Protocol: 30 (changed)
Changes since 2.6.9:
+ NOTABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR:
+
+ - 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.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
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.
+ - A negated filter rule (with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the negation
+ when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
- - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
+ - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it
would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
- Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
- Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+ - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
+ output as a creation event, not a change event.
+
+ - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
+ when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+
+ - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
+
+ - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
+ any missing backup directories are now created.
+
+ - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
+ --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
- to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly
+ 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. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
- acls.diff patch that will add that.)
+ 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, the new
- xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
+ 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. (Currently must be
- manually enabled via configure's --enable-iconv option.)
-
- - 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.*
+ 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
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.
+
INTERNAL:
+ - 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.
+
- Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
- Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
- Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
easier without forcing variables via casts.
+ - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
+
- Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
string-handling functions.
- Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+ - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
+ sections of a pool's memory.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+
+ - 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).
+
- 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 (which would be the case if every minor change made
- to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).
+ 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).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff