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@@ -2,24 +2,43 @@ NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 30 (changed)
 Changes since 2.6.9:
 
 Protocol: 30 (changed)
 Changes since 2.6.9:
 

+  NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
+
+    - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to
+      send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink).
+      This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most
+      people.  If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having
+      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.)
+
+    - Requesting a remote file list without specifying -r (--recursive) now
+      sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r
+      along with an extra exclude of /*/*.  If the remote rsync does not
+      understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to
+      either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify  -r --exclude='/*/*'  manually.
+
+    - 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.
+

   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.
 
     - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
   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.
 
     - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest

-      option.  Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
+      option.  Prior versions would output too many creation events for

       matching items.
 
     - 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.
 
       matching items.
 
     - 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.
 

-    - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
-      filter rules.
+    - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the
+      negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.

 
 

-    - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option:  it
-      would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
+    - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f:  it
+      no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync.

 
     - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
       files (which includes local copies).  Version 2.6.9 would complete the
 
     - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
       files (which includes local copies).  Version 2.6.9 would complete the


@@ -32,40 +51,107 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
     - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
       directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
 
     - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
       directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
 

+    - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
+      output as a creation event, not a change event.
+
+    - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
+      when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+
+    - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
+
+    - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
+      any missing backup directories are now created.
+
+    - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
+      --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
+
+    - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile
+      for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit
+      with an error.
+
+    - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
+
+    - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code
+      now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly).
+
+    - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we
+      are writing to it.  This avoids problems with some network filesystems.
+
+    - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at
+      the end of the run about a partial transfer.
+

   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - 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
+      to another 3.x 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.
 
       (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory.
       See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
 

+    - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical
+      option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file).
+

     - 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.
 
     - 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.
 

+    - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
+      having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
+      shell.  Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one
+      (e.g. empty:  :file1  or  ::module/file2).  This means that local use of
+      brace expansion now works:  rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} .
+
+    - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of
+      the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args
+      to the remote-shell command.  This protects them from space-splitting,
+      and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[).
+

     - 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
     - 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.)
+      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
+      dir.

 
     - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes.  This is
 
     - 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.)
+      an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
+      supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data).  If you
+      need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of
+      rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.

 
     - 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.
 
     - 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" option for an rsync daemon.
 

-    - 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.*
+    - 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 then
+      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 manpage for an
+      explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
+
+    - 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.
+
+    - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
+      deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped.  (Older
+      versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
+
+    - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
+      about extraneous files without deleting anything.  If you're not sure
+      what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1,
+      as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though
+      older versions don't warn).

 
     - 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
 
     - 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


@@ -77,8 +163,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
       the device+inode information on both sides).
 
       side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
       the device+inode information on both sides).
 

+    - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules
+      that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted.  e.g.
+      -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
+
+    - 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).
+
+    - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4.
+
+    - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the
+      destination file, which speeds up file appending.
+
+    - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append
+      option (verifying the existing data in the destination file).  For
+      compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
+      talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
+
+    - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
+      that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
+
+    - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
+
+    - We now support a lot more --no-OPTION override options.
+

   INTERNAL:
 
   INTERNAL:
 

+    - 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.
+

     - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
 
     - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
     - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
 
     - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.


@@ -86,6 +203,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
     - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
       easier without forcing variables via casts.
 
     - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
       easier without forcing variables via casts.
 

+    - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
+

     - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
       string-handling functions.
 
     - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
       string-handling functions.
 


@@ -101,10 +220,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
 
     - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
 
 
     - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
 

+    - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
+      sections of a pool's memory.
+
+    - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with
+      some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a
+      better license than the old code.
+

   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 

+    - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+
+    - 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
+      useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs,
+      but another file system does).
+

     - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
     - 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).
+      development of a new protocol version.  This causes any out-of-sync
+      versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner.
+      This addition makes it safe to deploy a pre-release version that may
+      interact with the public.  This new exchange of sub-version info does not
+      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).