| | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) |
| | 2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) |
| | 3 | Changes since 2.6.2: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the |
| | 8 | term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If |
| | 9 | you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script |
| | 10 | should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the |
| | 11 | indicator that the verbose output is over. |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change |
| | 14 | "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with |
| | 17 | each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that |
| | 18 | a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be |
| | 19 | output). |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 22 | |
| | 23 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and |
| | 24 | multiple source directories were specified. |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the |
| | 27 | checksums. |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories |
| | 30 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
| | 33 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be |
| | 34 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed |
| | 37 | data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis |
| | 38 | file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer |
| | 39 | retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. |
| | 40 | (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be |
| | 41 | older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and |
| | 42 | older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read |
| | 43 | error.) |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
| | 46 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the |
| | 47 | original file in the process). |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
| | 50 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
| | 53 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
| | 54 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
| | 57 | phase. |
| | 58 | |
| | 59 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
| | 60 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
| | 63 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file |
| | 64 | "vanished". |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling |
| | 67 | the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks |
| | 68 | option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. |
| | 69 | |
| | 70 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
| | 71 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used |
| | 72 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
| | 73 | the message). |
| | 74 | |
| | 75 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
| | 76 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to |
| | 77 | be daemon-only). |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
| | 80 | batch-processing options. |
| | 81 | |
| | 82 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
| | 83 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error |
| | 84 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 |
| | 85 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might |
| | 86 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will |
| | 87 | help). |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error |
| | 90 | messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just |
| | 91 | die with a socket-write error). |
| | 92 | |
| | 93 | - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are |
| | 94 | hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure |
| | 95 | that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird |
| | 96 | rename() behavior). |
| | 97 | |
| | 98 | - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when |
| | 99 | the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we |
| | 102 | can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered. |
| | 103 | This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as |
| | 104 | AIX and HP-UX. |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 107 | |
| | 108 | - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to |
| | 109 | (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- |
| | 110 | writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
| | 113 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
| | 114 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
| | 115 | |
| | 116 | - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination |
| | 117 | file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data |
| | 118 | in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there |
| | 119 | are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). |
| | 120 | Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). |
| | 121 | |
| | 122 | - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. |
| | 123 | |
| | 124 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
| | 125 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
| | 126 | |
| | 127 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
| | 128 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of |
| | 129 | values. |
| | 130 | |
| | 131 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
| | 132 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. |
| | 133 | |
| | 134 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
| | 135 | |
| | 136 | - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, |
| | 137 | fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer |
| | 138 | sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different |
| | 139 | systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier |
| | 140 | to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data |
| | 141 | file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via |
| | 142 | stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum- |
| | 143 | seed for all batch processing has been removed. |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its |
| | 146 | presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to |
| | 147 | authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get |
| | 148 | if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real |
| | 149 | error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module |
| | 150 | names. |
| | 151 | |
| | 152 | - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match |
| | 153 | option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. |
| | 154 | |
| | 155 | - The finished file now gets its permissions and modified-time updated |
| | 156 | before it gets movied into place. |
| | 157 | |
| | 158 | INTERNAL: |
| | 159 | |
| | 160 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
| | 161 | and made the code easier to maintain. |
| | 162 | |
| | 163 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has |
| | 164 | a lot of args. |
| | 165 | |
| | 166 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
| | 167 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. |
| | 168 | |
| | 169 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
| | 170 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file |
| | 171 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
| | 172 | them). |
| | 173 | |
| | 174 | - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to |
| | 175 | a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size. |
| | 176 | |
| | 177 | - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). |
| | 178 | |
| | 179 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| | 180 | |
| | 181 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
| | 182 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. |
| | 183 | |
| | 184 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
| | 185 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
| | 186 | updated). |
| | 187 | |
| | 188 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
| | 189 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems |
| | 190 | have $STRIP set in the environment. |
| | 191 | |
| | 192 | - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. |
| | 193 | |
| | 194 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| | 195 | |
| | 196 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. |
| | 197 | |
| | 198 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
| | 199 | ones were removed. |
| | 200 | |
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