- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
-
- - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
- transfer.
-
- - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
- rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
-
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
- to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
- of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
-
- - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
- --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
-
- - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
- preservation of attributes on symlinks.
-
- - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
- possible).
+ - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
+ to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly
+ (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory.
+ See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
+
+ - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a
+ 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is
+ the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with
+ the new incremental recursion mode.
+
+ - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete
+ files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass.
+
+ - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
+ to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+ acls.diff patch that will add that.)
+
+ - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
+ to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+ xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
+
+ - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve
+ all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom.
+ There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
+
+ - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
+ one character-set to another during the transfer. (If your system does
+ not support iconv, you must currently manually disable this by using
+ the --enable-iconv configure option.)
+
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
+ side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
+ older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
+ an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
+ or it will be silently ignored.*
+
+ - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
+ receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a
+ hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the
+ receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data
+ sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more
+ data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information
+ to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving
+ side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
+ the device+inode information on both sides).