1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
7 - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
8 multiple source directories were specified.
10 - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
11 over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
13 - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
14 the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
15 terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
17 - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
18 no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
21 - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
22 (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
24 - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
25 items are now excluded from being uploaded (if the module is not
26 read-only) as well as downloaded.
28 - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
29 the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
31 - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
32 batch-processing options.
36 - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
38 - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
39 and documented all these options in the man page.
43 - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some memory and made
44 things easier to maintain.
46 - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
47 rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
51 - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the various generated
52 files, including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and
55 - The timestamp of the proto.h file is unaltered by "make proto"
56 if the contents don't change.
60 - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
62 NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
63 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
68 - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative
69 is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were
70 affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list
71 item when requesting changes from the sender.
73 - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to
74 better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system.
76 - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages
77 rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix
78 will be sought in the future.)
80 - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid
81 code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.)
85 - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used
86 and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the
87 broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an
90 - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define
93 - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that
94 don't support __attribute__.
98 - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1.
100 - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir.
103 NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004)
104 Protocol: 28 (changed)
109 - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when
110 chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync
111 daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the
112 user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody".
116 - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket,
117 and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details).
119 - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
120 "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
123 - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer
124 we are, including both a count of files transferred and a
125 percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also
126 shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time
129 - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis-
130 understood features more clearly.
134 - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or
135 --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the
136 referent file is on a different filesystem.
138 - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when
139 (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was
140 specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on
141 the destination and -g was specified.
143 - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause
144 the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get
145 overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
147 - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of
148 each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer
149 with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file
150 than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered
151 over the wire for that file.
153 - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines.
156 - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
157 per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
158 directory (not all following directories too). The items are also
159 now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing.
161 - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part
162 can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to
163 find the HOST, not the first).
165 - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users:
166 (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name
167 for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in
168 that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer
169 attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission
172 - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
174 - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount-
175 point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that
176 it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount-
177 point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the
178 original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be
181 - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
182 when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
183 that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them).
185 - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with
186 or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as
187 --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative
188 one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless.
189 Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the
190 module's base dir when chroot is not enabled.
192 - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync
193 versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without
194 telling us that --backup-dir was specified.
196 - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process
197 now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems
198 that have a length field in their socket structs.
200 - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending
201 files to an rsync daemon.
205 - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large
206 speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
208 - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some
209 significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets.
211 - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent.
213 - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
216 - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up
217 the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
219 - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
220 group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
221 prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
222 hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
223 earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
226 - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released
227 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25
228 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz,
231 - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
233 - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
235 - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
237 - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
239 - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list
240 during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory
241 bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory).
242 Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared,
243 resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving
244 side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions
245 are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way
246 for the entire transfer.
248 - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation
249 pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits
250 freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
252 - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
253 (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and
254 the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the
255 "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from
256 the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator
257 over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and
258 verbose --stats output).
260 - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a
261 little more optimized.
263 - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as
264 separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28).
265 Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit
266 number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more
267 compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the
268 connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the
269 binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in
270 fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is
273 - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made
274 things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient.
276 - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now
277 handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the
278 wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the
279 batch code is still considered to be experimental.)
283 - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to
284 override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
286 - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
288 - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
289 sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
293 - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
295 - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones
296 that got applied, and rebuilt the rest.