-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
- * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+ permissions without recreating the file.
- * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
- Zimmerman)
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
- specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
- server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
- as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
+ - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
+ permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
+ the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
- * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
- destination field.
+ - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+ algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
- * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
- rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+ fails.
- * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
- unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
- * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
- rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+ - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+ require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
- * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
- Middleton)
+ - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+ the exit status properly and generate a better error.
- * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Set the default value of --modify-window to 2 on Cygwin. (Lapo
- Luchini)
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+ that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+ files).
- * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
- (Dave Dykstra)
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
- * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
- in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
- timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size.
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
+ and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
+ per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
+ transfer.
- * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
- contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
- list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
- * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
- dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
+ unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
+ "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
+ file ownership that is implied by -a.
- * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
- processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
- an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
+ which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
- * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
- broken. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
+ now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
- * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
- (Sviatoslav Sviridov)
+ - Some minor documentation improvements.
- * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
- when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
INTERNAL:
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
- * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
+ - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+ the VA_COPY macro.
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
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