-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.7:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
- wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
- is in effect.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
- receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
- never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
- the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
-
- - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
- that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
- beyond the failed read's data.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
- in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
- init).
+ - 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.
- - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
- instead of silently ignoring the option.
+ - 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 a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
- fifos) from being linked.
+ - 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.)
- - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
- configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
- creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - 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), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and
+ deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type.
- - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
- error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
- message.
+ - 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).
- - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
+ EXTRAS:
- - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
- that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
- attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
- taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
+ - 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.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable
- io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also
- elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message.
-
- - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
- compatibility functions.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
- - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
- buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
- - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
- a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
- actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
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