-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+
+ - 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 potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
- otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
- accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
- (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
- * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
- a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
- similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
- (Martin Pool)
+ - 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.)
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- BUG FIXES:
+ - 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.
- * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
- slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
- current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
+ - 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.
- * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
- Pool.)
+ - 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.
- * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
- for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest.
- * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
- trailing slashes.
- <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
- (Martin Pool)
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().