-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+ is in effect.
- - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would make rsync think that the file's
+ read-position was left after the failed read's data.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+ init).
- - 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 gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
- is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
- original file in the process).
-
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
-
- - 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".
-
- - 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 instead of just dying with a write error
- trying to send data over the socket.
-
- - 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
- int64 is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - 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 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 to the daemon's config file.
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+ that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
- - 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 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. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
- seed for all batch processing has been removed.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - 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). Also cap the block size.
-
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
-
- - Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
- each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
- the verbose output via script more dependable).
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- 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 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.
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
-
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff