-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- files during the delete scan!
+ - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
+ it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
- - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
+ - 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.
- - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
- permissions without recreating the file.
+ - 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.
- - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
- we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
- hostspec as a filename.
+ - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
+ filter rules.
- - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
- permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
- the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
+ - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
+ would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
- - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
- algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
+ - 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.
- - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
- fails.
+ - 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.
- - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
-
- - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
- require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
-
- - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
- the exit status properly and generate a better error.
+ - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
+ directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
-
- - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
- transfer.
-
- - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
- rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
-
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
- to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
- of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
-
- - The options --human-readable (-m) and --si change the output of the
- --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
-
- - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
- preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+ - 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).
- - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
- and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
- per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer.
-
- - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
- the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
- should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
- rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
- replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
- dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
-
- - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
- unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
- "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
- file ownership that is implied by -a.
-
- - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
- to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
-
- - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
- which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+ INTERNAL:
- - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
- now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+ - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
- - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
- better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
- file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
+ - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
- - Some minor documentation improvements.
+ - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
+ easier without forcing variables via casts.
- - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+ - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
+ string-handling functions.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
- - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+ - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
+ compiler warning.
- - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
- with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+ - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
- - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
- the VA_COPY macro.
+ - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
+ omitted the --server option.
- - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
- recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
- configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
- the newly patched feature.
-
+ - 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).