X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0156c7842d413de7a6a6f3aae273c73f5d269662..044dc293071c635129afdedad63f30c2d49cd942:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48484fbf..7b0a7e1b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 @@ -87,8 +97,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on both sides). + - A lot more --no-OPTION override options are now supported. + INTERNAL: + - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- + named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows + rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one + that will be included in the copy. The new sort was also faster + than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort() in my testing. + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. @@ -111,8 +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