-rsync 2.5.1 (2002-01-03)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.2:
- 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)
+ - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
+ multiple source directories were specified.
- * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
+ over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
- * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
+ - 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.
- * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
+ - 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.)
- * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
- Welbourne)
+ - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+ (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
- * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
+ - 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.
+
+ - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
+ the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
+ batch-processing options.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * --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)
+ - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory
+ onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+ as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+
+ - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+
+ - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
+ and documented all these options in the man page.
+
+ - 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 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.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
+ and made the code easier to maintain.
+
+ - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
+ rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+
+ 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 timestamp used to be updated).
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+
+ - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir (and some accepted
+ ones were removed as well).
- * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
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