filter rules to the | |
308 | receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in | |
309 | this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that | |
310 | survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the | |
311 | filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other | |
312 | side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list | |
313 | is often empty in this scenario. | |
28c54e81 | 314 | |
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315 | - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs |
316 | option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the | |
317 | --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. | |
318 | ||
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319 | - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet |
320 | from the generator to the sender, who then forwards it on to the | |
321 | receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive | |
322 | packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit | |
323 | (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone). | |
324 | ||
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325 | BUILD CHANGES: |
326 | ||
87ba7282 | 327 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
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328 | |
329 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. |