-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ BUG FIXES:
- * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
- otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+ is in effect.
- * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
- accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
- (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would make rsync think that the file's
+ read-position was left after the failed read's data.
- BUG FIXES:
+ - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+ init).
+
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
- slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
- current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
+ - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+ that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
- * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
- Pool.)
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
- * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
- for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
- trailing slashes.
- <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
- (Martin Pool)
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff