| | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) |
| | 2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
| | 3 | Changes since 2.6.8: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will |
| | 8 | once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer |
| | 11 | sanitizes the symlink target strings (by default). This means that each |
| | 12 | symlink's value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink |
| | 13 | info intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any |
| | 14 | dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are |
| | 15 | manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top |
| | 16 | of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the |
| | 17 | same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a |
| | 18 | potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the |
| | 19 | module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, |
| | 22 | --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if |
| | 23 | the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, |
| | 24 | these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references |
| | 25 | (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code |
| | 26 | incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter |
| | 27 | how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent |
| | 30 | directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the |
| | 31 | generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should |
| | 32 | also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from |
| | 33 | the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client |
| | 34 | process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was |
| | 35 | receiving files.) |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the |
| | 38 | destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell |
| | 39 | when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip |
| | 42 | trying to update everything that is inside that directory. |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I |
| | 45 | is specified. |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync |
| | 48 | will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file |
| | 49 | even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a |
| | 52 | chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps |
| | 53 | from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone |
| | 54 | over and over again). |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: |
| | 57 | it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used |
| | 58 | to successfully update a destination file. |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir |
| | 61 | merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and |
| | 62 | only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is |
| | 63 | done for global include/excludes). |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from |
| | 66 | the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of |
| | 69 | the filesystem with --relative enabled. |
| | 70 | |
| | 71 | - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write |
| | 72 | permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a |
| | 73 | problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace |
| | 74 | will not update a file that has no write permissions). |
| | 75 | |
| | 76 | - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we |
| | 77 | are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These |
| | 82 | can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. |
| | 83 | They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man |
| | 84 | page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf |
| | 85 | settings when starting a daemon. |
| | 86 | |
| | 87 | - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing |
| | 88 | it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an |
| | 89 | alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) |
| | 90 | |
| | 91 | - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in |
| | 92 | the daemon's config file. |
| | 93 | |
| | 94 | - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style |
| | 95 | tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied |
| | 96 | regardless of how "use chroot" is set. |
| | 97 | |
| | 98 | - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now |
| | 99 | deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all |
| | 100 | non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already |
| | 101 | up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that |
| | 102 | was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind |
| | 103 | a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. |
| | 104 | (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and |
| | 105 | still behaves in the same way as before.) |
| | 106 | |
| | 107 | - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in |
| | 108 | the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in |
| | 109 | both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer |
| | 110 | command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| | 113 | |
| | 114 | - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to |
| | 115 | make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. |
| | 116 | |
| | 117 | - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have |
| | 120 | consistent opening comments. |
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