-rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
- Mackerras)
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
- (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
- Hagino)
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
- * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device
+ instead of just updating the permissions.
- * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
+ - 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.
- * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
+ - 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.
- * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
- Welbourne)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+ that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+ files).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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 would only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
+
+ INTERNAL:
- * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
- multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
- Faith)
-
- * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
- useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
- debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
- * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.