| | 1 | NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) |
| | 2 | Protocol: 29 (changed) |
| | 3 | Changes since 2.6.3: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | OUTPUT CHANGES: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about |
| | 8 | it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only |
| | 9 | sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both |
| | 12 | sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are |
| | 13 | being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | BUG FIXES: |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 |
| | 18 | was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude |
| | 19 | file). |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v). |
| | 22 | It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination |
| | 25 | that already exists in the --backup-dir. |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed |
| | 28 | setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with |
| | 29 | mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is |
| | 32 | the sender, and the file-list is large. |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating |
| | 35 | FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when |
| | 36 | necessary. |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks |
| | 43 | that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the |
| | 46 | referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the |
| | 47 | user and group of a symlink. |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time |
| | 50 | rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a |
| | 53 | relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a |
| | 54 | file that was put into the partial-dir. |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a |
| | 59 | server sender. |
| | 60 | |
| | 61 | - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the |
| | 62 | client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a |
| | 63 | compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure |
| | 64 | if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have |
| | 65 | exited with an error for large files). |
| | 66 | |
| | 67 | - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not |
| | 68 | being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error |
| | 69 | about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was |
| | 70 | specified). |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | ENHANCEMENTS: |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can |
| | 75 | use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. |
| | 76 | |
| | 77 | - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files |
| | 78 | from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the |
| | 79 | transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the |
| | 80 | default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the |
| | 81 | --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so |
| | 82 | an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, |
| | 83 | really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The |
| | 84 | default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via |
| | 85 | --delete-before. |
| | 86 | |
| | 87 | - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: |
| | 88 | Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created |
| | 89 | on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new |
| | 90 | algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time. |
| | 91 | |
| | 92 | - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except |
| | 93 | that it includes copies of identical files. |
| | 94 | |
| | 95 | - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or |
| | 96 | --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the |
| | 97 | patches dir and enhanced.) |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options |
| | 102 | so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to |
| | 103 | start a daemon that had improper default option values that could |
| | 104 | cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon |
| | 107 | to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value |
| | 108 | that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. |
| | 109 | |
| | 110 | - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from |
| | 111 | the patches dir.) Also added "address". |
| | 112 | |
| | 113 | - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received |
| | 114 | file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the |
| | 115 | partial file. |
| | 116 | |
| | 117 | - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, |
| | 118 | --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. |
| | 119 | |
| | 120 | - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories |
| | 121 | without recursion. |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to |
| | 124 | put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any |
| | 125 | option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a |
| | 126 | non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a |
| | 127 | modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified |
| | 128 | manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over |
| | 129 | a remote-shell connection. |
| | 130 | |
| | 131 | - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the |
| | 132 | modified time for directories when --times was specified. This |
| | 133 | option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of |
| | 134 | the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in |
| | 135 | an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. |
| | 136 | |
| | 137 | - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter |
| | 138 | rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling |
| | 139 | that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory |
| | 140 | filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). |
| | 141 | This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing |
| | 142 | include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older |
| | 143 | versions. |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into |
| | 146 | a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the |
| | 147 | --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This |
| | 148 | makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. |
| | 149 | |
| | 150 | - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is |
| | 151 | reduced. |
| | 152 | |
| | 153 | - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This |
| | 154 | setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) |
| | 155 | |
| | 156 | SUPPORT FILES: |
| | 157 | |
| | 158 | - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some |
| | 159 | files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at |
| | 160 | once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses |
| | 161 | --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. |
| | 162 | |
| | 163 | - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and |
| | 164 | translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount |
| | 165 | points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made |
| | 166 | relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. |
| | 167 | |
| | 168 | - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of |
| | 169 | all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data |
| | 170 | corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the |
| | 171 | receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. |
| | 172 | |
| | 173 | - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync |
| | 174 | perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands |
| | 175 | can be run by an ssh invocation. |
| | 176 | |
| | 177 | - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. |
| | 178 | |
| | 179 | INTERNAL: |
| | 180 | |
| | 181 | - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over |
| | 182 | the socket. |
| | 183 | |
| | 184 | - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so |
| | 185 | that it is easier to maintain. |
| | 186 | |
| | 187 | - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for |
| | 188 | consistency and proper size. |
| | 189 | |
| | 190 | - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). |
| | 191 | |
| | 192 | - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. |
| | 193 | |
| | 194 | - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't |
| | 195 | find a variable with at least 32 bits. |
| | 196 | |
| | 197 | BUILD CHANGES: |
| | 198 | |
| | 199 | - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). |
| | 200 | |
| | 201 | - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. |
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