-NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.9:
-
- NOTABLE CHANGE:
-
- - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed
- to send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a
- symlink). This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely
- affect most people. If you're one of those rare people who relied
- upon having an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, either specify
- --keep-dirlinks or --no-implied-dirs.
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
- it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
- option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
- matching items.
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a
- signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being
- able to get the exit status from the script.
+ - 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.
- - A negated filter rule (with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the negation
- when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it
- would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
- files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the
- copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats.
+ - 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.
- - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains
- and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this
- option to control a remote shell's password prompt.
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
- directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+ - 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.
- - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
- output as a creation event, not a change event.
+ - 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).
- - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
- when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
+ - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of excluding
+ a wider range of path entries. It also sends the user an error about
+ "missing" files instead of silently ignoring them.
- - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
- any missing backup directories are now created.
+ - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
+ handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
- - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
- --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
+ - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
- - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon does not delete the pidfile
- for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the extra program will
- exit with an error.
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
- to another 3.x 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.
-
- - Saved memory in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical
- option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file).
-
- - 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, and it even
- supports OS X ACLs. (If you need to have backward compatibility with
- old, patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
- dir.)
-
- - 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 of rsync, apply
- the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.)
-
- - 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. The default is to make
- this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If
- compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then
- rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by
- default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default
- value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example,
- --enable-iconv=. is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an
- explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
-
- - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override of the default list of
- file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
-
- - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include:
- *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg
- The matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly.
-
- - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
- deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older
- versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
-
- - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
- about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure
- what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1,
- as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though
- older versions don't warn).
-
- - 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).
-
- - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules
- that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g.
- -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
-
- - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about
- it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not
- that important).
-
- - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4.
-
- - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code
- now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly).
-
- - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the
- destination file, which speeds up file appending.
-
- - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append
- option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For
- compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
- talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
-
- - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
- that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
-
- - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of
- the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args
- to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting,
- and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[).
-
- - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
- having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
- shell. (Additional remote args must specify the same host or have no
- hostname.)
-
- - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
-
- - We now support a lot more --no-OPTION override options.
+ - 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).
- INTERNAL:
+ - 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.).
- - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same-
- named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows
- rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one
- that will be included in the copy. The new sort was also faster
- than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort() in my testing.
+ - 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.
- - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
+ - 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).
- - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
- - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
- easier without forcing variables via casts.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
+ - 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.
- - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
- string-handling functions.
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
- - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
- compiler warning.
+ - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
+ parameters.
- - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
+ INTERNAL:
- - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
- omitted the --server option.
+ - 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).
- - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+ - 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.)
- - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
- sections of a pool's memory.
+ - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
+ "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory
+ churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
+ args.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+ - 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.
- - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub-
- directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows
- someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is
- useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs,
- and another file system does).
+ - The RPM spec file was updated to have (1) comments for how to use the
+ rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.
- - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
- development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version
- info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking
- in older versions (since we'd quickly exceed the MAX_PROTOCOL_VERSION
- if we incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value for every minor
- change during development).
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff