-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
-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
- can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
-
- - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
- output a "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.
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
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 crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- - 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 crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
- permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
+ - 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.
- - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
- basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
- is in effect.
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
- processing.
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
- addition to its use in daemon mode).
+ - 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.
- - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
- processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
- newline.
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
- as a "directory", not a "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.
- - 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 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 where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
- generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
+ - 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 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.
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- - 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 glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
- sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+ - 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).
- - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
- trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+ - 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.).
- - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
- handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+ - 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.
- - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
- --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
- slash.
+ - 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).
- - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
-
- - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
- the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
- messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
-
- - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
- specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
- destination).
-
- - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
- transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
- delete anything.
-
- - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
- "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
-
- - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
- for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST.
+ - 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:
- - 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. 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).
-
- - 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,
- password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
+ - 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.
- - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
- it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
- really did expect the socket to close).
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
- back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is
- better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
- daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
- necessary to see the error on stderr).
-
- - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
- to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
-
- - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
- support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
- when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
- other similar options being added at some point).
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
INTERNAL:
- - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
- discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
-
- - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
-
- - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
- someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+ - 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).
- - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+ - 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.)
- - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
- refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
- the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
- presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+ - 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 minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
- - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
- enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.