-NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
-Changes since 3.0.0:
-
- NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
-
- - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
- itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
- and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
- between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
- revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a
- new device number, etc.).
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
+ "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
+ --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
+ or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
+ unchanged by default.)
+
+ - The --list-only option is now affected by the --human-readable setting.
+ It will display digit groupings by default, and unit suffixes if higher
+ levels of readability are requested. Also, the column width for the size
+ output has increased from 11 to 14 characters when human readability is
+ enabled. Use --no-h to get the old-style output and column size.
+
+ - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
+ shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
+ both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
+ size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
+ incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
+ instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
+ letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
+ be increasing as new files are found.
+
+ - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (a new line
+ for protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
+ follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
+ list that shows the counts by type. The wording of the transferred count
+ has also changed so that it is clearer that it is only a count of regular
+ files.
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
- run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
-
- - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
- not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
-
- - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted:
- a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure.
+ - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
+ help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
+ abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
+ closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
- - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
- CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
- of rounding.h fails.
-
- - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
- that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
- the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
- protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
- file) was already working.
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
- can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing,
- --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set.
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right
- modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
+ - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
+ debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
+ protocol.
- - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the
- exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as
- if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the
- user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages
- for these non-user-initiated rules.
+ - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
+ either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
+ missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
+ generates an error).
- - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
- handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
- - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
- longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
- date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
- ownership, xattrs, etc.).
+ - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
+ config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
+ specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
+ daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
+ values, even when not run by a super-user.
- - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
- because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled,
- it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could
- make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path.
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
- wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
+ - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
+ sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
- - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs.
+ - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the
+ upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic.
- - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
- rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
- - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to
- ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than
- having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually).
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
- - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
- listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
- --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
+ - Added some Solaris xattr code.
- - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
+ EXTRAS:
- - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
- parameters.
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
INTERNAL:
- - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
- sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
+ - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
+ over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
+ changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
- - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
- normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
- not have caused problems, though.)
+ - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
+ files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
+ parallel manner.
- - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
- "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory
- churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
- args.
+ - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
+ so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
- - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
- unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
- the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
- included popt code should be used or not.
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command
- outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made
- the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should
- expect hard-linked symlinks or not.
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
- - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the
- rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
- - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
- structure.
+ - Changed configure.in to configure.ac.
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