| 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) |
| 2 | Protocol: 28 (unchanged) |
| 3 | Changes since 2.6.3: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | BUG FIXES: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 |
| 8 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude |
| 9 | file). |
| 10 | |
| 11 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
| 12 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
| 15 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with |
| 16 | mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is |
| 19 | the sender, and the file-list is large. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating |
| 22 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when |
| 23 | necessary. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
| 30 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
| 33 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the |
| 34 | user and group of a symlink. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 37 | |
| 38 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
| 39 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
| 42 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
| 45 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the |
| 46 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
| 51 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
| 52 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could |
| 53 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
| 56 | to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value |
| 57 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
| 60 | the patches dir.) |
| 61 | |
| 62 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
| 63 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the |
| 64 | partial file. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |