-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
- OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
- - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
- it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
- sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
-
- - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if
- both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files
- are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
-
BUG FIXES:
- - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
- file).
-
- - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
- that already exists in the --backup-dir.
-
- - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
- setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
+ - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
+ it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
- - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
- the sender, and the file-list is large.
+ - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
+ option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
+ matching items.
- - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
- FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
- necessary.
+ - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by
+ a signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not
+ being able to get the exit status from the script.
- - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+ - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
+ filter rules.
- - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+ - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
+ files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the
+ copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats.
- - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
- that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
- referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
- user and group of a symlink.
+ - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to
+ delete files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate
+ delete pass.
+
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the
+ receiving side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you
+ can pull from an older rsync with this option, but pushing to an
+ older rsync will generate an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0
+ value to an older rsync client, or it will be silently ignored.*
+
+ - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
+ receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use
+ of a hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently
+ convey to the receiver what files are linked together. This reduces
+ the amount of data sent over the socket by a considerable margin, and
+ moves the in-memory storage of the device+inode information from the
+ receiving side (for protocols < 30) to the sending side (note that
+ older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on both
+ sides).
- - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
- rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+ INTERNAL:
- - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a
- relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
- file that was put into the partial-dir.
+ - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
+ easier without forcing variables via casts.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
+ string-handling functions.
- - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
- use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
-
- - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
- from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
- transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
- default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
- --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
- an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
- really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options.
-
- - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it includes copies of identical files.
-
- - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
- --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
- patches dir and enhanced.)
-
- - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
-
- - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
- so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
- start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
-
- - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
- to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
- that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
-
- - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.)
-
- - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
- file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
- partial file.
-
- - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
-
- - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
- without recursion.
-
- - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
- put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
- option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
- non-recursive listing).
-
- - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
- modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
- really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
- the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
- times.
-
- - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
- rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
- that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
- filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
- This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
- include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
-
- - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
- a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
- --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
- makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
-
- SUPPORT FILES:
-
- - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
- files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
- once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
- --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
-
- - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
- translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
- points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
- relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
-
- - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
- all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
- corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
- receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
-
- - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
- perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
- can be run by an ssh invocation.
+ - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
- INTERNAL:
+ - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
+ compiler warning.
- - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
- the socket.
+ - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
- - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+ - ...
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