-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
+
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
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 without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative).
+
- Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
--delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
- Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this
when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error).
+ - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it
+ was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a
+ user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing
+ daemon-rsync connection.
+
+ - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer
+ forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave
+ it set.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong
+ checksum for the current file offset.
+
+ - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non-
+ directory destination arg.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
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").
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.
+ PID-remembering version after forking. 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.
+
- 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.
+ 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.
- Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+ - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make
+ it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff