Renamed sum_table -> hash_table.

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       the exit status properly and generate a better error.
 
     - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
-      --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+      --link-dest, or --compare-dest.  Also improved how the verbose output
+      handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
+      "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest).
 
     - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
       that have a path component containing a slash.
@@ -84,6 +86,18 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
       to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
 
+    - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was
+      also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning
+      about being unable to create the missing directory.
+
+    - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the
+      destination directory did not yet exist:  we can now create a symlink or
+      device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no
+      longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied
+      directories (see --relative) without --copy-unsafe-links.
+
     - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
       --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
 
@@ -119,13 +133,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
     - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
 
-    - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
-      --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
-
     - 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.  (See
-      the manpage for a list of the environment variables that are set with
+      the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
       information about the transfer.)
 
     - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
@@ -205,16 +216,49 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
       not desired.
 
-    - The daemon now logs each module-list request it receives.
+    - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
+      that it receives.
 
     - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
       (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
 
     - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
 
-    - Some minor documentation improvements.
-
-    - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+    - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
+      removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
+      clump up all the removals at the end).
+
+    - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
+      PID-remembering version after forking to handle the request.  This
+      ensures that the generator can get the child-exit status from the
+      receiver.
+
+    - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
+      sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
+
+    - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
+      and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
+      the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
+
+    - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
+
+    - The sender's hash table for checksum information was improved to make it
+      more efficient when updating really large files (starting from around
+      2.5GB, but most visibly for much larger files).  This prevents the hash
+      table from getting overloaded, which saves CPU time (and real time) at
+      the expense of a little extra memory (and it actually saves memory for
+      normal sized files).
+
+    - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
+      improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
+      --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
+      --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
+      discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
+      matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
+      documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
+
+    - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
+      xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
 
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