-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
- BUG FIXES:
-
- - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
-
- - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
-
- - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
- permissions without recreating the file.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
- algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
+ NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
- - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
- fails.
+ - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
+ itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
+ and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
+ between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
+ revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a
+ new device number, etc.).
- - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
-
- - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
- require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
-
- - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
- the exit status properly and generate a better error.
+ BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
- --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
- - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
- that have a path component containing a slash.
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
- - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
- the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
+ not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
- - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
- suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
- reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
- - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
- --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being
- able to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted:
+ a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure.
- - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
- not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
- block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
- requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still infers -D.
+ - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
+ CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
+ of rounding.h fails.
- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
- - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
- transfer.
+ - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
+ that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
+ the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
+ protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
+ file) was already working.
- - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
- rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing,
+ --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set.
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
- to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
- of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
+ - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right
+ modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
- - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
- --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
+ - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the
+ exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as
+ if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the
+ user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages
+ for these non-user-initiated rules.
- - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
- preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+ - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
+ handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
- - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
- possible).
+ - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
- - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
- --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
- - 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. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
- that are set with information about the transfer.)
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
- - 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 will now 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 --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
+ longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
+ date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
+ ownership, xattrs, etc.).
- - 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.
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled,
+ it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
- - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
- to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
+ - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could
+ make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path.
- - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
- which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+ - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
+ wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
- - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
- now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+ - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs.
- - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
- without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
- that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
- - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
- better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
- to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
- a total of 9999.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
- trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
- content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+ - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to
+ ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than
+ having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually).
- - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
- unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
- all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course,
- the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
- rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+ - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
+ listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
+ --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
- - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-
- user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such
- as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0,
- and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will
- be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
- - Some minor documentation improvements.
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
- - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+ - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
+ parameters.
INTERNAL:
- - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+ - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
+ sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
- - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
- with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+ - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
+ normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
+ not have caused problems, though.)
- - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
- the VA_COPY macro.
+ - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
+ "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory
+ churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
+ args.
- - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
- recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to
- be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to
- do less string copying.
+ - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
+ unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
+ the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
- - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
- replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all
- the output going to the terminal.
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt code should be used or not.
- - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+ - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command
+ outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made
+ the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should
+ expect hard-linked symlinks or not.
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed.
- - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
- configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
- the newly patched feature.
+ - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the
+ rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.