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
18 - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
19 FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
22 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
26 - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
27 so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a
28 user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
29 could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
31 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
32 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
37 - Support an OS that uses mkdev() instead of makedev().
40 NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
41 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
46 - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
47 rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
48 transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
49 file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
50 disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
51 rsync under is anything above "nobody".
53 OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
55 - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
56 term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
57 you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
58 would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
59 indicator that the verbose output is over.
61 - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
62 "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
64 - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
65 with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
66 filename from causing an empty line to be output).
68 - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
69 options are specified is now the same both with and without the
74 - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
75 multiple source directories were specified.
77 - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
80 - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
81 over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
83 - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
84 the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
85 terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
87 - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
88 data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
89 file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
90 retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
91 (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
92 older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
93 older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
96 - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
97 is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
98 overwrite the original file in the backup area).
100 - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
101 items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
102 allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
104 - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
107 - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
108 the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
110 - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
111 for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
114 - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
115 the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
116 option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
118 - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
119 refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
120 (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
121 wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
123 - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
124 returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
125 intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
127 - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
128 batch-processing options.
130 - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
131 implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
132 that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
133 implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
134 suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
137 - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
138 messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
139 die with a socket-write error).
141 - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
142 hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
143 that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
146 - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
147 the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
149 - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
150 can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
151 This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
154 - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
155 (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
157 - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
158 exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
159 sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
161 - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
162 with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
164 - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
165 user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
170 - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
171 (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
172 writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
173 Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
174 that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
175 the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
177 - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
178 onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
179 as matching a normal directory from the sender.
181 - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
182 file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
183 in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
184 are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
185 Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
187 - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
189 - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
190 and documented all these options in the man page.
192 - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
193 bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
196 - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
197 SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
199 - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
201 - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
202 fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
203 sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
204 systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
205 to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
206 file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
207 stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
208 same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
210 - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
211 presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
212 authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
213 if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
214 error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
217 - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
218 option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
220 - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
221 updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
222 finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
223 disallowed all group and world access.
225 - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
226 (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
228 - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
229 filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
234 - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
235 and made the code easier to maintain.
237 - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
240 - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
241 with strerror() as an arg.
243 - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
244 IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
245 handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
248 - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
249 crawl if the block size got too large).
251 - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
253 - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
254 makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
255 being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
256 sides when sending the file-list).
258 - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
259 arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
260 functionality into the latter.
262 - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
263 specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
264 not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
268 - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
269 including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
271 - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
272 proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
275 - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
276 target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
277 have $STRIP already set in the environment.
279 - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
281 - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
282 be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
286 - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
289 - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted