-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+Changes since 2.6.3:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+ was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+ file).
- - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+ mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
- - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
- terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+ - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
- no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
- specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
- work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
- don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+ - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+ FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+ necessary.
- - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
- is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
- original file in the process).
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
- allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
-
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
-
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
-
- - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
- for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
- "vanished".
-
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
-
- - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
- the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
- be daemon-only).
-
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
-
- - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
- implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
- that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
- implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
- suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
- help).
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
-
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
-
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
-
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+ --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+ patches dir and enhanced.)
- - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
- fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
- sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
- systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
- to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
- file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
- stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
- seed for all batch processing has been removed. (Chris Shoemaker)
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- INTERNAL:
+ - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+ so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
+ start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+ cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
+ to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
+ that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
- a lot of args.
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
-
- - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
- IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
- handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
- them).
-
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+ - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+ file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+ partial file.
BUILD CHANGES:
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
-
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
- updated).
-
- - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
- target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.
-
- - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
-
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
-
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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