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ac1541f4 | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) |
a8fd4161 | 2 | Protocol: 29 (changed) |
ac1541f4 WD |
3 | Changes since 2.6.3: |
4 | ||
fd8571c2 WD |
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. | |
10 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
11 | BUG FIXES: |
12 | ||
13 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
14 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
15 | file). | |
16 | ||
1ed55e3e WD |
17 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
18 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
19 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
20 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
21 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with | |
4a888ae6 WD |
22 | mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) |
23 | ||
24 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
25 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
ac1541f4 WD |
26 | |
27 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
28 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
29 | necessary. | |
30 | ||
740bab94 WD |
31 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
32 | ||
22f5bd5e | 33 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 34 | |
5b2f48da WD |
35 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
36 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. | |
37 | ||
ae09fb1f WD |
38 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
39 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the | |
40 | user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 41 | |
ec626b3f WD |
42 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
43 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
44 | ||
45 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to | |
46 | backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. | |
47 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
48 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
49 | ||
8f1b4f36 WD |
50 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
51 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
52 | ||
7a1b73b9 | 53 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
c3131af9 | 54 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
7a1b73b9 | 55 | |
22f5bd5e WD |
56 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
57 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the | |
c3131af9 | 58 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
22f5bd5e | 59 | |
c3131af9 | 60 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 61 | |
18ea5dc0 | 62 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
22f5bd5e WD |
63 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
64 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
65 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. | |
18ea5dc0 | 66 | |
8f1b4f36 WD |
67 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
68 | to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value | |
69 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. | |
70 | ||
c3131af9 WD |
71 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
72 | the patches dir.) | |
73 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
74 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
75 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
76 | partial file. | |
77 | ||
a8fd4161 WD |
78 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
79 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. | |
80 | ||
859fdaad WD |
81 | - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories |
82 | without recursion. | |
83 | ||
84 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to | |
85 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any | |
86 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a | |
87 | non-recursive listing). | |
88 | ||
90fdd89a WD |
89 | - Added the --omit-dir-times option which will avoid updating the |
90 | modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a | |
91 | really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through | |
92 | the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory | |
93 | times. | |
94 | ||
cc17fbfe WD |
95 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
96 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at | |
97 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses | |
98 | --link-dest. | |
99 | ||
a8fd4161 WD |
100 | INTERNAL: |
101 | ||
102 | - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over | |
103 | the socket. | |
104 | ||
105 | - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. | |
106 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
107 | BUILD CHANGES: |
108 | ||
87ba7282 | 109 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |