X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3405fe45f40b050176e92be0ce00fc04a8345509..536b84680b4ab1f29fa456b4fa7b5b16eff4af8f:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4b4c6d31..2e6404d8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,63 +1,92 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) +rsync changes since last release - ANNOUNCEMENTS + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - NEW FEATURES + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + Zimmerman) - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + * 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) - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - ENHANCEMENTS + * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that + unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. + (J.W. Schultz) - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an + rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon + Middleton) - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" + and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) - * 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. + * Set the default value of --modify-window to 1 on Cygwin. (Lapo + Luchini) - * 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. + * Open config files in text mode when O_TEXT is defined. This helps + on Cygwin when the config files are on a filesystem that are mounted + in binary mode. (Ville Herva) - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. + (Dave Dykstra) - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + * 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) - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - BUG FIXES: + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + + * 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) + + * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple + dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + + * 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) + + * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely + broken. (Dave Dykstra) + + * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. + (Sviatoslav Sviridov) + + * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories + when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. + INTERNAL: - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin + Pool, Nelson Beebe) - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) - * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison. + * More test cases. (Martin Pool) - * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13. + * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) - PLATFORMS: + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus) - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this + means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)