| | 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 | - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the |
| | 11 | checksums. |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories |
| | 14 | over and over again (generating warnings along the way). |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and |
| | 17 | the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be |
| | 18 | terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will |
| | 21 | no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was |
| | 22 | specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to |
| | 23 | work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders |
| | 24 | don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option |
| | 27 | is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the |
| | 28 | original file in the process). |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy |
| | 31 | (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config |
| | 34 | items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module |
| | 35 | allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a |
| | 38 | phase. |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves |
| | 41 | the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error |
| | 44 | for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file |
| | 45 | "vanished". |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as |
| | 48 | refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used |
| | 49 | to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send |
| | 50 | the message). |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to |
| | 53 | the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to |
| | 54 | be daemon-only). |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the |
| | 57 | batch-processing options. |
| | 58 | |
| | 59 | - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to |
| | 60 | implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error |
| | 61 | that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 |
| | 62 | implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might |
| | 63 | suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will |
| | 64 | help). |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory |
| | 69 | onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it |
| | 70 | as matching a normal directory from the sender. |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) |
| | 75 | and documented all these options in the man page. |
| | 76 | |
| | 77 | - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less |
| | 78 | bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of |
| | 79 | values. |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and |
| | 82 | SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. |
| | 83 | |
| | 84 | - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. |
| | 85 | |
| | 86 | INTERNAL: |
| | 87 | |
| | 88 | - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory |
| | 89 | and made the code easier to maintain. |
| | 90 | |
| | 91 | - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has |
| | 92 | a lot of args. |
| | 93 | |
| | 94 | - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling |
| | 95 | rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. |
| | 96 | |
| | 97 | - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both |
| | 98 | IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file |
| | 99 | handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of |
| | 100 | them). |
| | 101 | |
| | 102 | - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). |
| | 103 | |
| | 104 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, |
| | 107 | including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. |
| | 108 | |
| | 109 | - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the |
| | 110 | proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be |
| | 111 | updated). |
| | 112 | |
| | 113 | - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip |
| | 114 | target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems |
| | 115 | have $STRIP set in the environment. |
| | 116 | |
| | 117 | - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | DEVELOPER RELATED: |
| | 120 | |
| | 121 | - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted |
| | 124 | ones were removed. |
| | 125 | |
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