-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
- terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
+ not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
- - 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. (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 the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
- allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+ - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
+ CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
+ of rounding.h fails.
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
+ - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
+ that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
+ the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
+ protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
+ file) was already working.
- - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
- for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
- "vanished".
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if
+ --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard-
+ linked set of files, but not all of them).
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
+ - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time
+ that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+ - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
+ itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
+ and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
+ between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
+ revised version with a new value (e.g. symlink referent, device
+ numbers).
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+ - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
+ longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
+ date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
+ ownership, xattrs, etc.).
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it
+ automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
+ - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
+ wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- INTERNAL:
+ - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
+ listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
+ --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
- BUILD CHANGES:
+ INTERNAL:
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
+ - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
+ sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be
- updated).
+ - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
+ normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
+ not have caused problems, though.)
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
+ unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
+ the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt should be used or not.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.