-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*-
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+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.
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - 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.
- NEW FEATURES
+ - 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.
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - 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.
- * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
- sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
- Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
- including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
- includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
- Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
- portability project, and OpenBSD.
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - 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.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
+ as a "directory", not a "file".
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - 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.
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+ generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- file to get cleaned out by another process.
+ - 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.
- * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
+ - 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.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+ sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
+ trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
+ handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
+ --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
+ slash.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+
+ - 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.)
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.)
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
+ to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
+
+ - 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).
+
+ 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.
+
+ - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
+ someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
+
+ BUILD CHANGES:
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+
+ - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+ refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
-
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
-
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
-
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
-
- * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
- overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
- ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
-
- PLATFORMS:
-
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
-
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
-
- * Platforms thought to work in this release:
-
- Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
- Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
- Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
- FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
- FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
- FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
- HP-UX 10.10 gcc
- HP-UX 11.11 cc
- IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
- IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
- Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
- NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
- NetBSD Current i386 cc
- OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
- OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
- OpenBSD Current i386 cc
- RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
- RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
- RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
- RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
- Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
- Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
- Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
- Solaris 8 i386 gcc
- SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
- SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
-
- TESTING:
-
- * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
- test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
- build farm.
+ - Added a couple new diffs to the patches dir.