Tweaked a sentence.

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
       newline.
 
-    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
-      to it as a "file".
+    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
+      as a "directory", not a "file".
 
     - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
       generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
@@ -81,6 +81,20 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
       messages.  (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
 
+    - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
+      specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
+      destination).
+
+    - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
+      transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
+      delete anything.
+
+    - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
+      "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
+
+    - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
+      for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
@@ -94,6 +108,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
       can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
 
+    - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
+      sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
+      the checksum data for a large file.
+
     - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
       some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
       password mismatch, etc.).  (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
@@ -103,8 +121,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
     - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
-      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
-      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+      back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning).  This is
+      better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
+      daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
+      necessary to see the error on stderr).
 
     - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
       to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
@@ -116,9 +136,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
 
   INTERNAL:
 
-    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
+    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
+      discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
 
-    - Improved the naming of the logfile-open/-reopen/-close functions.
+    - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
 
     - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
       someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
@@ -139,4 +160,5 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
 
     - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
 
-    - Added a couple new diffs to the patches dir.
+    - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
+      enables the optional copying of extended attributes.