an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the
transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as
separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.)
+ Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs.
- Requesting a remote file list without specifying -r (--recursive) now
sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r
- In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output
with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made.
+ Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)".
+
+ - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a
+ symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also
+ allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has
+ the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's
+ hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details.
BUG FIXES:
+ - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon
+ config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these
+ options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir,
+ --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from.
+
+ - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation
+ on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable
+ daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't
+ taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use
+ it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id-
+ translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter
+ for full details.
+
+ - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the
+ rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the
+ --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option
+ was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated
+ source file.
+
- Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
- Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at
the end of the run about a partial transfer.
+ - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more
+ options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls,
+ --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify.
+
+ - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now work properly (older
+ versions would update some files while writing the batch).
+
+ - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken
+ symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks are used (the code
+ already handled this for --copy-links).
+
+ - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
- Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old,
- acl-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
+ ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
dir.
- Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
- 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.
It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server.
- There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
+ There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter 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
"--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an
explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
+ - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character-
+ set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module.
+
- Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of
file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
-
+
- The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include:
*.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg
The matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly.
that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g.
-f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
+ - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g.
+ --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory
+ that does not exist.
+
- If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about
it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not
that important).
compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
+ - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a
+ connection timeout for rsync daemon access.
+
- Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
- Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
+ - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing
+ through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files.
+
- Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
- Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
- Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
omitted the --server option.
+ - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than
+ the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new
+ categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing
+ an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be
+ transferred.
+
- Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
- Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
- Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+ - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS
+ (though the old CVS repository still exists). Several maintenance
+ scripts were updated to work with git.
+
+ - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The
+ autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the
+ normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all
+ generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the
+ "magic" configure script that now comes with rsync for its location).
+
+ - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the
+ rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff).
+
+ - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a
+ complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible.
+
- When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub-
directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows
someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is
interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which
does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be
incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development).
+
+ - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change
+ in the 3.0.0 release.
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