1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
5 OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
7 - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
8 term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
9 you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
10 would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
11 indicator that the verbose output is over.
13 - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
14 "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
16 - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
17 with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
18 filename from causing an empty line to be output).
22 - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
23 multiple source directories were specified.
25 - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
28 - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
29 over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
31 - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
32 the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
33 terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
35 - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
36 data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
37 file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
38 retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
39 (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
40 older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
41 older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
44 - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
45 is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
46 overwrite the original file in the backup area).
48 - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
49 items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
50 allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
52 - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
55 - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
56 the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
58 - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
59 for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
62 - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
63 the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
64 option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
66 - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
67 refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
68 to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
71 - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
72 the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
75 - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
76 batch-processing options.
78 - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
79 implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
80 that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
81 implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
82 suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
85 - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
86 messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
87 die with a socket-write error).
89 - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
90 hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
91 that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
94 - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
95 the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
97 - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
98 can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
99 This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
102 - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
103 (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
105 - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
106 exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
107 sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
111 - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
112 (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
113 writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
115 - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
116 onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
117 as matching a normal directory from the sender.
119 - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
120 file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
121 in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
122 are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
123 Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
125 - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
127 - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
128 and documented all these options in the man page.
130 - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
131 bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
134 - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
135 SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
137 - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
139 - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
140 fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
141 sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
142 systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
143 to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
144 file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
145 stdin over a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
146 same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
148 - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
149 presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
150 authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
151 if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
152 error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
155 - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
156 option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
158 - The finished file now gets its permissions and modified-time updated
159 before it gets moved into place.
161 - Lots of documentation improvements in the exclude/include sections.
165 - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
166 and made the code easier to maintain.
168 - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
171 - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
172 with strerror() as an arg.
174 - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
175 IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
176 handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
179 - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
180 crawl if the block size got too large).
182 - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
184 - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
185 makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
186 being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
187 sides when sending the file-list).
189 - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
190 arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
191 functionality into the latter.
195 - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
196 including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
198 - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
199 proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
202 - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
203 target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
204 have $STRIP set in the environment.
206 - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
210 - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
213 - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted