X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3cbe640d3c42dbd239e3713e5a60d7dc4c24b649..7634fc8eb613eec2950ad957dc638c920927ca1e:/OLDNEWS diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index f7c74e91..33348a1b 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,252 @@ +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: @@ -132,6 +381,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - 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 @@ -228,9 +482,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory that does not exist. - - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about - it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not - that important). + - 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. @@ -2587,7 +2841,10 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL - ?? ??? 2008 3.0.1 30 + ?? ??? 2008 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31 + 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