| 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
| 3 | Changes since 2.6.6: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | BUG FIXES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the |
| 8 | files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the |
| 13 | permissions without recreating the file. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, |
| 16 | we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination |
| 17 | hostspec as a filename. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with |
| 20 | permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when |
| 21 | the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output |
| 24 | algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() |
| 27 | fails. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to |
| 32 | require at least -vv for the error to be seen). |
| 33 | |
| 34 | - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle |
| 35 | the exit status properly and generate a better error. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, |
| 38 | --link-dest, or --compare-dest. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files |
| 41 | that have a path component containing a slash. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears |
| 44 | the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." |
| 47 | suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now |
| 48 | reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with |
| 51 | --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being |
| 52 | able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 55 | |
| 56 | - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files |
| 57 | that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new |
| 58 | files). |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the |
| 61 | transfer. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive |
| 64 | rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size |
| 67 | to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples |
| 68 | of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). |
| 69 | |
| 70 | - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the |
| 71 | --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the |
| 74 | preservation of attributes on symlinks. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when |
| 77 | possible). |
| 78 | |
| 79 | - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using |
| 80 | --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" |
| 83 | and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a |
| 84 | per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode |
| 85 | transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables |
| 86 | that are set with information about the transfer.) |
| 87 | |
| 88 | - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in |
| 89 | the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs |
| 90 | should start. For example, if you specify a source path of |
| 91 | rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only |
| 92 | replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing |
| 93 | dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). |
| 94 | |
| 95 | - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override |
| 96 | unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka |
| 97 | "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of |
| 98 | file ownership that is implied by -a. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions |
| 101 | to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx |
| 102 | |
| 103 | - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, |
| 104 | which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will |
| 107 | now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and |
| 110 | without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure |
| 111 | that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to |
| 114 | better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: |
| 115 | "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file |
| 116 | to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of |
| 117 | a total of 9999. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 |
| 120 | trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the |
| 121 | content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). |
| 122 | |
| 123 | - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes |
| 124 | unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without |
| 125 | all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, |
| 126 | the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote |
| 127 | rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | - Some minor documentation improvements. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | INTERNAL: |
| 134 | |
| 135 | - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where |
| 136 | MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). |
| 137 | |
| 138 | - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit |
| 139 | with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. |
| 140 | |
| 141 | - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining |
| 142 | the VA_COPY macro. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory |
| 145 | recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to |
| 148 | be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to |
| 149 | do less string copying. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and |
| 152 | replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all |
| 153 | the output going to the terminal. |
| 154 | |
| 155 | - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| 158 | |
| 159 | - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO |
| 160 | configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of |
| 161 | the newly patched feature. |
| 162 | |