X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/38843171817eda292ad3f35de463ed2cb04689ef..82471e68a8bb3da8ca95f2b6564c330c52ce891e:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1a93c735..37cc29af 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,92 +1,103 @@ -rsync changes since last release +NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.3: - ENHANCEMENTS: + OUTPUT CHANGES: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about + it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only + sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. + + BUG FIXES: - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 + was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude + file). - * 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) + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination + that already exists in the --backup-dir. - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed + setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with + mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is + the sender, and the file-list is large. - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating + FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when + necessary. - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks + that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) + - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the + referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the + user and group of a symlink. - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) + - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time + rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to + backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. - * 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) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can + use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except + that it includes copies of identical files. - * 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) + - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or + --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the + patches dir and enhanced.) - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - * 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) + - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options + so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to + start a daemon that had improper default option values that could + cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon + to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value + that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received + file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the + partial file. - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, + --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. - * Prevent some hangs at the end of a run on Cygwin. (Anthony Heading) + - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories + without recursion. - INTERNAL: + - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to + put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any + option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a + non-recursive listing). - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some + files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at + once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses + --link-dest. - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + INTERNAL: - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over + the socket. - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + BUILD CHANGES: - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().