Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - For anyone who is parsing rsync's verbose output using a script,
+ please note that the 2-line footer now uses the term "sent" instead
+ of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If you are not parsing
+ the numeric values out of this footer, your script would probably be
+ better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the indicator
+ that the verbose output is over.
+
+ - The --stats option was similarly affected to change "written" to
+ "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used 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.
- - 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.)
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
+ data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
+ file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
+ retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
+ (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
+ older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
+ older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
+ error.)
- If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
help).
+ - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+ messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error
+ trying to send data over the socket.
+
+ - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+ hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+ that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
+ rename() behavior).
+
+ - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+ the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+ (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+ writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+
- 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 --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+ file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
+ in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+ are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
+ Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+
- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
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)
+ seed for all batch processing has been removed.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
+ presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
+ authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
+ if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
+ error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for modules
+ names.
INTERNAL:
handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
them).
+ - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to
+ a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size.
+
- Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+ - Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
+ each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
+ the verbose output via script more dependable).
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
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