X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/22f5bd5e35a0b148a8f9b0c0bb9d18827e6996b7..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bf593f33..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,61 +1,127 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - 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. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - 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. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. + - 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 transferred + file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. + + - Some minor documentation improvements. - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it copies identical files. + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir) + INTERNAL: - - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir). + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir) + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - BUILD CHANGES: + - 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. - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().