| | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED) |
| | 2 | Protocol: 27 (unchanged) |
| | 3 | Changes since 2.6.0: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a |
| | 8 | "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. |
| | 9 | (Bardur Arantsson) |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of file data. |
| | 12 | (see the INTERNAL section). |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user |
| | 17 | when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -u was |
| | 18 | specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on |
| | 19 | the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might |
| | 22 | cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to |
| | 23 | get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). |
| | 24 | (Wayne Davison) |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | * Keep per-file track of the sending of literal data with |
| | 27 | --partial so that an interrupted transfer doesn't keep a |
| | 28 | shorter temp file when no new data has been transfered over |
| | 29 | the wire. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian |
| | 32 | machines. (Jay Fenlason) |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | INTERNAL: |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty |
| | 37 | large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made |
| | 40 | some significant reductions in user CPU time for large file |
| | 41 | sets. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent. |
| | 44 | (Wayne Davison) |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. |
| | 47 | (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | * Got rid of support for protocol versions 17 and 18 (which are |
| | 50 | both over 6 years old). |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). |
| | 53 | |
| | 54 | * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | * Less memory used for holding --checksum data. |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | \f |
| | 59 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) |
| | 60 | Protocol: 27 (changed) |
| | 61 | Changes since 2.5.7: |
| | 62 | |
| | 63 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to |
| | 66 | change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. |
| | 69 | Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the |
| | 70 | files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version |
| | 73 | 27. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 74 | |
| | 75 | * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The |
| | 76 | per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm |
| | 77 | provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync |
| | 78 | algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 |
| | 79 | checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary |
| | 82 | unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. |
| | 83 | |
| | 84 | * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the |
| | 85 | sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the |
| | 86 | file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. |
| | 87 | |
| | 88 | * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. |
| | 89 | |
| | 90 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 91 | |
| | 92 | * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. |
| | 93 | This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the |
| | 94 | matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not |
| | 95 | cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like |
| | 96 | what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 97 | |
| | 98 | - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. |
| | 99 | For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. |
| | 100 | [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the |
| | 101 | "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all |
| | 102 | versions.] |
| | 103 | |
| | 104 | - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo |
| | 105 | does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] |
| | 106 | |
| | 107 | - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of |
| | 108 | the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, |
| | 109 | just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" |
| | 110 | to get the old behavior in all versions.] |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched |
| | 113 | against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if |
| | 114 | there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" |
| | 115 | would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as |
| | 116 | "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the |
| | 117 | old behavior in all versions.] |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now |
| | 120 | properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the |
| | 121 | user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the |
| | 124 | block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. |
| | 125 | Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. |
| | 126 | (Craig Barratt) |
| | 127 | |
| | 128 | * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in |
| | 129 | mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit |
| | 130 | counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for |
| | 131 | file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) |
| | 132 | |
| | 133 | * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and |
| | 134 | multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. |
| | 135 | (Wayne Davison) |
| | 136 | |
| | 137 | * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. |
| | 138 | |
| | 139 | * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. |
| | 140 | |
| | 141 | * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more |
| | 142 | consistent manner. |
| | 143 | |
| | 144 | * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) |
| | 145 | |
| | 146 | * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log |
| | 147 | when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" |
| | 148 | and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. |
| | 149 | |
| | 150 | * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. |
| | 151 | |
| | 152 | * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file |
| | 153 | that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and |
| | 154 | Wayne Davison) |
| | 155 | |
| | 156 | * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files |
| | 157 | to not get backed up. |
| | 158 | |
| | 159 | * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode |
| | 160 | 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the |
| | 161 | backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). |
| | 162 | |
| | 163 | * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. |
| | 164 | |
| | 165 | * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly |
| | 166 | what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 167 | |
| | 168 | * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when |
| | 169 | using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 170 | |
| | 171 | * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing |
| | 172 | special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or |
| | 173 | --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the |
| | 174 | same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a |
| | 175 | regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 176 | |
| | 177 | * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and |
| | 178 | readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated |
| | 179 | files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) |
| | 180 | |
| | 181 | * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings |
| | 182 | if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. |
| | 183 | |
| | 184 | INTERNAL: |
| | 185 | |
| | 186 | * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped |
| | 187 | supporting. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 188 | |
| | 189 | * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 190 | |
| | 191 | * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new |
| | 192 | defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 193 | |
| | 194 | * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a |
| | 195 | lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. |
| | 196 | Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value |
| | 197 | we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). |
| | 198 | (Wayne Davison) |
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