clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+ - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
+ now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
+ your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
+ for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
+ "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
+ digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
+ (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
+ escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
+ (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
+ the --8-bit (-8) option, mentioned below.
+
+ Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
+ so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
+ suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
+ old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
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).
- - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ - Added the --8-bit (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping high-
+ bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
+
+ - The new options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
--stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
+ the previous -p0. Also, the version included in the release tar now
+ affect generated files (e.g. configure, rsync.1, proto.h, etc.), so
+ it is no longer necessary to run autoconf and/or yodl unless you're
+ applying a patch that was checked out from CVS.
+
- 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.
- - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
- such as ~/.popt.
+ - There is a new script, "prepare-source" than can be used to update the
+ various generated files (proto.h, configure, etc.) even before configure
+ has created the Makefile (this is mainly useful when patching the source
+ with a patch that doesn't affect generated files).
+
+ - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affected by a file such
+ as ~/.popt.
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