| | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) |
| | 2 | Protocol: 29 (changed) |
| | 3 | Changes since 2.6.3: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about |
| | 8 | it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only |
| | 9 | sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 |
| | 14 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude |
| | 15 | file). |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
| | 18 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
| | 21 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with |
| | 22 | mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is |
| | 25 | the sender, and the file-list is large. |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating |
| | 28 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when |
| | 29 | necessary. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
| | 36 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
| | 39 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the |
| | 40 | user and group of a symlink. |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
| | 43 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to |
| | 46 | backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
| | 51 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
| | 54 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
| | 57 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the |
| | 58 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
| | 63 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
| | 64 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could |
| | 65 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. |
| | 66 | |
| | 67 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
| | 68 | to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value |
| | 69 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
| | 70 | |
| | 71 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
| | 72 | the patches dir.) |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
| | 75 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the |
| | 76 | partial file. |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
| | 79 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories |
| | 82 | without recursion. |
| | 83 | |
| | 84 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to |
| | 85 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any |
| | 86 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a |
| | 87 | non-recursive listing). |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
| | 90 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at |
| | 91 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses |
| | 92 | --link-dest. |
| | 93 | |
| | 94 | INTERNAL: |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over |
| | 97 | the socket. |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| | 102 | |
| | 103 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
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