-NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.8:
+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.) When some level of human-readable output is
+ enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output
+ is increased.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
+ follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
+ list broken down by type.
BUG FIXES:
- - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
- once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
- --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
- the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
- these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
- (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
- incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
- how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
- directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
- generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
- also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
- the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
- process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
- receiving files.)
+ - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
+ help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
+ abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
+ closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
- - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
- update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
- notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
- instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
-
- - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
- relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
- gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
- destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
- when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
+ - 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.
- - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
- trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
+ - 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.
- - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
- will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
- even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
+ - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
+ debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
+ protocol.
- - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
- chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
- from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
- over and over again).
+ - 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).
- - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
- it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
- to successfully update a destination file.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
- merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
- only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
- done for global include/excludes).
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
- the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+ - 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).
- - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
- the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
- permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
- problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
- will not update a file that has no write permissions).
+ - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
+ config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
+ specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
+ daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
+ values, even when not run by a super-user.
- - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
- are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
- directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
- overly long.
+ - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
+ sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
- - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
- longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
- the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
- may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
+ - 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.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
- - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
- can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
- They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
- page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
- settings when starting a daemon.
+ - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
- - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
- it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
- alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
- - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
- the daemon's config file.
+ - Added some Solaris xattr code.
- - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
- deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
- non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
- up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
- was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
- a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
- (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
- still behaves in the same way as before.)
+ EXTRAS:
- - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
- from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
- the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
- both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
- command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
+ - 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.
INTERNAL:
- - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
- changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
- calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
- an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
- values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
- functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
- could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
- that conditionally compiles the code.
+ - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
+ over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
+ changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
- - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
- top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
+ - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
+ files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
+ parallel manner.
- - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
- The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
- was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
- any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
+ - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
+ so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
- - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
- define it.
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
- make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
- The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code
- that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes.
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
- maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
- without actually running as root. It does this using a special
- extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
- acls.diff).
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
- better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
- - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
- consistent opening comments.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
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