| 1 | NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7 |
| 2 | Protocol: 27 (changed) |
| 3 | Changes since version 2.5.6: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. |
| 8 | Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the |
| 9 | --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison |
| 12 | 27. (J.W. Schultz) |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). |
| 15 | The per-file checksum size is determined according |
| 16 | to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which |
| 17 | reduces the probability of rsync algorithm |
| 18 | corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 |
| 19 | checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary |
| 22 | unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | BUG FIXES: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. |
| 27 | This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the |
| 28 | matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not |
| 29 | cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like |
| 30 | what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. |
| 33 | For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo). |
| 36 | |
| 37 | - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of |
| 38 | the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, |
| 39 | just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched |
| 42 | against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if |
| 43 | there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" |
| 44 | would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as |
| 45 | "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance). |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now |
| 48 | properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the |
| 49 | user's file args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the |
| 52 | block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. |
| 53 | Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. |
| 54 | (Craig Barratt) |
| 55 | |
| 56 | * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in |
| 57 | mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit |
| 58 | counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for |
| 59 | file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and |
| 62 | multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. |
| 63 | (Wayne Davison) |
| 64 | |
| 65 | * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more |
| 70 | consistent manner. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) |
| 73 | |
| 74 | * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file |
| 75 | that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and |
| 76 | Wayne Davison) |
| 77 | |
| 78 | * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files |
| 79 | to not get backed up. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | * Improved the mkstemp error message to always include the directory |
| 82 | info where the temp file is being created. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | INTERNAL: |
| 85 | |
| 86 | * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped |
| 87 | supporting. (J.W. Schultz) |
| 88 | |
| 89 | * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) |
| 90 | |
| 91 | * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new |
| 92 | defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) |
| 93 | |
| 94 | |
| 95 | NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release |
| 96 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) |
| 97 | Changes since version 2.5.5: |
| 98 | |
| 99 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 100 | |
| 101 | * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) |
| 102 | |
| 103 | * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael |
| 104 | Zimmerman) |
| 105 | |
| 106 | * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the |
| 107 | specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) |
| 108 | server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such |
| 109 | as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) |
| 110 | |
| 111 | * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the |
| 112 | destination field. |
| 113 | |
| 114 | * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", |
| 115 | rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) |
| 116 | |
| 117 | * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that |
| 118 | unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. |
| 119 | (J.W. Schultz) |
| 120 | |
| 121 | * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an |
| 122 | rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) |
| 123 | |
| 124 | * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon |
| 125 | Middleton) |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" |
| 128 | and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) |
| 129 | |
| 130 | * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line |
| 131 | terminations. (J.W. Schultz) |
| 132 | |
| 133 | * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. |
| 134 | (Dave Dykstra) |
| 135 | |
| 136 | BUG FIXES: |
| 137 | |
| 138 | * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John |
| 139 | L. Allen, Martin Pool) |
| 140 | |
| 141 | * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not |
| 142 | in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents |
| 143 | timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) |
| 146 | |
| 147 | * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) |
| 148 | |
| 149 | * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that |
| 150 | contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file |
| 151 | list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) |
| 152 | |
| 153 | * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple |
| 154 | dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) |
| 155 | |
| 156 | * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child |
| 157 | processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing |
| 158 | an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) |
| 159 | |
| 160 | * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely |
| 161 | broken. (Dave Dykstra) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. |
| 164 | (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) |
| 165 | |
| 166 | * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories |
| 167 | when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) |
| 168 | |
| 169 | * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) |
| 170 | |
| 171 | INTERNAL: |
| 172 | |
| 173 | * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin |
| 174 | Pool, Nelson Beebe) |
| 175 | |
| 176 | * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) |
| 177 | |
| 178 | * More test cases. (Martin Pool) |
| 179 | |
| 180 | * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) |
| 181 | |
| 182 | * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. |
| 183 | (Jos Backus) |
| 184 | |
| 185 | * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this |
| 186 | means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) |