-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
+ once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - 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 a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
- terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+ - 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.)
- - 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.)
+ - 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.
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - 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).
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
- allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+ - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
+ trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - 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.
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
+ - 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).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another patition 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.
+ - 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 long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - 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).
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
+ the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
+ - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
+ the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - 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).
- INTERNAL:
+ - 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.
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
+ directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated).
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.)
+
+ - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
+ the daemon's config file.
+
+ - 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.)
+
+ - 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.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - 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.
- - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir (and some accepted
- ones were removed as well).
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.
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