X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/32199c6b00a6350c26e7a6eb82091f35938a1840..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b75c05e0..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,79 +1,127 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.5: - - SECURITY FIXES: - - - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more - secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did - not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's - zlib 1.1.4. +Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: - - The setting of flist->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: - 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); 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. + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). - - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification- - time were not honoring the --modify-window option. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - 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). + - 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. + 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). - - The configure script now checks for lutimes() and lchmod() so that - rsync can make use of them to update attributes of symlinks (on - systems that support this). + - 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). - - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a - per-module basis (which now matches the documentation). + - 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. + 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. + + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. + + INTERNAL: - - 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. + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a - normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer. + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. - - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or - improved. + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. - - 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). + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of - -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages. + - 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.