X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0ee32c62d3ba303f30007c8d53f327a8d98bfdf9..3c987ee956c98093d8033499d79a3fb558578f1b:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79892acc..24d6e814 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,131 +1,34 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the - files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + - 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. - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. - - - 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. - - - 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. - - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. - - - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to - require at least -vv for the error to be seen). - - - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle - the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, - --link-dest, or --compare-dest. - - - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files - that have a path component containing a slash. + - 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 --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the - transfer. - - - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size - to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples - of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). - - - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the - --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - - - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the - preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when - possible). - - - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using - --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - - - 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. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables - that are set with information about the transfer.) - - - 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 will now only - replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing - dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). - - - 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. - - - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions - to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will - now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - - - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and - without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure - that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. - - - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to - better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: - "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file - to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of - a total of 9999. - - - Some minor documentation improvements. - - - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - - INTERNAL: - - - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where - MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit - with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining - the VA_COPY macro. + - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is + easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines. - - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory - recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - 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. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - 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. + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - 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).