- - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
- fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
- sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
- systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
- to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
- file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
- stdin over a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
- same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
-
- - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
- presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
- authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
- if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
- error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
- names.
-
- - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
- option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
-
- - The finished file now gets its permissions and modified-time updated
- before it gets moved into place.
-
- - Lots of documentation improvements in the exclude/include sections.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
- lot of args.
-
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
- with strerror() as an arg.
-
- - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
- IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
- handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
- them).
-
- - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
- crawl if the block size got too large).
-
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
-
- - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
- makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
- being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
- sides when sending the file-list).
-
- - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
- arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
- functionality into the latter.
-
- 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 time-stamp used to always be
- updated).
-
- - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
- target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.