-NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 27 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.0:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over
- the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details).
-
- * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
- "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
- (Bardur Arantsson)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
BUG FIXES:
- * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user
- when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -u was
- specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on
- the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
+ files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
- * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might
- cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to
- get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Keep per-file track of the sending of literal data with
- --partial so that an interrupted transfer doesn't keep a
- shorter temp file when no new data has been transfered over
- the wire. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
+ - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+ permissions without recreating the file.
- * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
-
- INTERNAL:
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
+ - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
+ permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
+ the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file
- sets. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+ algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+ fails.
- * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
- * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds
- up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
+ - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+ require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
- * Got rid of support for protocol versions 17 and 18 (which are
- both over 6 years old). (Wayne Davison)
+ - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+ the exit status properly and generate a better error.
- * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
-
- * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
-
- * Less memory used for holding --checksum data.
-
- * Less memory used per-file in the file list.
-
- * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
- (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and
- the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the
- "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from
- the receiver don't get lost on their way to through generator over
- to the sender. (Wayne Davison)
-
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7:
+ - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
+ --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
- change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
-
- * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
- Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
- files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+ that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+ files).
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
- * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
- per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
- provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
- algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
- checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
+ to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
+ of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
- * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
- sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
- file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
+ - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
- * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
- This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
- matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
- cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
- what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
-
- - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
- For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
- [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
- "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
- versions.]
-
- - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
- does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
-
- - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
- the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
- just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
- to get the old behavior in all versions.]
-
- - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
- against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
- there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
- would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
- "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
- old behavior in all versions.]
-
- * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
- properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
- user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
+ - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
+ possible).
- * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
- block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
- Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
- (Craig Barratt)
+ - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
+ --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
- * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
- mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
- counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
- file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
+ and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
+ per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
+ transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
+ that are set with information about the transfer.)
- * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
- multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
+ unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
+ "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
+ file ownership that is implied by -a.
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
+ - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
+ to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
+ which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
+ now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
- * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
- when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
+ - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
+ without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure
+ that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
- * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
+ - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
+ better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
+ file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
+ - Some minor documentation improvements.
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
+ - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
- * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
- 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
- backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
-
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
-
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
+ INTERNAL:
- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
- INTERNAL:
+ - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+ the VA_COPY macro.
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
+ recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
+ configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
+ the newly patched feature.
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)