-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
-
- - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
- term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
- you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
- would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
- indicator that the verbose output is over.
-
- - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
- "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
-
- - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
- with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
- filename from causing an empty line to be output).
+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
+ can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
+
+ - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+ output a "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.