Refer to the rsync daemon as a "daemon", not a "server". This is

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2,12 +2,32 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.4:
 
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.4:
 

+  OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+    - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+      escaped characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is
+      output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+      is now output as "\\".  Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+      should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
+      appropriate).
+
+    - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+      output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+      status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+      this under the same conditions when pushing files).  This was changed
+      to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we
+      now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+      exit with the appropriate exit status.
+

   BUG FIXES:
 
     - 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.
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
     - 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.
 

+    - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+      that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
+

     - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
       permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
 
     - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
       permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
 


@@ -28,15 +48,36 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
     - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
       to it as a "file".
 
     - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
       to it as a "file".
 

+    - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+      generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+      the file by the destination filename.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+      generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+      to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+      of the cluster.
+
+    - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
+      no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
+      receiving side.
+
+    - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+      sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+

   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
       of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - 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.
+      actual updating of the destination.  This allows you to divert all
+      the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+      are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).

 
 

-    - 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 "\\".
+    - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+      (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+      periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+      can get started on the files sooner rather than later.

 
     - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
       some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
 
     - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
       some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,


@@ -46,6 +87,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 

+    - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
+      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+

   INTERNAL:
 
     - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").