-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (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
+ should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
+ appropriate).
+
+ - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+ output an "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.
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - 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 the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - 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.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- - 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 --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
+ basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
+ is in effect.
- - 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.)
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- - 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).
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - 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.
- - 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.
+ - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+ to it as a "file".
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
+ - 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.
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+ generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
- - 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".
+ - 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.
- - 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).
+ - 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.
- - 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).
+ - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+ sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
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 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).
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - 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 handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - 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.)
- - 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.
+ - 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).
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+ back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
+ silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
INTERNAL:
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
- a lot of args.
-
- - 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().
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
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:
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+ refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+ - 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.
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