- - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
- implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive
- --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
- that is implied by -a.
-
- - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
- be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
-
- - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
- a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
- files copied to and from the daemon.
-
- - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
- sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
-
- - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
- delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
-
- - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
- --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files
- with the backup suffix are not deleted.
-
- - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
- better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
- to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
- a total of 9999.
-
- - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
- stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
- dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
-
- - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
- discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
- easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
- just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
-
- - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
- unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
- the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
- client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
- needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
-
- - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special
- files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices
- option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block).
- The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a
- still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that
- omits device copying.
-
- - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user
- activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
- to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
- useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
- receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
-
- - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
- options used to contact a daemon rsync.
-
- - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
- setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
- --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
-
- - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
- into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
-
- - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
- execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
- not desired.
-
- - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
- that it receives.
-
- - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
- (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
-
- - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
-
- - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
- removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
- clump up all the removals at the end).