1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
7 - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
8 not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
11 - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
12 that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash.
14 - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
15 permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
17 - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
18 basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
21 - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
24 - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
25 addition to its use in daemon mode).
27 - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
28 processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
31 - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
34 - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
35 generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
36 the file by the destination filename.
38 - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
39 generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
41 - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
42 to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
47 - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
48 of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
49 actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
50 the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
51 are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
53 - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
54 characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
55 using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
57 - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
58 some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
59 password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
61 - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
62 it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
63 really did expect the socket to close).
65 - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
66 back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
67 silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
71 - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
75 - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
76 rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
78 - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
80 - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
81 refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
83 - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
84 the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
85 presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.