X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0e5dd898669f2b2f272079320fdc71155008155a..7ec8baaa7e1762bb3407b3e7b5037f0443bb7243:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 23d5fd63..b5c62a2d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,128 +1,57 @@ -NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 30 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.9: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.3: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: - it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. + - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to + allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX). - - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest - option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for - matching items. + - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number + of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD). - - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a - signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being - able to get the exit status from the script. + - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This + particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot + be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if + the --remove-source-files was also specified. - - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the - filter rules. + - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the + destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that + a non-root copy can't affect. - - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it - would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync. + - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in + incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled. - - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" - files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the - copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. + - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead + of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides + of the transfer). - - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains - and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this - option to control a remote shell's password prompt. + - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side, + this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail + silently (the user should see the warning about deletions being disabled + due to IO error when --ignore-errors was not specified). - - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination - directory are handled right when --perms is left off. + - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename, + it now outputs the name back to the client without mangling the charset. - ENHANCEMENTS: - - - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking - to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly - (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. - See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. - - - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a - 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is - the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with - the new incremental recursion mode. - - - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete - files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. - - - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is - an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need - to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new - acls.diff patch that will add that.) - - - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is - an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need - to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new - xattrs.diff patch that will add that.) - - - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve - all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. - There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon. - - - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from - one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make - this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If - compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild. If - you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can - specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the - --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, --enable-iconv=. is a - good choice. See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv - option's settings. - - - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving - side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an - older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate - an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client, - or it will be silently ignored.* - - - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and - receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a - hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the - receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data - sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more - data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information - to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving - side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept - the device+inode information on both sides). + - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it + noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory. - - A lot more --no-OPTION override options are now supported. + - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating + the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. - INTERNAL: + - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr. - - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- - named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows - rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one - that will be included in the copy. The new sort was also faster than - the GNU C version of qsort() (and mergesort() too) in my testing. - - - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). - - - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. - - - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters - easier without forcing variables via casts. - - - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of - string-handling functions. - - - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - - - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a - compiler warning. - - - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - - - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and - omitted the --server option. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. + - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol + is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the + user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive + server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the - development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version - info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking - in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made - to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value). + - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile + or the configure files, only for actual changes in content. + + - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release.