-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+rsync changes since last release
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+ * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
- NEW FEATURES
+ * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
+ Zimmerman)
- * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+ * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
+ specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
+ server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
+ as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
- * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+ * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
+ destination field.
- ENHANCEMENTS
+ * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
+ rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
- * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
- included or excluded and why.
+ * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
+ unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
+ (J.W. Schultz)
- * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
- details.
+ * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
+ rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
- * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+ * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
+ Middleton)
- * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
- file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
- open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
- file to get cleaned out by another process.
+ * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
+ and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
- * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
- options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
- consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
- installed on the platform.
+ * Set the default value of --modify-window to 1 on Cygwin. (Lapo
+ Luchini)
- * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
- files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+ * Open config files in text mode when O_TEXT is defined. This helps
+ on Cygwin when the config files are on a filesystem that are mounted
+ in binary mode. (Ville Herva)
- * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+ * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
+ (Dave Dykstra)
- * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
- explain that we do it in a secure way.
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
+ L. Allen, Martin Pool)
- * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
- local machine.
+ * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
+ in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
+ timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
- BUG FIXES:
+ * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+
+ * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
+
+ * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
+ contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
+ list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
+ dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
+ processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
+ an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
+ broken. (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
+ (Sviatoslav Sviridov)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
+ when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
+
+ INTERNAL:
- * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+ * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
+ Pool, Nelson Beebe)
- * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+ * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
- * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
- to transfer fail to transfer
+ * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
- * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug.
+ * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
- * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
+ * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
+ (Jos Backus)
- * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.
+ * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
+ means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
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