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Made batch-mode handle + "redo" files properly (and without hanging). + + - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot. + + - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or + destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem + when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. + + - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from + file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory. + + - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when + incremental recursion is active. + + - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files. + + - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. + + - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command. + + - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the + confusing "non-empty" qualifier. + + - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of + getnameinfo(). + + - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of + consecutive sparse data. + + - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a + client sender (which includes local copying). + + - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready + to remove a directory that was now gone. + + - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings. + + - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial- + transfer warning. + + - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic + update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a + particular symlink idiom. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.3: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to + allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX). + + - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number + of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD). + + - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This + particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot + be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if + the --remove-source-files was also specified. + + - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the + destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that + a non-root copy can't affect. + + - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in + incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled. + + - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead + of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides + of the transfer). + + - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side, + this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail + silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled + due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified). + + - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename, + the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name + with the wrong charset conversion. + + - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating + the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. + + - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr. + + - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number + (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol + is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the + user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive + server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server. + + - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile + or the configure files, only for actual changes in content. + + - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync" + instead of "$RSYNC". + + - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and + to do even more consistency checks on the files. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.2: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has + "use chroot" enabled. + + - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code. + + - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a + --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the + destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied. + + - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev" + error. + + - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup. + + - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon- + exclude rule. + + - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no + files) to a differently named, non-existent directory. + + - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape. + + - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right + errno when a function failed. + + - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir. + + - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect(). + + - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a + newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten. + + - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or + a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes. + + - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older + rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit. + + - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count + (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid + checksum struct over the wire. + + - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded + arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude + check happen in the better place in the sending code. + + - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory(). + + - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file + offsets. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in + the daemon config file as "parameters". + + - The description of the --inplace option was improved. + + EXTRAS: + + - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows + an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that + sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some + compatibility improvements. + + - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the + listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect + a dot-dir arg. + + - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory + from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and + the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get + rebuild without cause. + + - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities + (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps. + + - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to + bleed-over into patches that follow. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.1: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the xattr code. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - None. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The RPM spec file was improved to install more useful files. + + - A few developer-oriented scripts were moved from the support dir + to the packaging dir. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (3 Apr 2008) +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 + run without specifying a --config=FILE option. + + - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to + not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date. + + - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. + + - 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 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 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 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. + + - 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. + + - 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 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. + + - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. + + - 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 + sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release). + + - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper + 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 + unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of + the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. + + - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the + 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. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: + + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to + send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). + This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most + people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having + an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the + transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as + separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) + Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. + + - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now + sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r + along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not + understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to + either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. + + - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output + with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. + Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". + + - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a + symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also + allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has + the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's + hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. + + - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile + for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit + with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync + daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic + breaking of locks to be done). + + BUG FIXES: + + - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon + config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these + options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, + --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. + + - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation + on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable + daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't + taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use + it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- + translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter + for full details. + + - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the + chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the + module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for + libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the + rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside + + - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the + rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the + --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option + was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated + source file. + + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. + + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for + matching items. + + - 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. + + - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the + negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. + + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it + no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination + directory are handled right when --perms is left off. + + - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now + output as a creation event, not a change event. + + - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly + when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. + + - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. + + - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: + any missing backup directories are now created. + + - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or + --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. + + - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. + + - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code + now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). + + - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we + are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems + when transfering read-only files. + + - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at + the end of the run about a partial transfer. + + - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more + options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, + --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. + + - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older + versions would update some files while writing the batch). + + - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken + symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code + already handled this for --copy-links). + + - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. + + - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's + owner when rsync is running as the same user. + + - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is + kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so + that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of + blocks increases. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking + to another 3.x 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. + + - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical + option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). + + - 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. + + - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than + having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- + shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one + (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that + local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . + + - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of + the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args + to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, + and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). + + - 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. + + - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, + ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches + dir. + + - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you + need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of + rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. + + - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve + all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. + It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. + There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. + + - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from + one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to + make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). + If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then + rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by + default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default + value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, + "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an + explanation of the --iconv option's settings. + + - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- + set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You + can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the + client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). + + - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of + file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). + + - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: + *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg + The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. + + - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file + deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older + versions just silently stopped deleting things.) + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn + about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure + what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, + as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though + older versions don't warn). + + - 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). + + - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules + that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. + -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. + + - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. + --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory + that does not exist. + + - If we get an ENOSYS error setting the time on a symlink, we don't + complain about it anymore (for those systems that even support the + setting of the modify-time on a symlink). + + - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4. + + - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the + destination file, which speeds up file appending. + + - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append + option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For + compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is + talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. + + - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a + connection timeout for rsync daemon access. + + - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable + that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. + + - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. + + - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. + + INTERNAL: + + - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- + named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows + rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one + that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster + than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). + + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). + + - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing + through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. + + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. + + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. + + - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. + + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. + + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. + + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. + + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. + + - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and + omitted the --server option. + + - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than + the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new + categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing + an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be + transferred. + + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. + + - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing + older sections of a pool's memory. + + - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with + some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a + better license than the old code. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. + + - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS + (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). + Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. + + - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The + autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the + normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all + generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the + prepare-source script's fetch option). + + - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the + rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). + This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named + rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. + + - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a + complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. + + - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- + directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows + someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is + useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, + but another filesystem does). + + - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the + development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync + versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. + This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may + interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not + interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which + does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be + incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). + + - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change + in the 3.0.0 release. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: + + BUG FIXES: + + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if + the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, + these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references + (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter + how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. + + - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) + + - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we + update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now + notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file + instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file. + + - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. + + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). + + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. + + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps + from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone + over and over again). + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). + + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). + + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. + + - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being + overly long. + + - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no + longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since + the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they + may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. + + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) + + - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output + from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) + + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used as a unique ID + if the pre-xfer command wants to cache some arg/request info for the + post-xfer command. + + INTERNAL: + + - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several + changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() + calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to + an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum + values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some + functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that + could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive + that conditionally compiles the code. + + - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a + top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). + + - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. + The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function + was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that + any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. + + - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already + define it. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. + The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD + compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended + file-attributes. + + - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to + maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info + without actually running as root. It does this using a special + extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on + acls.diff). + + - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work + better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. + + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions. + + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.7: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any + wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative + is in effect. + + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). + + - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as + that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position + beyond the failed read's data. + + - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored + in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by + init). + + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. + + - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as + fifos) from being linked. + + - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at + configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest + creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. + + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. + + - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options. + + - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex + that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. + + - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable + io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also + elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message. + + - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) + compatibility functions. + + - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential + buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code. + + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of + a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present). + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices + (character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and + named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files + under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the + "--specials" option, below. + + - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync + now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in + your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before + for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of + "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal + digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename + (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only + escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9) + (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also + the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below. + + Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names, + so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd + suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the + old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6. + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + + - Fixed a potential hang in a remote generator: when the receiver gets a + read-error on the socket, it now signals the generator about this so that + the generator does not try to send any of the terminating error messages + to the client (avoiding a potential hang in some setups). + + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + + - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this + error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting + it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors). + + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. + + - 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. Also improved how the verbose output + handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate + "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest). + + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. + + - If the code reading a filter/exclude file gets an EINTR error, rsync now + clears the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. + + - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." + suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now + reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. + + - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with + --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able + to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + + - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was + also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning + about being unable to create the missing directory. + + - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the + destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or + device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no + longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir. + + - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied + directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative). + + - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with + --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during). + + - Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this + when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error). + + - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it + was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a + user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing + daemon-rsync connection. + + - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer + forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave + it set. + + - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong + checksum for the current file offset. + + - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non- + directory destination arg. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - 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). + + - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping + high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale. + + - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress, + --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated, + the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old + meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you + just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".) + + - 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). + + - 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 man page 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 + + - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow + a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all + files copied to and from the daemon. + + - 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 the fifth file + to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of + a total of 9999. + + - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing + stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the + dir (dir/** would not match the dir). + + - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync + discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it + easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with + just the directories needed to hold the resulting files. + + - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes + unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all + the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the + client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only + needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. + + - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special + files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices + option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block). + The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a + still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that + omits device copying. + + - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user + activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices + to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also + useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the + receiving rsync isn't being run as root. + + - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP + options used to contact a daemon rsync. + + - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir + setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when + --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight). + + - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files + into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files. + + - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the + execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is + not desired. + + - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request + that it receives. + + - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B + (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt"). + + - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose. + + - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally + removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to + clump up all the removals at the end). + + - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard + PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator + can get the child-exit status from the receiver. + + - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync + sending error messages about invalid/refused options. + + - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg + and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like + the comparable situation with a remote source arg. + + - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links. + + - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some + improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of + --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and + --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved + discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern + matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the + documenting of what the --stats option outputs. + + - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff, + xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff. + + INTERNAL: + + - We now use sigaction() and sigprocmask() if possible, and fall back on + signal() if not. Using sigprocmask() ensures that rsync enables all the + signals that it needs, just in case it was started in a masked state. + + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. + + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + + - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be + supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less + string copying. + + - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and + replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the + output going to the terminal. + + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + + - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make + it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list. + This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances + (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was + combined with --link-dest). + + - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right: + (1) Without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as + though it had been changed; it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for + the file. (2) With -i it would output all dots for the unchanged + attributes of a hard-link; it now changes those dots to spaces, as is + done for other totally unchanged items. + + - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup + item so that we don't get an "already exists" error. + + - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- + time were not honoring the --modify-window option. + + - Fixed a bug where the 'p' (permissions) itemized-changes flag might get + set too often (if some non-significant mode bits differed). + + - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being + unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the + directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that + ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing + destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a + per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). + + - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options + that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was + also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing + of a pull operation that has multiple sources. + + - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a + normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer. + + - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or + improved. + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and + NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we + find in the /etc/group file). + + - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of + -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- + escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is + output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash + is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which + can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. + + - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would + output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. + + BUG FIXES: + + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. + + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash). + + - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the + write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this + only caused an annoying warning message). + + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. + + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. + + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). + + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. + + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it + as a "directory", not a "file". + + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. + + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. + + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. + + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove + the mount-point dir. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + + - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not + trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". + + - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't + handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. + + - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when + --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing + slash. + + - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then + re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive + (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a + trailing slash. + + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + + - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause + the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal + messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + + - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if + "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent + dir of the destination). + + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no + transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't + delete anything. + + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for + compatibility with OS variations). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). + + - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer + (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now + periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver + can get started on the files sooner rather than later. + + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. + + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user, + password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!) + + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). + + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better + than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a + daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was + necessary to see the error on stderr). + + - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" + instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a + non-daemon transfer). + + - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the + support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options + when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of + other similar options being added at some point). + + INTERNAL: + + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to + better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in + messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some + locales). + + - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. + + - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help + someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of + setlocale() in the binary. + + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + + - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. + + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + + - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell + (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release. + + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + + - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch + that enables the optional copying of extended attributes. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005) Protocol: 29 (changed) Changes since 2.6.3: @@ -45,7 +1573,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) + mkstemp(). (Fix derived from cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is the sender, and the file-list is large. @@ -110,9 +1638,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). - - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator - is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress - output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) + - The output of the items that are being updated by the generator (dirs, + symlinks, devices) is now intermingled in the proper order with the + output from the items that the receiver is updating (regular files) + when pulling. This misordering was particularly bad when --progress + was specified. (Requires protocol 29.) - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic @@ -389,6 +1919,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004) Protocol: 28 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.2: @@ -517,6 +2049,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g. using the "2>&1"). + - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from got passed to a daemon. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to @@ -730,7 +2264,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file - than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered + than the current basis file when no new data has been transferred over the wire for that file. - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines. @@ -783,6 +2317,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending files to an rsync daemon. + - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from was sent to a server + sender. + INTERNAL: - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large @@ -1042,7 +2579,7 @@ Changes since 2.5.5: * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael Zimmerman) - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the + * 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) @@ -1434,6 +2971,17 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + ?? ??? 2008 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31 + 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30 + 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30 + 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30 + 08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30 + 03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30 + 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30 + 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29 + 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29 + 11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29 + 28 Jul 2005 2.6.6 29 01 Jun 2005 2.6.5 29 30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28