-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ BUG FIXES:
- * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
- Zimmerman)
+ - 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).
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
- L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would make rsync think that the file's
+ read-position was left after the failed read's data.
- * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+ - 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).
+
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- * When -e is specified along with an rsyncd url, the client should
- get a warning but it should not be treated as an error. (Bill
- Nottingham)
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62489
+ - 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.
- INTERNAL:
+ - 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.
- * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
- Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
- (Jos Backus)
+ - 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).
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