-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
- - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
- clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
- characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.5:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
-
- - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
-
- - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
- permissions without recreating the file.
-
- - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
- we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
- hostspec as a filename.
-
- - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
- permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
- the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
-
- - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
- algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
-
- - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
- fails.
-
- - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
-
- - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
- require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
-
- - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
- the exit status properly and generate a better error.
-
- - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
- --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
-
- - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
- that have a path component containing a slash.
-
- - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
- the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
-
- - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
- suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
- reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
-
- - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
- --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being
- able to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
- not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
- block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
- requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
-
- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
-
- - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
- transfer.
-
- - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
- rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
-
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
- to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
- of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
-
- - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
- --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
-
- - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
- preservation of attributes on symlinks.
-
- - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
- possible).
-
- - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
- --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
-
- - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
- and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
- per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
- that are set with information about the transfer.)
-
- - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
- the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
- should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
- rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
- replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
- dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
-
- - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
- unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
- "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
- file ownership that is implied by -a.
-
- - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
- to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
-
- - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
- which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
-
- - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
- now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
-
- - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
- without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
- that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
-
- - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
- better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
- to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
- a total of 9999.
-
- - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
- trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
- content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+ - Fixed a hang in the batch-reading code with incremental recursion.
- - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
- unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
- all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course,
- the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
- rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+ - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
+ multiple connections.
- - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-
- user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such
- as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0,
- and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will
- be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+ - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
+ have consecutive slashes in the value.
- - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the
- TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync.
+ - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
- - Some minor documentation improvements.
+ - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
+ avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
- - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+ - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
+ an I/O during the sending of the file list.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
+ start of the short options.
- - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+ - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
+ 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
- - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
- with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+ - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
- - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
- the VA_COPY macro.
+ - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
+ receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
+ the transfer.
- - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
- recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+ - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
- - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to
- be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to
- do less string copying.
+ - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
+ rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
- - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
- replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all
- the output going to the terminal.
+ - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
- - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+ - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
- - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
- configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
- the newly patched feature.
+ - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
- - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
- such as ~/.popt.
+ - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
+ the --disable-iconv-open configure option.