X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/053f3a831defdbd30f15e58fd0cb23b3f71c5af7..2765f2e4a7293a72869d97bad96ef4ed032ee5c5:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c020267..58da234b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,114 +1,89 @@ -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*- +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: - ANNOUNCEMENTS + BUG FIXES: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. - NEW FEATURES + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash. - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - * 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. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - ENHANCEMENTS + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. - * 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. + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. - * 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. + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped + characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output + using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, + password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - BUG FIXES: + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). + + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally + silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). + + INTERNAL: + + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). - * 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. + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.