X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/25ea348bd19f1b7b69d114fff72a7cb905db4b1b..82471e68a8bb3da8ca95f2b6564c330c52ce891e:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3dfd0dea..37cc29af 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,55 +1,103 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.3: - ANNOUNCEMENTS + OUTPUT CHANGES: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about + it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only + sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. + + BUG FIXES: - NEW FEATURES + - 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). - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination + that already exists in the --backup-dir. - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + - 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.) - ENHANCEMENTS + - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is + the sender, and the file-list is large. - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + - 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. - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. + - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks + that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. + - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the + referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the + user and group of a symlink. - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time + rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to + backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can + use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - BUG FIXES: + - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except + that it includes copies of identical files. + + - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or + --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the + patches dir and enhanced.) + + - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) + + - 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. + + - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, + --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. + + - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories + without recursion. + + - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to + put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any + option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a + non-recursive listing). + + - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some + files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at + once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses + --link-dest. - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. + INTERNAL: - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over + the socket. - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. - * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug. + BUILD CHANGES: - * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison. \ No newline at end of file + - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().