Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
+
+ - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
+ term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
+ you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
+ would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
+ indicator that the verbose output is over.
+
+ - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
+ "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
+ - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
+ with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
+ filename from causing an empty line to be output).
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ checksums.
+
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
- no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
- specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
- work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
- don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
+ data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
+ file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
+ retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
+ (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
+ older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
+ older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
+ error.)
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
+ is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
+ overwrite the original file in the backup area).
- Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+ - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
+ phase.
+
- When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
+ for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
+ "vanished".
+
+ - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
+ the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
+ option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
+
+ - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
+ refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
+ to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
+ the message).
+
+ - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
+ the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
+ be daemon-only).
+
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
+ - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
+ implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
+ that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
+ implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
+ suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
+ help).
+
+ - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+ messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
+ die with a socket-write error).
+
+ - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+ hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+ that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
+ rename() behavior).
+
+ - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+ the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+
+ - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
+ can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
+ This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
+ AIX and HP-UX.
+
+ - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+ (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+
+ - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
+ exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
+ sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+ - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+ (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+ writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+
+ - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
+ onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+ as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+
+ - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+ file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
+ in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+ are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
+ Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+
+ - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
and documented all these options in the man page.
- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
+ fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
+ sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
+ systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
+ to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
+ file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
+ stdin over a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
+ same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
+ presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
+ authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
+ if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
+ error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
+ names.
+
+ - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
+ option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
+
+ - The finished file now gets its permissions and modified-time updated
+ before it gets moved into place.
+
+ - Lots of documentation improvements in the exclude/include sections.
+
INTERNAL:
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
and made the code easier to maintain.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
+ lot of args.
+
+ - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
+ with strerror() as an arg.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
+ IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
+ handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
+ them).
+
+ - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
+ crawl if the block size got too large).
+
+ - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+
+ - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
+ makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
+ being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
+ sides when sending the file-list).
+
+ - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
+ arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
+ functionality into the latter.
BUILD CHANGES:
including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated).
+ proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
+ updated).
+
+ - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
+ target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
+ have $STRIP set in the environment.
+
+ - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
+ new tests added.
+
+ - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
+ ones were removed.
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff