+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
+ 29.)
+
+ - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
+
+ - 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
+ internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*"
+ for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically
+ (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon,
+ but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
+ the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
+
+ - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating
+ the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
+ option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
+ the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide
+ an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
+
+ - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
+ rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
+ that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
+ filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
+ This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
+ include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
+ versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but
+ backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.
+ (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.)
+
+ - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
+ a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
+ --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
+ makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
+
+ - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
+ reduced.
+
+ - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
+ setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
+
+ - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
+ they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a
+ non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone
+ very wrong).
+
+ - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a
+ more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect
+ is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the
+ rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too.
+
+ - Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file
+ for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm
+ only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it
+ does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file
+ was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy
+ name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it
+ needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and
+ enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
+
+ - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files
+ between systems.
+
+ - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal
+ enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6
+ literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.)
+
+ - When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open
+ one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs.
+
+ - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to
+ avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync
+ to detach.
+
+ - The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or
+ --read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see
+ what would happen without --dry-run.
+
+ - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only
+ variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the
+ read-only side can succeed.
+
+ - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
+
+ SUPPORT FILES:
+
+ - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: 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 and a parallel hierarchy of files to
+ effect its update.
+
+ - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the
+ /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will
+ exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The
+ excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly
+ anchored.
+
+ - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make
+ a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test
+ for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and
+ the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error.
+
+ - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe
+ Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only
+ certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation.