X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0fac7fe8b81783965dbadf88b2770b8050a189e6..007351494dcd60990ef6ba3001c790388202ed32:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1ebcff74..f32d8921 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,22 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 28 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.2: + OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): + + - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the + term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If + you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script + should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the + indicator that the verbose output is over. + + - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change + "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". + + - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with + each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that + a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be + output). + BUG FIXES: - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and @@ -17,11 +33,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. - - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will - no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was - specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to - work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders - don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) + - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed + data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis + file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer + retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. + (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be + older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and + older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read + error.) - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the @@ -44,6 +63,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file "vanished". + - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling + the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks + option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. + - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send @@ -63,13 +86,40 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will help). + - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error + messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just + die with a socket-write error). + + - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are + hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure + that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird + rename() behavior). + + - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when + the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. + + - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we + can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered. + This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as + AIX and HP-UX. + ENHANCEMENTS: + - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to + (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- + writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial + - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it as matching a normal directory from the sender. - - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. + - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination + file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data + in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there + are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). + Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). + + - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) and documented all these options in the man page. @@ -83,10 +133,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is - simpler, fixes a few weird problems with the old code, and is much - less intrusive into the code (making it easier to maintain for the - future). (Chris Shoemaker) + - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, + fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer + sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different + systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier + to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data + file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via + stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum- + seed for all batch processing has been removed. + + - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its + presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to + authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get + if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real + error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module + names. + + - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match + option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. INTERNAL: @@ -104,6 +168,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of them). + - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to + a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size. + - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). BUILD CHANGES: