-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (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.
+Changes since 2.6.7:
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.
-
- - 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
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
is in effect.
- - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
- processing.
-
- - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
- addition to its use in daemon mode).
-
- - 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.
-
- - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
- as a "directory", not 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 a needed 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.
-
- - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
- trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
- - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
- handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+ beyond the failed read's data.
- - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
- --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
- slash.
+ - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+ init).
- - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
- - 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.)
+ - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+ fifos) from being linked.
- - 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.
+ - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+ configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+ creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
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 keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
- sender and the receiver that can occur when processing the checksum
- data for a large file.
-
- - 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.)
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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).
-
- 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.
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+ - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+ that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
- - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
- - 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.
+ - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+ compatibility functions.
- - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
- enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff