OUTPUT CHANGES:
- The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
- clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
- characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+ clumping them together with the 'D' for devices.
- The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
- Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
- - The new options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
- --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
+ - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
+ --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
+ the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
(permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
+ - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
+
- Some minor documentation improvements.
- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.