X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0fac7fe8b81783965dbadf88b2770b8050a189e6..ab3d6c6025162c19c082602aa1e488f22e40d392:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1ebcff74..3d51c537 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,130 +1,84 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - 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 the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the - checksums. + - 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. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - 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 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. + - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the + filter rules. - - 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.) + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it + would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync. - - 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). + - 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 an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). - - - 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. - - - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a - phase. - - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - - - 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". - - - 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). - - - 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). - - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. - - - 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). + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - - 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 long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. - - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. - - - 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 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) + - 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. + + - 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). INTERNAL: - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. - - - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has - a lot of args. + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. - - 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). + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. - - - 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). - - - 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. - - - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. - - - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted - ones were removed. - + - ...