- - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
- 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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, and the documenting of what the various items in
- the --stats output mean.
-
- - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
- xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.