| 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) |
| 3 | Changes since 2.6.2: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | BUG FIXES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and |
| 8 | multiple source directories were specified. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories |
| 11 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
| 14 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be |
| 15 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will |
| 18 | no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was |
| 19 | specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to |
| 20 | work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders |
| 21 | don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) |
| 22 | |
| 23 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
| 24 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). |
| 25 | |
| 26 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
| 27 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
| 28 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
| 31 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
| 34 | batch-processing options. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 37 | |
| 38 | - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory |
| 39 | onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
| 40 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
| 45 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
| 48 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of |
| 49 | values. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
| 52 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | INTERNAL: |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
| 59 | and made the code easier to maintain. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
| 62 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
| 67 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
| 70 | proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated). |
| 71 | |
| 72 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir (and some accepted |
| 77 | ones were removed as well). |
| 78 | |