| 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 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
| 24 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the |
| 25 | original file in the process). |
| 26 | |
| 27 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
| 28 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
| 31 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
| 32 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
| 35 | phase. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
| 38 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
| 41 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file |
| 42 | "vanished". |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
| 45 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used |
| 46 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
| 47 | the message). |
| 48 | |
| 49 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
| 50 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to |
| 51 | be daemon-only). |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
| 54 | batch-processing options. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
| 57 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error |
| 58 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 |
| 59 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might |
| 60 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will |
| 61 | help). |
| 62 | |
| 63 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 64 | |
| 65 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
| 66 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
| 67 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
| 72 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
| 75 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of |
| 76 | values. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
| 79 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | INTERNAL: |
| 84 | |
| 85 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
| 86 | and made the code easier to maintain. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
| 89 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
| 92 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file |
| 93 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
| 94 | them). |
| 95 | |
| 96 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| 97 | |
| 98 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
| 99 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
| 102 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
| 103 | updated). |
| 104 | |
| 105 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
| 106 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems |
| 107 | have $STRIP set in the environment. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| 110 | |
| 111 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
| 114 | ones were removed. |
| 115 | |