NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
Changes since 2.6.3:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+ sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp().
+ mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+
+ - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
- We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
- Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure.
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
+
+ - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+ backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
+
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+ --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+ patches dir and enhanced.)
+
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
- so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a
- user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
- could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
+ start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+ cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
+
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+
+ - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
+
+ - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+ put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+ option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+ non-recursive listing).
+
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ the socket.
+
+ - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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