-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.4:
- 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.
-
- - 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).
-
- - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
- It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
-
- - 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(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
-
- - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
- the sender, and the file-list is large.
-
- - 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.
+ - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
+ not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
+ rsyncd.conf file.
- - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
- that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+ - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
+ basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
+ is in effect.
- - 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.
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- - 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.
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- - 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.
+ - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
+ processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
+ newline.
- - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
-
- - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
- server sender.
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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).
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+ to it as a "file".
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - 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 --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
+ of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
+ actual updating of the destination.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
+ characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
+ using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
- - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
- the socket.
+ - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
+ some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
+ password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
- - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so
- that it is easier to maintain.
+ - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
+ it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
+ really did expect the socket to close).
- - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
- consistency and proper size.
+ INTERNAL:
- - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
- - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
- find a variable with at least 32 bits.
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
- - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+ - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+ refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
- - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
+ - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
+ the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
+ presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
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