-rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
- Mackerras)
+ BUG FIXES:
- * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
- (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
- Hagino)
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+ is in effect.
- * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
- * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would make rsync think that the file's
+ read-position was left after the failed read's data.
- * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
+ - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+ init).
- * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
- Welbourne)
-
- * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
- multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
- Faith)
-
- * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
- useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
- debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
+
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
+
+ - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+ that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff