-NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.8:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
BUG FIXES:
- - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
- once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
- --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
- the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
- these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
- (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
- incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
- how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
- directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
- generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
- also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
- the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
- process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
- receiving files.)
+ - 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 a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
- update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
- notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
- instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
- relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
- gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
- destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
- when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
+ - 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.
- - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
- trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
- will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
- even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
+ - 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.
- - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
- chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
- from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
- over and over again).
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if
+ --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard-
+ linked set of files, but not all of them).
- - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
- it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
- to successfully update a destination file.
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
- merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
- only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
- done for global include/excludes).
+ - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of excluding
+ a wider range of path entries. It also sends the user an error about
+ "missing" files instead of silently ignoring them.
- - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
- the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+ - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
+ handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
- - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
- the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+ - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
- - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
- permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
- problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
- will not update a file that has no write permissions).
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
- are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
- directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
+ - 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. symlink referent, device
+ numbers).
- - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
- overly long.
+ - 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.).
- - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
- longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
- the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
- may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it
+ automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - 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).
- - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
- can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
- They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
- page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
- settings when starting a daemon.
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
- - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
- it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
- alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
- the daemon's config file.
+ - 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 the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
- deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
- non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
- up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
- was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
- a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
- (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
- still behaves in the same way as before.)
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
- from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
- - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
- the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
- both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
- command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
+ - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
+ parameters.
INTERNAL:
- - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
- changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
- calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
- an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
- values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
- functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
- could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
- that conditionally compiles the code.
+ - 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).
- - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
- top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
+ - 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.)
- - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
- The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
- was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
- any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
-
- - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
- define it.
+ - 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.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
- make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
- The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code
- that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes.
-
- - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
- maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
- without actually running as root. It does this using a special
- extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
- acls.diff).
+ - 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.
- - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
- better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
- - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+ - 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.
- - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
- consistent opening comments.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.
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