- Made glob_expand_one() public.

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
     - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
       directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
 
+    - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
+      when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
@@ -71,11 +74,18 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       good choice.  See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv
       option's settings.
 
-    - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
-      side is at least version 3.0.0.  This means that you can pull from an
-      older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
-      an error.  *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
-      or it will be silently ignored.*
+    - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override of the default list of
+      file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
+
+    - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
+      deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped.  (Older
+      versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
+
+    - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
+      about any files that it wants to delete without deleting anything.  If
+      you're not sure what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious
+      --max-delete=-1, as old and new versions will both treat that as the
+      same request (though older versions don't warn).
 
     - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
       receiving side for all protocol versions.  For protocol 30, the use of a
@@ -119,8 +129,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
 
     - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
 
+    - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
+      sections of a pool's memory.
+
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
+    - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+
     - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
       development of a new protocol version.  This exchange of sub-version
       info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking