-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.4:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
- - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
- escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
- output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
- is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
- can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
-
- - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
- output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
- status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
- this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
- to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we
- now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
- exit with the appropriate exit status.
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
- not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
- rsyncd.conf file.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
- (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
-
- - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
- write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
- only caused an annoying warning message).
-
- - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
- basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
- is in effect.
-
- - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
- processing.
-
- - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
- addition to its use in daemon mode).
+ NOTABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR:
- - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
- processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
- newline.
+ - 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.
- - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
- as a "directory", not a "file".
+ BUG FIXES:
- - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
- generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
- the file by the destination filename.
+ - 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 bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
- generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
+ - 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 bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
- to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
- of the cluster.
+ - 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.
- - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
- no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
- receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
- the mount-point dir.
+ - A negated filter rule (with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the negation
+ when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
- - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
- sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+ - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it
+ would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
- - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
- trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+ - 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.
- - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
- handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+ - 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 omission of some directories in the delete processing when
- --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
- slash.
+ - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
+ directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
- - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
- re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
- (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
- trailing slash.
+ - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
+ output as a creation event, not a change event.
- - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+ - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
+ when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
- - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
- the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
- messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
+ - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
- - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
- "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
- dir of the destination).
+ - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
+ any missing backup directories are now created.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
+ --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
- - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
- "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
+ - 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.
- - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
- for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
- compatibility with OS variations).
+ - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
- of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
- actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
- the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
- are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
-
- - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
- (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
- 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.
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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 an
+ empty hostname, as seen here: :file1 ::module/file2. This means that
+ local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:path/{f1,f2} .
+
+ - 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 (*?[).
+
+ - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
+
+ - We now support a lot more --no-OPTION override options.
- - 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!)
-
- - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
- it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
- really did expect the socket to close).
+ INTERNAL:
- - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
- back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better
- than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
- daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
- necessary to see the error on stderr).
+ - 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.
- - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
- instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
- non-daemon transfer).
+ - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
- - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
- support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
- when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
- other similar options being added at some point).
+ - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
+ easier without forcing variables via casts.
- - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to
- better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
- messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
- locales).
+ - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
- - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
+ - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
+ string-handling functions.
- - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
- someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
+ - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
+ compiler warning.
- - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
- setlocale() in the binary.
+ - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+ - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
+ omitted the --server option.
- - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
- - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
- refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+ - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
+ sections of a pool's memory.
- - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
- the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
- presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
- (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
+ - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
- - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+ - 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).
- - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
- that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+ - 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).
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