| 1 | NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 31 (changed) |
| 3 | Changes since 3.0.4: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the |
| 8 | --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's |
| 9 | "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including |
| 10 | --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping |
| 11 | or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is |
| 12 | unchanged by default.) |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was |
| 15 | shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", |
| 16 | both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file |
| 17 | size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when |
| 18 | incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used |
| 19 | instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, |
| 20 | letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still |
| 21 | be increasing as new files are found. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | BUG FIXES: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make |
| 26 | it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful |
| 31 | for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained |
| 34 | control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output |
| 35 | using --info=progress2. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the |
| 38 | receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user- |
| 39 | specified files generates an error). |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created |
| 44 | (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for |
| 45 | protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and |
| 46 | deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file |
| 49 | ownership during the copy. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the |
| 52 | MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was |
| 53 | specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). |
| 54 | |
| 55 | - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to |
| 56 | allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf |
| 59 | file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a |
| 60 | daemon that was not run by a super-user. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | EXTRAS: |
| 63 | |
| 64 | - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes |
| 65 | it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which |
| 68 | makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on |
| 69 | passwd/group files from another machine. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| 72 | |
| 73 | - Added more conditional debug output. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather |
| 76 | than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment |
| 79 | handling. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code. |