-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
- NEW FEATURES
+ - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+ permissions without recreating the file.
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
+ permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
+ the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
- * 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>
+ - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+ algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+ fails.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+ require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+ the exit status properly and generate a better error.
- * 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.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * 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.
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+ that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+ files).
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
+ and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
+ per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
+ transfer.
+
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - Some minor documentation improvements.
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ INTERNAL:
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
- PLATFORMS:
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+ the VA_COPY macro.
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- TESTING:
+ - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
+ configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
+ the newly patched feature.
- * 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.