X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0417c34e2d641cbac292ba5cf8a619249c87d4e3..e912bd4dfbd9cfa83f7b76209b3fcb34f59b92f9:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9debef79..f0f2aa53 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,8 +2,17 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.6: + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of + clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of + characters is also different (to remove an unused field). + 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 @@ -25,28 +34,72 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - 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. + - 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. + + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. + + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: + - 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 implies -D. + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files). + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. + + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). + + - 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). + + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks. + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). + + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. + - 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. + transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables + that are set with information about the transfer.) - 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 would only + 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). @@ -55,9 +108,50 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership that is implied by -a. + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. + - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will + now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - 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 --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving + rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This + makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include, + exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed + to hold the resulting files. + + - 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. + + - 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 the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the + TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. @@ -69,3 +163,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. + + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - 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 testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file + such as ~/.popt.