Preparing for release of 2.6.8pre1

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -13,16 +13,30 @@ Changes since 2.6.7:
       never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
       the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 
       never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
       the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 

+    - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+      that caused by a bad sector) would make rsync think that the file's
+      read-position was left after the failed read's data.
+
+    - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+      init).
+
+    - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+      instead of silently ignoring the option.
+

   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
       error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
       error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
 

-    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
-      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+    - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+      message.
+
+    - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+      that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.

 
 

-    - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
-      attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+    - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+      attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)

       taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
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       taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
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