-NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.5:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
- This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
- (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
- combined with --list-dest).
+ - 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 outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
- without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as thought
- it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
- file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
- a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
- totally unchanged items).
+ - 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.
- - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
- item so that we don't get an already-exists error.
+ - 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 when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
+ update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
+ notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
+ instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
+
+ - 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 an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
+ overly long.
+
+ - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
+ longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
+ the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
+ may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
- per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
+ - 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 the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
+ from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+
+ - 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.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
+ changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
+ calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
+ an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
+ values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
+ functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
+ could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
+ that conditionally compiles the code.
+
+ - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
+ top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
+
+ - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
+ The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
+ was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
+ any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
+
+ - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
+ define it.
- - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
- that take them (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
- also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
- of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - 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.
+ The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code
+ that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes.
- - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
- NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
- find in the /etc/group file).
+ - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
+ better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
- - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
- -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
+ - 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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