-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
+
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.6:
the exit status properly and generate a better error.
- Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
- --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+ --link-dest, or --compare-dest. Also improved how the verbose output
+ handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
+ "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest).
- Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
that have a path component containing a slash.
--dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
+ - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was
+ also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning
+ about being unable to create the missing directory.
+
+ - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the
+ destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or
+ device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no
+ longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied
+ directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative).
+
- Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
--delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
- Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this
when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error).
+ - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it
+ was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a
+ user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing
+ daemon-rsync connection.
+
+ - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer
+ forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave
+ it set.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong
+ checksum for the current file offset.
+
+ - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non-
+ directory destination arg.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
- The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
- - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
- --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
-
- 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. (See
- the manpage for a list of the environment variables that are set with
+ the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
information about the transfer.)
- When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
not desired.
- - The daemon now logs each module-list request it receives.
+ - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
+ that it receives.
- New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
(permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
- The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
- - Various documentation improvements, including the documenting of what
- the various items in the --stats output mean.
+ - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
+ removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
+ clump up all the removals at the end).
+
+ - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
+ PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator
+ can get the child-exit status from the receiver.
+
+ - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
+ sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
+
+ - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
+ and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
+ the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
- - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+ - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
+
+ - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
+ improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
+ --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
+ --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
+ discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
+ matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
+ documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
+
+ - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
+ xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
INTERNAL:
- Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+ - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make
+ it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
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