| 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
| 3 | Changes since 2.6.4: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- |
| 8 | escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is |
| 9 | output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash |
| 10 | is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which |
| 11 | should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable, as |
| 12 | appropriate. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | BUG FIXES: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did |
| 17 | not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the |
| 18 | rsyncd.conf file. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified |
| 21 | that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write |
| 24 | permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the |
| 27 | basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i |
| 28 | is in effect. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after |
| 31 | processing. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in |
| 34 | addition to its use in daemon mode). |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete |
| 37 | processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a |
| 38 | newline. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer |
| 41 | to it as a "file". |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any |
| 44 | generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to |
| 45 | the file by the destination filename. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the |
| 48 | generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked |
| 51 | to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest |
| 52 | of the cluster. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync |
| 55 | no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the |
| 56 | receiving side. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and |
| 59 | sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead |
| 64 | of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any |
| 65 | actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all |
| 66 | the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you |
| 67 | are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). |
| 68 | |
| 69 | - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer |
| 70 | (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now |
| 71 | periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver |
| 72 | can get started on the files sooner rather than later. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include |
| 75 | some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, |
| 76 | password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) |
| 77 | |
| 78 | - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that |
| 79 | it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we |
| 80 | really did expect the socket to close). |
| 81 | |
| 82 | - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall |
| 83 | back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally |
| 84 | silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). |
| 85 | |
| 86 | INTERNAL: |
| 87 | |
| 88 | - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). |
| 89 | |
| 90 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| 91 | |
| 92 | - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented |
| 93 | rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). |
| 96 | |
| 97 | - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they |
| 98 | refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). |
| 99 | |
| 100 | - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that |
| 101 | the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s |
| 102 | presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. |