-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+ sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
- NEW FEATURES
+ - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+ was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+ file).
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+ mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
- * 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 potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
- * Merged IPv6 patch from KAME.net. This is off by default, but
- can be enabled with ./configure --enable-ipv6.
+ - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+ FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+ necessary.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
- * 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 generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
- * 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.
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+ backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+ --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+ patches dir and enhanced.)
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
+
+ - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
+ start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+ cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+
+ - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
+ to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
+ that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+ - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+ file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+ partial file.
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+ put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+ option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+ non-recursive listing).
- * 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 the --omit-dir-times option which will avoid updating the
+ modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
+ really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
+ the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
+ times.
- PLATFORMS:
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest.
- * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+ INTERNAL:
- * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
- scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
+ - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ the socket.
- TESTING:
+ - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
- * 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.
+ BUILD CHANGES:
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().