X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0752721dc300caeb4d512420140db83699bfc702..0417c34e2d641cbac292ba5cf8a619249c87d4e3:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31b1f96b..9debef79 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,201 +1,71 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about - it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only - sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - - - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both - sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are - being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). - BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). - - - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v). - It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv. - - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. - - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) - - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, + we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination + hostspec as a filename. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with + permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when + the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the - referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the - user and group of a symlink. + - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. - - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time - rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. + - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a - relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a - file that was put into the partial-dir. - - - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. - - - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a - server sender. - - - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the - client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a - compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure - if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have - exited with an error for large files). - - - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not - being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error - about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was - specified). + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - - - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files - from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the - transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the - default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the - --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so - an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, - really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The - default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via - --delete-before. - - - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: - Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created - on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new - algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time. - - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. - - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir and enhanced.) - - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) Also added "address". - - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. - - - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, - --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. - - - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories - without recursion. - - - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to - put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any - option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a - non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a - modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified - manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over - a remote-shell connection. - - - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the - modified time for directories when --times was specified. This - option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of - the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in - an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. - - - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter - rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling - that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory - filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). - This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing - include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older - versions. - - - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into - a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the - --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This - makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. - - - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is - reduced. - - - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This - setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) - - SUPPORT FILES: - - - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some - files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at - once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses - --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. - - - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and - translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount - points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made - relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. - - - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of - all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data - corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the - receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. - - - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync - perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands - can be run by an ssh invocation. - - - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - INTERNAL: + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over - the socket. + - 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. - - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so - that it is easier to maintain. + - 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 + replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing + dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). - - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for - consistency and proper size. + - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override + unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka + "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of + file ownership that is implied by -a. - - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't - find a variable with at least 32 bits. + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - BUILD CHANGES: + INTERNAL: - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.