-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+ sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
- NEW FEATURES
+ - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
+ sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
+ being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
+
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+ was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+ file).
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
+ It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
- * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
- sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
- Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+ mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+ FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+ necessary.
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- file to get cleaned out by another process.
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
- * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a
+ relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
+ file that was put into the partial-dir.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
+ server sender.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
+ client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
+ compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
+ if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have
+ exited with an error for large files).
+
+ - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
+ being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error
+ about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
+ specified).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
+
+ - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
+ from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
+ transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
+ default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
+ --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
+ an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
+ really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The
+ default behavior is also explicitly selectable via --delete-before.
+
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
+
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+ --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+ patches dir and enhanced.)
+
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
+
+ - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
+ start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+ cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+
+ - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
+ to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
+ that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.) Also added "address".
+
+ - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+ file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+ partial file.
+
+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+
+ - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
+
+ - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+ put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+ option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+ non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a
+ modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified
+ manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over
+ a remote-shell connection.
+
+ - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
+ modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
+ option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
+ the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in
+ an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer.
+
+ - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
+ rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
+ that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
+ filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
+ This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
+ include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
+ versions.
+
+ - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
+ a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
+ --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
+ makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
+
+ - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
+ reduced.
+
+ - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
+ setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
+
+ SUPPORT FILES:
+
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
+
+ - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
+ translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
+ points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
+ relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
+
+ - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
+ all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
+ corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
+ receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
+
+ - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
+ perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
+ can be run by an ssh invocation.
+
+ - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
+ the socket.
+
+ - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so
+ that it is easier to maintain.
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
+ consistency and proper size.
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
+ - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
+ find a variable with at least 32 bits.
- * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- PLATFORMS:
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.