- 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.
+ 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) as well as downloaded.
+ 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.
INTERNAL:
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some memory and made
- things easier to maintain.
+ - 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.
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+\f
NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.1: