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Schultz, Donovan Baarda) - - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.2: BUG FIXES: - * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the - matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not - cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like - what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) - - - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. - For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. - - - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo). - - - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of - the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, - just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. - - - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched - against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if - there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" - would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as - "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance). - - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) - - * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the - block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. - Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. - (Craig Barratt) - - * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in - mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit - counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for - file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) - - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) + - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and + multiple source directories were specified. - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. + - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the + checksums. - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. + - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories + over and over again (generating warnings along the way). - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. + - 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. - * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) + - 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 compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file - that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and - Wayne Davison) + - 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 bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files - to not get backed up. + - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy + (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). - * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. + - 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. - * Improved the mkstemp error message to always include the directory - info where the temp file is being created. (Wayne Davison) + - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a + phase. - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when - using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) + - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves + the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - INTERNAL: - - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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". - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) + - 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). - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: + - 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). ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the - specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) - server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such - as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) + - 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 rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) + and documented all these options in the man page. - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less + bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of + values. - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - 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 .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, + fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer + sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different + systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier + to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data + file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via + stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum- + seed for all batch processing has been removed. (Chris Shoemaker) - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) - - * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not - in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents - timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) - - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + INTERNAL: - * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that - contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file - list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory + and made the code easier to maintain. - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has + a lot of args. - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling + rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - 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). - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + BUILD CHANGES: - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - 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). - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - 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. - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted + ones were removed. - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)