- - 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).
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
- omitted the --server option.
-
- - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - 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).