-NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 27 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.0:
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
- "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
- (Bardur Arantsson)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
BUG FIXES:
- * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user
- when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -u was
- specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on
- the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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).
- * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might
- cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to
- get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Keep per-file track of the sending of literal data with
- --partial so that an interrupted transfer doesn't keep a
- shorter temp file when no new data has been transfered over
- the wire.
+ - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+ that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
+ - 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 picked up from the cygwin package.)
- INTERNAL:
+ - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+ the sender, and the file-list is large.
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
+ - 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.
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user CPU time for large file
- sets. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7:
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
- change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
-
- * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
- Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
- files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
- 27. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
- per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
- provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
- algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
- checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
-
- * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
- unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
-
- * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
- sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
- file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
-
- * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
- This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
- matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
- cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
- what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
-
- - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
- For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
- [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
- "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
- versions.]
-
- - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
- does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
-
- - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
- the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
- just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
- to get the old behavior in all versions.]
-
- - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
- against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
- there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
- would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
- "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
- old behavior in all versions.]
-
- * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
- properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
- user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
- block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
- Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
- (Craig Barratt)
-
- * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
- mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
- counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
- file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
-
- * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
- multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
-
- * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
-
- * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
- consistent manner.
-
- * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
-
- * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
- when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
- and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
-
- * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
-
- * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
- that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
- Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
- to not get backed up.
-
- * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
- 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
- backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
-
- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
-
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+ use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+ - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - 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.)
- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
+ - 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.
- INTERNAL:
+ - 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.
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
+ - 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.
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
+ BUILD CHANGES:
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
+ - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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