-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
filename from causing an empty line to be output).
+ - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
+ options are specified is now the same both with and without the
+ --backup-dir option.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
- - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
checksums.
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
+ refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
+ (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
+ wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
- - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
- the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
- be daemon-only).
+ - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
+ returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
+ intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
- When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
- that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
- rename() behavior).
+ that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
+ behavior).
- Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
- - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
- options are specified is now the same both with and without the
- --backup-dir option.
-
- Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
+ - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
+ user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
+ using the "2>&1").
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.
+ have $STRIP already set in the environment.
- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
+ - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
+ be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few