-NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 27 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.0:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over
- the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details).
-
- * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
- "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
- (Bardur Arantsson)
-
- * The --progress output now mentions how far along in the
- transfer we are, including both a count of files transferred
- and a percentage of the total file-count that we're processed.
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
BUG FIXES:
- * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user
- when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -u was
- specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on
- the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might
- cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to
- get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Keep per-file track of the sending of literal data with
- --partial so that an interrupted transfer doesn't keep a
- shorter temp file when no new data has been transfered over
- the wire. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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 "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
-
- * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
- directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
- directory (and not all following directories too).
-
- * When transferring a file that has group 0 with -g specified
- (typically via -a) and not enough privs to retain the group,
- rsync no longer complains about chown failing.
-
- * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER
- part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@'
- is used to find the HOST, not the first).
-
- INTERNAL:
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file
- sets. (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
- (J.W. Schultz)
+ - 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.
- * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds
- up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
+ - 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).
- * Got rid of support for protocol versions 17 and 18 (which are
- both over 6 years old). (Wayne Davison)
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- * Less memory used for holding --checksum data.
+ - 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).
- * Less memory used per-file in the file list.
+ - 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.).
- * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
- (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe
- and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to
- have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing
- messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through
- the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected
- hard-link messages). (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * The reading & writing of the file list in batch-mode is now
- handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over
- the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain.
+ - 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).
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7:
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
- change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
-
- * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
- Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
- files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
- per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
- provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
- algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
- checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
-
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
-
- * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
- sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
- file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
-
- * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
- This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
- matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
- cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
- what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
-
- - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
- For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
- [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
- "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
- versions.]
+ - 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.
- - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
- does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
- the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
- just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
- to get the old behavior in all versions.]
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
- - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
- against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
- there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
- would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
- "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
- old behavior in all versions.]
-
- * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
- properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
- user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
- block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
- Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
- (Craig Barratt)
-
- * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
- mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
- counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
- file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
-
- * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
- multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
-
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
-
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
-
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
-
- * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
- when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
-
- * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
-
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
-
- * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
- 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
- backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
-
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
-
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+ INTERNAL:
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
+ - 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).
- INTERNAL:
+ - 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.)
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.
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