Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - For anyone who is parsing rsync's verbose output using a script,
+ please note that the 2-line footer now uses the term "sent" instead
+ of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If you are not parsing
+ the numeric values out of this footer, your script would probably be
+ better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the indicator
+ that the verbose output is over.
+
+ - The --stats option was similarly affected to change "written" to
+ "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
+ - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
+ checksums.
+
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
- - 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.)
+ - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
+ data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
+ file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
+ retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
+ (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
+ older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
+ older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
+ error.)
+
+ - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
+ is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
+ original file in the process).
- Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
(rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
the message).
+ - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
+ the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
+ be daemon-only).
+
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
+ - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
+ implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
+ that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
+ implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
+ suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
+ help).
+
+ - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+ messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error
+ trying to send data over the socket.
+
+ - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+ hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+ that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
+ rename() behavior).
+
+ - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+ the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+ (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+ writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+
- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+ onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+ - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+ file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
+ in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+ are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
+ Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+
- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+ - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
+ fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
+ sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
+ systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
+ to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
+ file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
+ stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
+ seed for all batch processing has been removed.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
+ presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
+ authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
+ if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
+ error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for modules
+ names.
+
INTERNAL:
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
and made the code easier to maintain.
+ - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
+ a lot of args.
+
- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+ - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
+ IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
+ handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
+ them).
+
+ - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to
+ a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size.
+
+ - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+
+ - Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
+ each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
+ the verbose output via script more dependable).
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be
+ proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
updated).
+ - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
+ target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
+ have $STRIP set in the environment.
+
+ - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
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