-NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.0:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over
- the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details).
-
- * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
- "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
- (Bardur Arantsson)
-
- * The --progress output now mentions how far along in the
- transfer we are, including both a count of files transferred
- and a percentage of the total file-count that we're processed.
- It was also improved to better show the current rate of
- transfer (which is used to estimate the remaining transfer
- time).
-
- * The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH
- to override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+ escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
+ output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+ is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+ should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
+ appropriate).
+
+ - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+ output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+ status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+ this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
+ to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we
+ now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+ exit with the appropriate exit status.
BUG FIXES:
- * When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links)
- or --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even
- if the referant file is on a different filesystem.
-
- * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user
- when (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o
- was specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be
- used on the destination and -g was specified.
-
- * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might
- cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to
- get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
-
- * We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start
- of each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted
- transfer with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter
- temp file than the current basis file when no new data has been
- transfered over the wire for that file.
+ - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
+ not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
+ rsyncd.conf file.
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
+ - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+ that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
- * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
+ - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
+ basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
+ is in effect.
- * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
- directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
- directory (and not all following directories too).
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- * When transferring a file that has group 0 with -g specified
- (typically via -a) and not enough privs to retain the group,
- rsync no longer complains about "chown" failing.
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER
- part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@'
- is used to find the HOST, not the first).
+ - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
+ processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
+ newline.
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root
- users: (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't
- have a name for (it would previously skip changing the group
- on any files in that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used,
- rsync no longer attempts to set groups that the user doesn't
- have the permission to set.
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+ to it as a "file".
- * Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
+ - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+ generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+ the file by the destination filename.
- * Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any
- mount-point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal
- (in that it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of
- the mount-point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remaped
- mount of the original filesystem could get discovered on a
- disk we should be ignoring.
+ - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+ generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
- * Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
- when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
- that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them).
+ - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+ to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+ of the cluster.
- * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
- sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
+ - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
+ no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
+ receiving side.
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file
- sets.
+ - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+ sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
+ of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
+ actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
+ the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+ are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
- * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds
- up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
+ - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+ (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+ periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+ can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
- * The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
- group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
- prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
- hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
- earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
- receiving side.
+ - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
+ some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
+ password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
- * Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20
- (2.3.0 released 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for
- protocols less than 25 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001)
- (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, severally)
+ - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
+ it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
+ really did expect the socket to close).
- * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
+ - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+ back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
+ silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
- * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
+ INTERNAL:
- * Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
- * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use
- allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large
- filesets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
- (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe
- and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to
- have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing
- messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through
- the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected
- hard-link messages and verbose --stats output).
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
- * The reading & writing of the file list in batch-mode is now
- handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over
- the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain.
+ - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+ refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
- * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and
- a little more optimized.
+ - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
+ the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
+ presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
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