-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+
+ - 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(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+
+ - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
+
+ - 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 place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
+
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it copies identical files.
+
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+ --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+ patches dir)
+
+ - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).
+
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (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.
+
+ - 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:
+
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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