-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
-
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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 an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
-
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (if the module is not
- read-only) in addition to the old download exclusion.
-
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
-
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
-
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
-
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the various generated
- files, including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and
- proto.h.
-
- - The timestamp of the proto.h file is unaltered by "make proto"
- if the contents don't change.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
-
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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.1:
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative
- is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were
- affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list
- item when requesting changes from the sender.
-
- - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to
- better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system.
-
- - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages
- rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix
- will be sought in the future.)
-
- - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid
- code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.)
-
- BUILD CHANGES:
-
- - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used
- and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the
- broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an
- NFS build-dir.
-
- - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define
- AI_NUMERICHOST.
-
- - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that
- don't support __attribute__.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1.
-
- - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir.
-
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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004)
-Protocol: 28 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.0: