X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0fac7fe8b81783965dbadf88b2770b8050a189e6..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1ebcff74..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,130 +1,127 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). - - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the - checksums. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and - 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 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. - - 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.) + - 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. - - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option - is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the - original file in the process). + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. - - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config - items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module - allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a - phase. + - 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). - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. + - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle + the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error - for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file - "vanished". + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. - - 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 - the message). + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to - the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to - be daemon-only). + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. - - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to - implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error - that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 - implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might - suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will - help). + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - ENHANCEMENTS: + - 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). - - 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. + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and - SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. + - 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.) - - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. + - 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). - - 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) + - 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. - INTERNAL: + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has - a lot of args. + - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will + now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + - 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. - - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both - IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file - handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of - them). + - 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 transferred + file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. - - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). + - Some minor documentation improvements. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + INTERNAL: - - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be - updated). + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip - target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems - have $STRIP set in the environment. + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. - - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. - DEVELOPER RELATED: + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted - ones were removed. + - 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.