-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - 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).
-
- - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
- that already exists in the --backup-dir.
-
- - 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().
-
- - 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.
-
- - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
-
- - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure.
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - 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 for a
- user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
- could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
-
- - 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.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
- - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
-
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
-
- SECURITY FIXES:
-
- - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
- rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
- transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
- file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
- disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
- rsync under is anything above "nobody".
-
- 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).
-
- - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
- options are specified is now the same both with and without the
- --backup-dir option.
+ - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
+ clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
+ characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
+ files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
- - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this
+ error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting
+ it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors).
- - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- 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 device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+ permissions without recreating the file.
- - 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.)
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
- - 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).
+ - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
+ permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
+ the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
- - 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.
+ - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+ algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
+ - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+ fails.
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
- - 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".
+ - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+ require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
- - 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.
+ - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+ the exit status properly and generate a better error.
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
- (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
- wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
+ - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
+ --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
- - Most transfer 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 and are not affected by this).
+ - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
+ that have a path component containing a slash.
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
+ - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
+ the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
- - 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).
+ - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
+ suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
+ reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
- - 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).
+ - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
+ --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
+ to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
- - 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 (avoids a really weird rename()
- behavior).
+ - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
+ --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
- - 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.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
+ not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
+ block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
+ requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
- - 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.
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
+ are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files).
- - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
- with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
- - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
- user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
- using the "2>&1").
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to
+ allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
+ and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
- - 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
- Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
- that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
- the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
+ - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
- - 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.
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- - 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).
+ - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
- - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
+ - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
+ --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - 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
+ information about the transfer.)
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
+ implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive
+ --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
+ that is implied by -a.
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
+ be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
- - 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 on
- stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
- same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
+ - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
+ a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
+ files copied to and from the daemon.
- - 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.
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
+ sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
- - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
- option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
+ delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
- - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
- updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
- finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
- disallowed all group and world access.
+ - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
+ --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files
+ with the backup suffix are not deleted.
- - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
- (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
+ - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
+ better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+ to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+ a total of 9999.
- - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
- filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
- limit).
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
+ stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
+ dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
- INTERNAL:
+ - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
+ discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
+ easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
+ just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
+ unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
+ the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
+ client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
+ needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
- lot of args.
+ - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- user
+ activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
+ to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
+ useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
+ receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
- with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
+ options used to contact a daemon rsync.
- - 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).
+ - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
+ setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
+ --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
- - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
- crawl if the block size got too large).
+ - Some minor documentation improvements.
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+ - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
- - 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).
+ - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
+ into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
- - 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.
+ INTERNAL:
- - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
- specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
- not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
+ - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+ the VA_COPY macro.
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
- updated).
+ - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
+ recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
- - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
- target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP already set in the environment.
+ - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be
+ supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less
+ string copying.
- - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
+ - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
+ replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the
+ output going to the terminal.
- - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
- be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
+ - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - 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.
+ - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
+ configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
+ the newly patched feature.
+ - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
+ such as ~/.popt.
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