X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/053f3a831defdbd30f15e58fd0cb23b3f71c5af7..088aac85971f3f1571c7f90569c95d5025b1fd82:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c020267..8c54134c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,114 +1,13 @@ -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*- +rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet) - ANNOUNCEMENTS + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather + than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to + what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try + to parse the output. - NEW FEATURES + * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra) - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging - - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. - - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. - - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also - includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the - Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH - portability project, and OpenBSD. - - ENHANCEMENTS - - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. - - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. - - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. - - * 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. - - * 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. - - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. - - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. - - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. - - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer - - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) - - PLATFORMS: - - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) - - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. - - * Platforms thought to work in this release: - - Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc - Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc - Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc - FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc - Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc - NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc - NetBSD Current i386 cc - OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc - OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc - OpenBSD Current i386 cc - RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc - RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ - RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc - RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc - Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) - Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc - Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc - Solaris 8 i386 gcc - SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 - SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc - powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc - - TESTING: - - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. + * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work + and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)