| | 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.) When some level of human-readable output is |
| | 13 | enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output |
| | 14 | is increased. |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was |
| | 17 | shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", |
| | 18 | both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file |
| | 19 | size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when |
| | 20 | incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used |
| | 21 | instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, |
| | 22 | letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still |
| | 23 | be increasing as new files are found. |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created |
| | 26 | (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for |
| | 27 | protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to |
| | 28 | follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount |
| | 29 | list broken down by type. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make |
| | 34 | it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte |
| | 37 | character to get translated incorrectly. |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should |
| | 40 | help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting |
| | 41 | abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly |
| | 42 | closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected. |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful |
| | 47 | for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option. |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained |
| | 50 | control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output |
| | 51 | using --info=progress2. |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the |
| | 54 | debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket |
| | 55 | protocol. |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to |
| | 58 | either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are |
| | 59 | missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files |
| | 60 | generates an error). |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. |
| | 63 | |
| | 64 | - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file |
| | 65 | ownership during the copy. |
| | 66 | |
| | 67 | - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the |
| | 68 | MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was |
| | 69 | specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). |
| | 70 | |
| | 71 | - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to |
| | 72 | allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's |
| | 75 | config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the |
| | 76 | specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the |
| | 77 | daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid |
| | 78 | values, even when not run by a super-user. |
| | 79 | |
| | 80 | - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file |
| | 81 | (using %VAR% references). |
| | 82 | |
| | 83 | - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file, |
| | 84 | the update should now be done in an atomic manner. |
| | 85 | |
| | 86 | - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only |
| | 87 | sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used). |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the |
| | 90 | upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic. |
| | 91 | |
| | 92 | - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times. |
| | 93 | |
| | 94 | - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings. |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow |
| | 97 | the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden. |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | - Added some Solaris xattr code. |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | EXTRAS: |
| | 102 | |
| | 103 | - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes |
| | 104 | it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which |
| | 107 | makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on |
| | 108 | passwd/group files from another machine. |
| | 109 | |
| | 110 | INTERNAL: |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads |
| | 113 | over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was |
| | 114 | changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket). |
| | 115 | |
| | 116 | - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for |
| | 117 | files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more |
| | 118 | parallel manner. |
| | 119 | |
| | 120 | - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value |
| | 121 | so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31). |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to |
| | 124 | read better, and do better sanity checking. |
| | 125 | |
| | 126 | - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather |
| | 127 | than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. |
| | 128 | |
| | 129 | - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment |
| | 130 | handling. |
| | 131 | |
| | 132 | - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code. |
| | 133 | |
| | 134 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| | 135 | |
| | 136 | - Added more conditional debug output. |
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