1 NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
7 - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
8 --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
9 "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
10 --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
11 or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
12 unchanged by default.)
14 - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
15 shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
16 both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
17 size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
18 incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
19 instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
20 letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
21 be increasing as new files are found.
25 - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
26 it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
30 - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
31 for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
33 - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
34 control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
35 using --info=progress2.
37 - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the
38 receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-
39 specified files generates an error).
41 - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
43 - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
44 (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for
45 protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and
46 deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type.
48 - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
49 ownership during the copy.
51 - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
52 MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
53 specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
55 - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
56 allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
58 - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf
59 file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a
60 daemon that was not run by a super-user.
64 - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
65 it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
67 - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
68 makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
69 passwd/group files from another machine.
73 - Added more conditional debug output.
75 - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
76 than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
78 - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
81 - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.