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 case where the generator might try to tweak the write
12 permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
14 - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
15 basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
18 - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
21 - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
22 addition to its use in daemon mode).
24 - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
25 processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
28 - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
33 - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
34 of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
35 actual updating of the destination.
37 - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
38 characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
39 using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
41 - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
42 some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
43 password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
45 - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
46 it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
47 really did expect the socket to close).
51 - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
55 - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
56 rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
58 - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
60 - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
61 refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
63 - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
64 the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
65 presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.