-NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.8:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
BUG FIXES:
- - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
- once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
-
- - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
- sanitizes the symlink target strings (by default). This means that each
- symlink's value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink
- info intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any
- dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
- manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
- of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
- same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
- potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
- module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting.
-
- - 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 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.)
-
- - 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 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).
-
- - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
- trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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).
-
- - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
- the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
-
- - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
- the filesystem with --relative enabled.
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
- directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
+ - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
+ it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
+ filter rules.
+
+ - 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.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - 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 "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style
- tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied
- regardless of how "use chroot" is set.
-
- - 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.
+ - 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.
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - 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, and
+ moves the in-memory storage of the device+inode information from the
+ receiving side (for protocols < 30) to the sending side (note that
+ older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on both
+ sides).
+
+ INTERNAL:
- - 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.
+ - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
+ easier without forcing variables via casts.
- - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
+ string-handling functions.
+
+ - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
+
+ - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
+ compiler warning.
+
+ - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
+
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
- consistent opening comments.
+ - ...
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