-NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.9:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
+ "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
+ --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
+ or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
+ unchanged by default.)
+
+ - The --list-only option is now affected by the --human-readable setting.
+ It will display digit groupings by default, and unit suffixes if higher
+ levels of readability are requested. Also, the column width for the size
+ output has increased from 11 to 14 characters when human readability is
+ enabled. Use --no-h to get the old-style output and column size.
+
+ - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
+ shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
+ both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
+ size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
+ incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
+ instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
+ letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
+ be increasing as new files are found.
+
+ - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (a new line
+ for protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
+ follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
+ list that shows the counts by type. The wording of the transferred count
+ has also changed so that it is clearer that it is only a count of regular
+ files.
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
- it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
- option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
- matching items.
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a
- signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being
- able to get the exit status from the script.
+ - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
+ help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
+ abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
+ closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
- - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
- filter rules.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
- would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
- files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the
- copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats.
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains
- and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this
- option to control a remote shell's password prompt.
+ - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
+ debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
+ protocol.
- - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
- directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+ - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
+ either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
+ missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
+ generates an error).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
- to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly
- (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory.
- See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
-
- - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a
- 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is
- the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with
- the new incremental recursion mode.
-
- - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete
- files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass.
-
- - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
- an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
- acls.diff patch that will add that.)
-
- - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
- an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
- xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
-
- - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve
- all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom.
- There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
-
- - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
- one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make
- this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If
- compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild. If
- you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can
- specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the
- --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, --enable-iconv=. is a
- good choice. See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv
- option's settings.
-
- - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
- side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
- older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
- an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
- or it will be silently ignored.*
-
- - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
- receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a
- hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the
- receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data
- sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more
- data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information
- to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving
- side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
- the device+inode information on both sides).
-
- - A lot more --no-OPTION override options are now supported.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
+
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
+
+ - Added a forward-DNS lookup for the daemon's hosts allow/deny config. Can
+ be disabled via "forward lookup" parameter (defaults to enabled).
+
+ - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
+ config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
+ specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
+ daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
+ values, even when not run by a super-user.
+
+ - Added per-user authorization options and group-authorization support to
+ the daemon's "auth users" parameter.
+
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same-
- named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows
- rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one
- that will be included in the copy. The new sort was also faster
- than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort() in my testing.
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
+ - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
+ sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
- - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
+ - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the
+ upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic.
- - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
- easier without forcing variables via casts.
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
+
+ - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
+
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
+
+ - Added some Solaris xattr code.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
+
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
+
+ INTERNAL:
- - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
- string-handling functions.
+ - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
+ over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
+ changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
- - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
+ - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
+ files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
+ parallel manner.
- - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
- compiler warning.
+ - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
+ so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
- - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
- - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
- omitted the --server option.
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
- sections of a pool's memory.
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
- - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
- development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version
- info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking
- in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made
- to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).
+ - Changed configure.in to configure.ac.
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