-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+ was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+ file).
+
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+ mkstemp().
+
+ - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+ FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+ necessary.
+
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a
+ user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
+ could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
+
+ - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+ file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+ partial file.
+
+ BUILD CHANGES:
+
+ - Support an OS that uses mkdev() instead of makedev().
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
+ rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
+ transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
+ file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
+ disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
+ rsync under is anything above "nobody".
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
+
+ - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
+ term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
+ you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
+ would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
+ indicator that the verbose output is over.
+
+ - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
+ "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
+ - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
+ with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
+ filename from causing an empty line to be output).
+
+ - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
+ options are specified is now the same both with and without the
+ --backup-dir option.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
- - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
checksums.
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
- no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
- specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
- work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
- don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
+ data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
+ file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
+ retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
+ (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
+ older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
+ older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
+ error.)
- If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
- is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
- original file in the process).
-
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
+ overwrite the original file in the backup area).
- Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
"vanished".
+ - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
+ the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
+ option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
+
- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
+ refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
+ (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
+ wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
- - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
- the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
- be daemon-only).
+ - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
+ returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
+ intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
help).
+ - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+ messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
+ die with a socket-write error).
+
+ - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+ hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+ that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
+ behavior).
+
+ - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+ the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+
+ - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
+ can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
+ This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
+ AIX and HP-UX.
+
+ - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+ (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+
+ - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
+ exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
+ sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
+
+ - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
+ with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
+
+ - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
+ user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
+ using the "2>&1").
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+ (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+ writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+ Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
+ that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
+ the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
+
- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
as matching a normal directory from the sender.
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+ - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+ file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
+ in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+ are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
+ Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+
+ - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
and documented all these options in the man page.
- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
- - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is
- simpler, fixes a few weird problems with the old code, and is much
- less intrusive into the code (making it easier to maintain for the
- future). (Chris Shoemaker)
+ - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
+ fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
+ sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
+ systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
+ to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
+ file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
+ stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
+ same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
+ presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
+ authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
+ if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
+ error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
+ names.
+
+ - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
+ option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
+
+ - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
+ updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
+ finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
+ disallowed all group and world access.
+
+ - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
+ (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
+
+ - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
+ filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
+ limit).
INTERNAL:
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
and made the code easier to maintain.
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
- a lot of args.
+ - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
+ lot of args.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
+ with strerror() as an arg.
- If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
them).
+ - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
+ crawl if the block size got too large).
+
- Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+ - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
+ makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
+ being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
+ sides when sending the file-list).
+
+ - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
+ arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
+ functionality into the latter.
+
+ - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
+ specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
+ not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.
+ have $STRIP already set in the environment.
- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
+ - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
+ be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
+ new tests added.
- Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
ones were removed.