X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0e5dd898669f2b2f272079320fdc71155008155a..8cd3c6dccf36975fa25c8bcae5e7d74f1fde5a28:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 23d5fd63..ac1994bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,128 +1,136 @@ -NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 30 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.9: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.0: + + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the + itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, + and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish + between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a + revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a + new device number, etc.). 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 crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was + run without specifying a --config=FILE option. - - 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 a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. - - 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 a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to + not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date. - - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the - filter rules. + - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. - - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it - would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync. + - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. - - 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. + - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: + a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. - - 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. + - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom + CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building + of rounding.h fails. - - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination - directory are handled right when --perms is left off. + - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. - ENHANCEMENTS: + - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver + that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on + the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse + protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a + file) was already working. - - 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). - - - A lot more --no-OPTION override options are now supported. + - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that + can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing, + --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set. - INTERNAL: + - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right + modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. + + - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the + exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as + if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the + user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages + for these non-user-initiated rules. + + - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory + handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. + + - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling. + + - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved. + + - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. + + - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no + longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to- + date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions, + ownership, xattrs, etc.). + + - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs) + because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, + it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. - - 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. + - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could + make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path. - - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). + - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support + wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs). - - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. + - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. - - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters - easier without forcing variables via casts. + - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that + rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). - - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of - string-handling functions. + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to + ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than + having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually). + + - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file + listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the + --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue. - - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. + - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. - - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a - compiler warning. + - Improved the documentation of the --append option. + + - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon + parameters. + + INTERNAL: - - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. + - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I + sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release). - - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and - omitted the --server option. + - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper + normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should + not have caused problems, though.) - - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. + - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the + "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory + churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned + args. 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 configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about + unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of + the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. + + - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the + included popt code should be used or not. + + - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command + outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made + the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should + expect hard-linked symlinks or not. + + - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed. + + - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the + rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file. + + - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory + structure.