- 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.
+ 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 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 (if the module is not
- read-only) as well as downloaded.
+ read-only) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+
+ - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
+ the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
+ batch-processing options.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+ - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
and documented all these options in the man page.
INTERNAL:
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some memory and made
- things easier to maintain.
+ - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
+ and made the code easier to maintain.
- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+\f
NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.1: