-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
+ it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
- NEW FEATURES
+ - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
+ option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
+ matching items.
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a
+ signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being
+ able to get the exit status from the script.
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
+ filter rules.
- * 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 problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
+ would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
- * Merged IPv6 patch from KAME.net. This is off by default, but
- can be enabled with ./configure --enable-ipv6.
+ - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
+ files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the
+ copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains
+ and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this
+ option to control a remote shell's password prompt.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
+ directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
+ to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly
+ (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory.
+ See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
- * 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.
+ - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a
+ 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is
+ the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with
+ the new incremental recursion mode.
- * 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.
+ - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete
+ files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
+ to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+ acls.diff patch that will add that.)
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
+ to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+ xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve
+ all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom.
+ There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
+ one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make
+ this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If
+ compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild. If
+ you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can
+ specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the
+ --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, --enable-iconv=. is a
+ good choice. See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv
+ option's settings.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
+ side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
+ older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
+ an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
+ or it will be silently ignored.*
+
+ - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
+ receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a
+ hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the
+ receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data
+ sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more
+ data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information
+ to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving
+ side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
+ the device+inode information on both sides).
+
+ INTERNAL:
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+ - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
+ easier without forcing variables via casts.
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
+ string-handling functions.
- * 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.)
+ - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
- PLATFORMS:
+ - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
+ compiler warning.
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
+ omitted the --server option.
- TESTING:
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
- * 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.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
+ development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version
+ info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking
+ in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made
+ to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).