1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
7 - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
9 - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
10 permissions without recreating the file.
12 - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
13 we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
14 hostspec as a filename.
16 - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
17 permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
18 the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
20 - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
21 algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
23 - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
26 - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
30 - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
31 that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
34 - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
35 preservation of attributes on symlinks.
37 - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
38 and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
39 per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
42 - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
43 the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
44 should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
45 rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
46 replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
47 dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
49 - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
50 unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
51 "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
52 file ownership that is implied by -a.
54 - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
55 which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
57 - Some minor documentation improvements.
61 - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
62 MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
64 - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
65 with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.