-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
OUTPUT CHANGES:
- - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
- it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
- sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+ - 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.) When some level of human-readable output is
+ enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output
+ is increased.
+
+ - 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 (new 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 broken down by type.
- - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
- sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
- being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
-
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).
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
- It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
- that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+ - 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.
- - 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(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
- the sender, and the file-list is large.
+ - 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.
- - 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.
+ - 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.
- - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+ - 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.
- - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+ - 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).
- - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
- that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
- referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
- user and group of a symlink.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
- rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+ - 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).
- - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a
- relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
- file that was put into the partial-dir.
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
+ - 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.
- - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
- server sender.
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
- client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
- compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
- if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have
- exited with an error for large files).
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
- being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error
- about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
- specified).
+ - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
+ sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - 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.
+
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
+
+ - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
+
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
+
+ - Added some Solaris xattr code.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
- use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
-
- - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
- from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
- transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
- default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
- --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
- an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
- really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The
- default behavior is also explicitly selectable via --delete-before.
-
- - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it includes copies of identical files.
-
- - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
- --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
- patches dir and enhanced.)
-
- - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
-
- - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
- so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
- start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
-
- - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
- to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
- that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
-
- - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.) Also added "address".
-
- - 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.
-
- - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
-
- - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
- without recursion.
-
- - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
- put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
- option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
- non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a
- modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified
- manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over
- a remote-shell connection.
-
- - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
- modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
- option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
- the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in
- an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer.
-
- - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
- rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
- that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
- filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
- This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
- include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
-
- - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
- a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
- --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
- makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
-
- - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
- reduced.
-
- - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
- setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
-
- SUPPORT FILES:
-
- - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
- files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
- once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
- --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
-
- - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
- translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
- points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
- relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
-
- - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
- all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
- corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
- receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
-
- - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
- perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
- can be run by an ssh invocation.
-
- - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
+ - 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:
- - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
- the socket.
+ - 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).
- - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so
- that it is easier to maintain.
+ - 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.
- - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
- consistency and proper size.
+ - 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).
- - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
- - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
- find a variable with at least 32 bits.
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
- - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
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