-rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*-
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- NEW FEATURES
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
+ not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
- sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
- Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
- including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
- includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
- Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
- portability project, and OpenBSD.
+ - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
+ CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
+ of rounding.h fails.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
+ that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
+ the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
+ protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
+ file) was already working.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if
+ --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard-
+ linked set of files, but not all of them).
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- file to get cleaned out by another process.
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
+ itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
+ and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
+ between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
+ revised version with a new value (e.g. symlink referent, device
+ numbers).
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
+ longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
+ date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
+ ownership, xattrs, etc.).
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it
+ automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
+ wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
+ listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
+ --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
+
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
+
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
+ sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
+
+ - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
+ normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
+ not have caused problems, though.)
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
+ unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
+ the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
+
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
-
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
-
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
-
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
-
- * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
- overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
- ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
-
- PLATFORMS:
-
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
-
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
-
- * Platforms thought to work in this release:
-
- Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
- Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
- Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
- FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
- FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
- FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
- HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
- HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
- IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
- IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
- Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
- NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
- NetBSD Current i386 cc
- OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
- OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
- OpenBSD Current i386 cc
- RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
- RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
- RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
- RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
- Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
- Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
- Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
- Solaris 8 i386 gcc
- SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
- SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
- i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
- i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
- powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
- i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
- i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
-
- TESTING:
-
- * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
- test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
- build farm.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.
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