1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
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
11 - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
12 that already exists in the --backup-dir.
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.)
18 - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
19 the sender, and the file-list is large.
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
25 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
27 - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
29 - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
30 that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
34 - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
35 use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
37 - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
38 that it includes copies of identical files.
40 - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
41 --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
42 patches dir and enhanced.)
44 - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
46 - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
47 so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
48 start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
49 cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
51 - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
52 to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
53 that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
55 - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
58 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
59 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
64 - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().