-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
+Changes since 2.6.7:
BUG FIXES:
- - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
+ - 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.
- - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device
- instead of just updating the permissions.
+ - 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).
- - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
- we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
- hostspec as a filename.
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+ beyond the failed read's data.
- - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
- permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
- the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
+ - 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).
- - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
- algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+ fifos) from being linked.
+
+ - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+ configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+ creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
- preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
- and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
- per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer.
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
- - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
- the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
- should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
- rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
- replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
- dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
+ - 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.
- - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
- unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
- "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
- file ownership that is implied by -a.
+ - 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.
- - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
- which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- INTERNAL:
+ - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+ compatibility functions.
- - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
- - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
- with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+ - 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