+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+ was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+ file).
+
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+ mkstemp().
+
+ - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+ FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+ necessary.
+
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a
+ user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
+ could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
+
+ - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+ file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+ partial file.
+
+ BUILD CHANGES:
+
+ - Support an OS that uses mkdev() instead of makedev().
+
+\f
NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
- - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
checksums.
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
+ refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
+ (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
+ wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
- - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
- the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
- be daemon-only).
+ - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
+ returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
+ intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
- When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
- that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
- rename() behavior).
+ that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
+ behavior).
- Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
- Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
(e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
+ - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
+ filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
+ limit).
+
INTERNAL:
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.
+ have $STRIP already set in the environment.
- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
+ - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
+ be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few