1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
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.
11 - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if
12 both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files
13 are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
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
21 - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
22 that already exists in the --backup-dir.
24 - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
25 setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
26 mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
28 - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
29 the sender, and the file-list is large.
31 - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
32 FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
35 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
37 - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
39 - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
40 that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
42 - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
43 referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
44 user and group of a symlink.
46 - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
47 rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
49 - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a
50 relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
51 file that was put into the partial-dir.
55 - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
56 use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
58 - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
59 from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
60 transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
61 default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
62 --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
63 an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
64 really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options.
66 - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
67 that it includes copies of identical files.
69 - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
70 --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
71 patches dir and enhanced.)
73 - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
75 - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
76 so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
77 start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
78 cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
80 - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
81 to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
82 that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
84 - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
87 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
88 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
91 - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
92 --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
94 - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
97 - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
98 put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
99 option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
100 non-recursive listing).
102 - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
103 modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
104 really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
105 the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
108 - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
109 rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
110 that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
111 filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
112 This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
113 include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
116 - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
117 a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
118 --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
119 makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
123 - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
124 files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
125 once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
126 --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
128 - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
129 translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
130 points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
131 relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
133 - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
134 all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
135 corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
136 receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
138 - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
139 perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
140 can be run by an ssh invocation.
144 - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
147 - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
151 - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().