-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
+ "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
+ --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
+ or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
+ unchanged by default.)
+
+ - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
+ shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
+ both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
+ size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
+ incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
+ instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
+ letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
+ be increasing as new files are found.
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
-
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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 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 age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
-
- - 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.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the
+ receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-
+ specified files generates an error).
- - If the daemon get an address-in-use error starting up, we sometimes
- suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 to work around their
- buggy socket implementation.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for
+ protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and
+ deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type.
- - 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 --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
- INTERNAL:
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf
+ file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a
+ daemon that was not run by a super-user.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ EXTRAS:
- - 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 connecton (we used to close just one of
- them).
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
- 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 timestamp 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.
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
+
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
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