X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/060f31500b7dfc0b949886055d57a73a527772eb..8b3e964d14aaf4b128d40362a74e20a390393327:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0246b92f..1aa40ffc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,102 +1,29 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: - - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- - escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is - output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash - is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which - should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable, as - appropriate. +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - 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. - - - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - - 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 + - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any + wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative is in effect. - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. - - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). - - - 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. - - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer - to it as a "file". - - - 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. - - - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. - - - 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. - - - 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. - - - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and - sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). ENHANCEMENTS: - - 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). - - - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer - (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now - periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver - can get started on the files sooner rather than later. - - - 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.) - - - 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. + - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is + easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines. - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - 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. + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of + a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).