-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.4:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
- - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
- escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
- output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
- is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
- should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
- appropriate).
-
- - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
- output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
- status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
- this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
- to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we
- now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
- exit with the appropriate exit status.
+Changes since 2.6.5:
BUG FIXES:
- - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
- not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
- rsyncd.conf file.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
- that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
-
- - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
- permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
-
- - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
- basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
- is in effect.
-
- - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
- processing.
-
- - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
- addition to its use in daemon mode).
-
- - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
- processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
- newline.
-
- - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
- to it as a "file".
-
- - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
- generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
- the file by the destination filename.
-
- - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
- generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
-
- - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
- to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
- of the cluster.
-
- - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
- no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
- receiving side.
-
- - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
- sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+ - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
+ without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as thought
+ it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
+ file); with -i it would could output all trailing dots for an unchanged
+ hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
+ unchanged files).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
- of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
- actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
- the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
- are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
-
- - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
- (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
- periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
- can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
-
- - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
- some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
- password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
-
- - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
- it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
- really did expect the socket to close).
-
- - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
- back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
- silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
+ - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
+ per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
BUILD CHANGES:
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
-
- - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
-
- - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
- refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+ - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
+ NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
+ find in the /etc/group file).
- - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
- the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
- presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+ - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
+ -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
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