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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). | |
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 | - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v). |
22 | It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv. | |
23 | ||
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24 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
25 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
26 | ||
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27 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
28 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with | |
da1b6eea | 29 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) |
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30 | |
31 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
32 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
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33 | |
34 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
35 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
36 | necessary. | |
37 | ||
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38 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
39 | ||
22f5bd5e | 40 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 41 | |
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42 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
43 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. | |
44 | ||
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45 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
46 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the | |
47 | user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 48 | |
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49 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
50 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
51 | ||
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52 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
53 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
54 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
ec626b3f | 55 | |
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56 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. |
57 | ||
58 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a | |
59 | server sender. | |
60 | ||
61 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the | |
62 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a | |
63 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure | |
64 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have | |
65 | exited with an error for large files). | |
66 | ||
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67 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not |
68 | being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error | |
69 | about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was | |
70 | specified). | |
71 | ||
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72 | - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options |
73 | by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has. | |
74 | ||
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75 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
76 | ||
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77 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
78 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
79 | ||
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80 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
81 | from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the | |
82 | transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the | |
83 | default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the | |
84 | --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so | |
85 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, | |
a897af2c | 86 | really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The |
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87 | default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via |
88 | --delete-before. | |
89 | ||
90 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: | |
91 | Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created | |
92 | on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new | |
93 | algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time. | |
da1b6eea | 94 | |
7a1b73b9 | 95 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
c3131af9 | 96 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
7a1b73b9 | 97 | |
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98 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
99 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the | |
c3131af9 | 100 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
22f5bd5e | 101 | |
c3131af9 | 102 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 103 | |
18ea5dc0 | 104 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
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105 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
106 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
107 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. | |
18ea5dc0 | 108 | |
8f1b4f36 | 109 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
e30b1fb8 | 110 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value |
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111 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
112 | ||
c3131af9 | 113 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
e30b1fb8 | 114 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". |
c3131af9 | 115 | |
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116 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
117 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
118 | partial file. | |
119 | ||
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120 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
121 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. | |
122 | ||
9624b864 | 123 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
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124 | without recursion. |
125 | ||
126 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to | |
127 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any | |
128 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a | |
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129 | non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a |
130 | modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified | |
131 | manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over | |
132 | a remote-shell connection. | |
859fdaad | 133 | |
9624b864 | 134 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the |
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135 | modified time for directories when --times was specified. This |
136 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of | |
137 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in | |
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138 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from |
139 | the patches dir.) | |
90fdd89a | 140 | |
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141 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
142 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
143 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
144 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
145 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
146 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
147 | versions. | |
148 | ||
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149 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
150 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
151 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
152 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
153 | ||
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154 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is |
155 | reduced. | |
156 | ||
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157 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This |
158 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) | |
159 | ||
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160 | - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index |
161 | they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since | |
162 | that would indicate that something had gone very wrong). | |
163 | ||
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164 | SUPPORT FILES: |
165 | ||
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166 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
167 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at | |
168 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses | |
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169 | --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. |
170 | ||
171 | - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and | |
172 | translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount | |
173 | points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made | |
174 | relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. | |
175 | ||
176 | - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of | |
177 | all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data | |
178 | corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the | |
179 | receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. | |
180 | ||
181 | - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync | |
182 | perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands | |
183 | can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
cc17fbfe | 184 | |
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185 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. |
186 | ||
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187 | INTERNAL: |
188 | ||
e30b1fb8 | 189 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over |
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190 | the socket. |
191 | ||
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192 | - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so |
193 | that it is easier to maintain. | |
194 | ||
195 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for | |
196 | consistency and proper size. | |
197 | ||
198 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). | |
a8fd4161 | 199 | |
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200 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. |
201 | ||
202 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't | |
203 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. | |
204 | ||
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205 | BUILD CHANGES: |
206 | ||
87ba7282 | 207 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
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208 | |
209 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. |