-NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.9:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.5:
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.
+ - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was
+ created from an incremental-recursion transfer.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
+ multiple connections.
- - 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.
+ - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
+ have consecutive slashes in the value.
- - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
- filter rules.
+ - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
- - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
- would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
+ - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
+ avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
- - 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.
+ - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the
+ receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-
+ specified files generates an error).
- - 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.
+ - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
+ an I/O during the sending of the file list.
- - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
- directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+ - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
+ start of the short options.
- - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
- when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+ - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
+ 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
+ receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
+ the transfer.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
+ rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
- - 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.)
+ - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
- - 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.)
+ - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
- - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override of the default list of
- file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
+ - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
+ the --disable-iconv-open configure option.
- - 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.*
+ - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or
+ the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch.
- - 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).
-
- - A lot more --no-OPTION override options are now supported.
-
- 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.
-
- - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
- easier without forcing variables via casts.
-
- - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
- string-handling functions.
-
- - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
-
- - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
- compiler warning.
-
- - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
-
- - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
- omitted the --server option.
-
- - 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.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
-
- - 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).
+ - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux.