| | 1 | NEWS for rsync version 2.6.0 |
| | 2 | Protocol: 27 (changed) |
| | 3 | Changes since version 2.5.7: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to |
| | 8 | change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. |
| | 11 | Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the |
| | 12 | files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison |
| | 15 | 27. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). |
| | 18 | The per-file checksum size is determined according |
| | 19 | to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which |
| | 20 | reduces the probability of rsync algorithm |
| | 21 | corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 |
| | 22 | checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary |
| | 25 | unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the |
| | 28 | sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the |
| | 29 | file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. |
| | 34 | This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the |
| | 35 | matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not |
| | 36 | cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like |
| | 37 | what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. |
| | 40 | For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo). |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of |
| | 45 | the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, |
| | 46 | just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched |
| | 49 | against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if |
| | 50 | there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" |
| | 51 | would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as |
| | 52 | "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance). |
| | 53 | |
| | 54 | * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now |
| | 55 | properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the |
| | 56 | user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the |
| | 59 | block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. |
| | 60 | Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. |
| | 61 | (Craig Barratt) |
| | 62 | |
| | 63 | * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in |
| | 64 | mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit |
| | 65 | counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for |
| | 66 | file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and |
| | 69 | multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. |
| | 70 | (Wayne Davison) |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. |
| | 75 | |
| | 76 | * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more |
| | 77 | consistent manner. |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file |
| | 82 | that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and |
| | 83 | Wayne Davison) |
| | 84 | |
| | 85 | * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files |
| | 86 | to not get backed up. |
| | 87 | |
| | 88 | * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. |
| | 89 | |
| | 90 | * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly |
| | 91 | what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 92 | |
| | 93 | * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when |
| | 94 | using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing |
| | 97 | special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or |
| | 98 | --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the |
| | 99 | same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a |
| | 100 | regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 101 | |
| | 102 | * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and |
| | 103 | readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated |
| | 104 | files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings |
| | 107 | if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. |
| | 108 | |
| | 109 | INTERNAL: |
| | 110 | |
| | 111 | * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped |
| | 112 | supporting. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 113 | |
| | 114 | * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 115 | |
| | 116 | * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new |
| | 117 | defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a |
| | 120 | lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. |
| | 121 | Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value |
| | 122 | we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). |
| | 123 | (Wayne Davison) |
| | 124 | |
| | 125 | |
| | 126 | NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7: |
| | 127 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) |
| | 128 | Changes since version 2.5.6: |
| | 129 | |
| | 130 | SECURITY: |
| | 131 | |
| | 132 | * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul |
| | 133 | Russell, Andrea Barisani) |
| | 134 | |
| | 135 | |
| | 136 | NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release |
| | 137 | Protocol: 26 (unchanged) |
| | 138 | Changes since version 2.5.5: |
| | 139 | |
| | 140 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 141 | |
| | 142 | * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 143 | |
| | 144 | * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael |
| | 145 | Zimmerman) |
| | 146 | |
| | 147 | * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the |
| | 148 | specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) |
| | 149 | server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such |
| | 150 | as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) |
| | 151 | |
| | 152 | * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the |
| | 153 | destination field. |
| | 154 | |
| | 155 | * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", |
| | 156 | rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 157 | |
| | 158 | * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that |
| | 159 | unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. |
| | 160 | (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 161 | |
| | 162 | * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an |
| | 163 | rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) |
| | 164 | |
| | 165 | * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon |
| | 166 | Middleton) |
| | 167 | |
| | 168 | * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" |
| | 169 | and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) |
| | 170 | |
| | 171 | * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line |
| | 172 | terminations. (J.W. Schultz) |
| | 173 | |
| | 174 | * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. |
| | 175 | (Dave Dykstra) |
| | 176 | |
| | 177 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 178 | |
| | 179 | * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John |
| | 180 | L. Allen, Martin Pool) |
| | 181 | |
| | 182 | * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not |
| | 183 | in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents |
| | 184 | timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) |
| | 185 | |
| | 186 | * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) |
| | 187 | |
| | 188 | * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) |
| | 189 | |
| | 190 | * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that |
| | 191 | contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file |
| | 192 | list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 193 | |
| | 194 | * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple |
| | 195 | dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) |
| | 196 | |
| | 197 | * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child |
| | 198 | processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing |
| | 199 | an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) |
| | 200 | |
| | 201 | * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely |
| | 202 | broken. (Dave Dykstra) |
| | 203 | |
| | 204 | * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. |
| | 205 | (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) |
| | 206 | |
| | 207 | * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories |
| | 208 | when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) |
| | 209 | |
| | 210 | * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) |
| | 211 | |
| | 212 | INTERNAL: |
| | 213 | |
| | 214 | * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin |
| | 215 | Pool, Nelson Beebe) |
| | 216 | |
| | 217 | * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) |
| | 218 | |
| | 219 | * More test cases. (Martin Pool) |
| | 220 | |
| | 221 | * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) |
| | 222 | |
| | 223 | * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. |
| | 224 | (Jos Backus) |
| | 225 | |
| | 226 | * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this |
| | 227 | means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) |
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