-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 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+ escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
+ output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+ is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+ can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
+
+ - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
+ output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+ status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+ this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
+ to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we
+ now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+ exit with the appropriate exit status.
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)
+ - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
+ not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
+ rsyncd.conf file.
- * 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)
+ - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+ (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
+ write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
+ only caused an annoying warning message).
- * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
+ basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
+ is in effect.
- * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
+ processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
+ newline.
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file
- sets. (Wayne Davison)
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
+ as a "directory", not a "file".
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+ generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+ the file by the destination filename.
- * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+ generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
- * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds
- up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+ to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+ of the cluster.
- * Got rid of support for protocol versions 17 and 18 (which are
- both over 6 years old). (Wayne Davison)
+ - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
+ no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
+ receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
+ the mount-point dir.
- * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
+ - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+ sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
- * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
+ - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
+ trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
- * Less memory used for holding --checksum data.
+ - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
+ handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
- * Less memory used per-file in the file list.
+ - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
+ --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
+ slash.
- * 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)
+ - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
+ re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
+ (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
+ trailing slash.
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7:
+ - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
+ the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
+ messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
- * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
- change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
+ - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
+ "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
+ dir of the destination).
- * 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)
+ - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
+ transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
+ delete anything.
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
+ "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
- * 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)
-
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
-
- * 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.
-
- * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
-
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
+ for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
+ compatibility with OS variations).
- * 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)
-
- * 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)
-
- * 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)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * 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)
+ - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
+ of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
+ actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
+ the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+ are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+ - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+ (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+ periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+ can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
+ - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
+ sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
+ the checksum data for a large file.
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
+ - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
+ some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user,
+ password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
+ - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
+ it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
+ really did expect the socket to close).
- * 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 the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+ back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better
+ than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
+ daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
+ necessary to see the error on stderr).
- * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
+ - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
+ instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
+ non-daemon transfer).
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
+ - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
+ support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
+ when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
+ other similar options being added at some point).
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
+ INTERNAL:
- * 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).
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to
+ better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
+ messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
+ locales).
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
+ - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
+ someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * 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)
+ - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
+ setlocale() in the binary.
- * 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)
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
+ - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+ refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
+ the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
+ presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
+ (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
- * 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)
+ - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
+ that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
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