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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. | |
da1b6eea | 10 | |
a897af2c | 11 | - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both |
e30b1fb8 WD |
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). | |
0f7e31f7 | 14 | (Requires protocol 29.) |
fd8571c2 | 15 | |
ac1541f4 WD |
16 | BUG FIXES: |
17 | ||
18 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 | |
19 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude | |
20 | file). | |
21 | ||
0f7e31f7 WD |
22 | - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions changes in |
23 | directories and it now includes the full update information that | |
24 | would be output without --dry-run at higher levels of verbosity. | |
e30b1fb8 | 25 | |
1ed55e3e WD |
26 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
27 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. | |
28 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
29 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
30 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with | |
da1b6eea | 31 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) |
4a888ae6 WD |
32 | |
33 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is | |
34 | the sender, and the file-list is large. | |
ac1541f4 WD |
35 | |
36 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating | |
37 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when | |
38 | necessary. | |
39 | ||
740bab94 WD |
40 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
41 | ||
22f5bd5e | 42 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
5d54f339 | 43 | |
5b2f48da WD |
44 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
45 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. | |
46 | ||
ae09fb1f WD |
47 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
48 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the | |
49 | user and group of a symlink. | |
fbe2aba2 | 50 | |
ec626b3f WD |
51 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
52 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. | |
53 | ||
da1b6eea WD |
54 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
55 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a | |
56 | file that was put into the partial-dir. | |
ec626b3f | 57 | |
e30b1fb8 WD |
58 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. |
59 | ||
60 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a | |
61 | server sender. | |
62 | ||
63 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the | |
64 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a | |
65 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure | |
66 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have | |
67 | exited with an error for large files). | |
68 | ||
a897af2c WD |
69 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not |
70 | being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error | |
71 | about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was | |
72 | specified). | |
73 | ||
7b82b5ad WD |
74 | - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options |
75 | by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has. | |
76 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
77 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
78 | ||
8f1b4f36 WD |
79 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
80 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. | |
81 | ||
da1b6eea WD |
82 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
83 | from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the | |
84 | transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the | |
85 | default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the | |
86 | --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so | |
87 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, | |
a897af2c | 88 | really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The |
0752721d WD |
89 | default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via |
90 | --delete-before. | |
91 | ||
92 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: | |
93 | Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created | |
94 | on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new | |
0f7e31f7 | 95 | algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time. |
da1b6eea | 96 | |
7a1b73b9 | 97 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
c3131af9 | 98 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
7a1b73b9 | 99 | |
22f5bd5e WD |
100 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
101 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the | |
c3131af9 | 102 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
22f5bd5e | 103 | |
c3131af9 | 104 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
7a1b73b9 | 105 | |
18ea5dc0 | 106 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
22f5bd5e WD |
107 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
108 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could | |
109 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. | |
18ea5dc0 | 110 | |
8f1b4f36 | 111 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
e30b1fb8 | 112 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value |
8f1b4f36 WD |
113 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
114 | ||
c3131af9 | 115 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
0f7e31f7 WD |
116 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option |
117 | will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. | |
c3131af9 | 118 | |
ac1541f4 WD |
119 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
120 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the | |
121 | partial file. | |
122 | ||
a8fd4161 | 123 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
0f7e31f7 WD |
124 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol |
125 | 29.) | |
a8fd4161 | 126 | |
9624b864 | 127 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
859fdaad WD |
128 | without recursion. |
129 | ||
130 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to | |
131 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any | |
132 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a | |
e30b1fb8 WD |
133 | non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a |
134 | modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified | |
135 | manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over | |
136 | a remote-shell connection. | |
859fdaad | 137 | |
9624b864 | 138 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the |
e30b1fb8 WD |
139 | modified time for directories when --times was specified. This |
140 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of | |
141 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in | |
7b82b5ad WD |
142 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from |
143 | the patches dir.) | |
90fdd89a | 144 | |
9624b864 WD |
145 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
146 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling | |
147 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory | |
148 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). | |
149 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing | |
150 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older | |
0f7e31f7 WD |
151 | versions. (Protocol 29 needed for full filter-rule support, but |
152 | backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.) | |
9624b864 | 153 | |
da1b6eea WD |
154 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
155 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the | |
156 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This | |
157 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. | |
158 | ||
e30b1fb8 WD |
159 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is |
160 | reduced. | |
161 | ||
a897af2c WD |
162 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This |
163 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) | |
164 | ||
7b82b5ad WD |
165 | - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index |
166 | they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since | |
167 | that would indicate that something had gone very wrong). | |
168 | ||
da1b6eea WD |
169 | SUPPORT FILES: |
170 | ||
cc17fbfe WD |
171 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
172 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at | |
173 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses | |
da1b6eea WD |
174 | --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. |
175 | ||
176 | - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and | |
177 | translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount | |
178 | points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made | |
179 | relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. | |
180 | ||
181 | - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of | |
182 | all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data | |
183 | corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the | |
184 | receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. | |
185 | ||
186 | - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync | |
187 | perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands | |
188 | can be run by an ssh invocation. | |
cc17fbfe | 189 | |
a897af2c WD |
190 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. |
191 | ||
a8fd4161 WD |
192 | INTERNAL: |
193 | ||
e30b1fb8 | 194 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over |
a8fd4161 WD |
195 | the socket. |
196 | ||
e30b1fb8 WD |
197 | - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so |
198 | that it is easier to maintain. | |
199 | ||
200 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for | |
201 | consistency and proper size. | |
202 | ||
203 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). | |
a8fd4161 | 204 | |
a897af2c WD |
205 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. |
206 | ||
207 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't | |
208 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. | |
209 | ||
0f7e31f7 WD |
210 | PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: |
211 | ||
212 | - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after | |
213 | each index integer indicating what kind of basis file is being used | |
214 | for the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines). | |
215 | ||
216 | - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This | |
217 | means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes | |
218 | (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C | |
219 | option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of | |
220 | filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older | |
221 | transfer scenarios). | |
222 | ||
223 | - Rsync sorts the filename list in a slightly different way for some | |
224 | rare sets of files: it always puts a dir's contents immediately | |
225 | after the dir in the list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would | |
226 | sort in between directory "foo" and "foo/bar".) | |
227 | ||
228 | - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request | |
229 | is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and | |
230 | the new --list-only option is enabled. | |
231 | ||
232 | - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), | |
233 | they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to | |
234 | build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the | |
235 | wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). | |
236 | ||
28c54e81 WD |
237 | - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA |
238 | excludes), a client sender will still initiate a send of the filter | |
239 | rules to the receiver, but it only includes those rules that are | |
240 | receiver-specific. Older protocols used to omit the sending of | |
241 | excludes in this situation (since there were no receiver-specific | |
242 | rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). | |
243 | ||
0f7e31f7 WD |
244 | - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs |
245 | option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the | |
246 | --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. | |
247 | ||
ac1541f4 WD |
248 | BUILD CHANGES: |
249 | ||
87ba7282 | 250 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
e30b1fb8 WD |
251 | |
252 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. |