X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/1ba6468f1bdaec43884b4d01d65834c8ab3312df..8cd3c6dccf36975fa25c8bcae5e7d74f1fde5a28:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3d78dbd1..ac1994bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ 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 a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was @@ -16,54 +25,69 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. + - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: + a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. + - 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. - - Fixed the use of th --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. + - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver - that are non-regular file son the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on + 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. - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that - can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if - --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard- - linked set of files, but not all of them). + 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. + + - 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. - - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time - that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. + - 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. - - 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. symlink referent, device - numbers). - - 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 they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it - automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, + it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + + - 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. - 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 the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. + - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). 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. @@ -72,6 +96,9 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: - Improved the documentation of the --append option. + - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon + parameters. + INTERNAL: - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I @@ -81,6 +108,11 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should not have caused problems, though.) + - 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: - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about @@ -88,7 +120,17 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the - included popt should be used or not. + 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.