-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.8
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since version 2.5.7:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
- Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
- --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length).
- The per-file checksum size is determined according
- to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which
- reduces the probability of rsync algorithm
- corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
- checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
-
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
- This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
- matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
- cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
- what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
-
- - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
- For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
-
- - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo).
-
- - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
- the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
- just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does.
-
- - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
- against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
- there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
- would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
- "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance).
-
- * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
- properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
- user's file args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
+ - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
+ once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
- block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
- Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
- (Craig Barratt)
-
- * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
- mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
- counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
- file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
+ --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
+ the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
+ these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
+ (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
+ incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+ how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
- * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
- multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+ directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+ generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+ also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+ the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+ process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+ receiving files.)
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
+ - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
+ relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
+ gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
+ - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
+ destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
+ when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
+ - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
+ trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
+ - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
+ will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
+ even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
+ - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+ chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+ from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+ over and over again).
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+ it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+ to successfully update a destination file.
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
+ merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
+ only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
+ done for global include/excludes).
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
+ the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
+ the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
+ permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
+ problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
+ will not update a file that has no write permissions).
- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+ - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
+ are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
- INTERNAL:
-
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
-
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7:
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.6:
-
- SECURITY:
-
- * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
- Russell, Andrea Barisani)
-
-
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.5:
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
+ directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
- Zimmerman)
-
- * 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)
-
- * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
- destination field.
-
- * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
- rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
- unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
- (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
- rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
-
- * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
- Middleton)
-
- * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
-
- * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
- terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
- (Dave Dykstra)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
-
- * 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)
-
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
-
- * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
-
- * 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)
-
- * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
- dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * 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)
-
- * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
- broken. (Dave Dykstra)
-
- * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
- (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
-
- * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
- when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
+ can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
+ They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
+ page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
+ settings when starting a daemon.
- * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
+ - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
+ it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
+ alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
- INTERNAL:
+ - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
+ the daemon's config file.
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
+ deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
+ non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
+ up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
+ was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
+ a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
+ (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
+ still behaves in the same way as before.)
- * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
+ - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
+ the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
+ both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
+ command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
+ - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+ make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
- * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
- means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.
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