-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.4:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
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.
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
+ "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
+ --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
+ or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
+ unchanged by default.) When some level of human-readable output is
+ enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output
+ is increased.
+
+ - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
+ shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
+ both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
+ size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
+ incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
+ instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
+ letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
+ be increasing as new files are found.
+
+ - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for
+ protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
+ follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
+ list broken down by type.
BUG FIXES:
- - 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 transfer of a single file when -H is specified
- that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
-
- - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
- permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
-
- - 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 the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
- processing.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
- addition to its use in daemon mode).
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - 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.
+ - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
+ help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
+ abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
+ closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
- - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
- as a "directory", not a "file".
-
- - 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.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
- generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- - 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.
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- - 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.
+ - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
+ debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
+ protocol.
- - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
- sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+ - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
+ either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
+ missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
+ generates an error).
- - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
- trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
- handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
- --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
- slash.
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
- - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - 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.)
+ - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
+ config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
+ specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
+ daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
+ values, even when not run by a super-user.
- - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
- specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
- destination).
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - 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.
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
- "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
+ - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
+ sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the
+ upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic.
- - 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).
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
- - 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.
+ - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
- - 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.)
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
- - 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).
+ - Added some Solaris xattr code.
- - 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 failure (since a
- daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
- necessary to see the error on stderr).
+ EXTRAS:
- - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
- to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- - 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).
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
INTERNAL:
- - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
- discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
-
- - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
+ - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
+ over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
+ changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
- - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
- someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
+ - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
+ files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
+ parallel manner.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
+ so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
- - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
- refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- - 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.
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
- - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
- enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
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