NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 31 (changed) Changes since 3.0.4: OUTPUT CHANGES: - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is unchanged by default.) - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still be increasing as new files are found. BUG FIXES: - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option. - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output using --info=progress2. - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files generates an error). - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type. - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file ownership during the copy. - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a daemon that was not run by a super-user. - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file, the update should now be done in an atomic manner. - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic. EXTRAS: - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on passwd/group files from another machine. DEVELOPER RELATED: - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to read better, and do better sanity checking. - Added more conditional debug output. - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment handling. - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.