-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:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
-
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
-
- NEW FEATURES
-
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - 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.
- * 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 a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+ that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash.
- * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
- including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - 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.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - 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.
- * 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.
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+ to it as a "file".
- * 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 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.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+ generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - 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.
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - 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.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- BUG FIXES:
+ - 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).
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+ - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
+ characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
+ using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - 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.)
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - 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).
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+ back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
+ silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
- * 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.)
+ INTERNAL:
- PLATFORMS:
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- TESTING:
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
- * 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.
+ - 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.
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