X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3e550303722ab2c8aa2b7b03aa36de5700bce6a0..b28a27e9e9ccae0dbd5084e74c0f2c801c566a57:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 661d58b3..f49f189e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,173 +1,65 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.0: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over - the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details). - - * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a - "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. - (Bardur Arantsson) - - * The --progress output now mentions how far along in the - transfer we are, including both a count of files transferred - and a percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. - It also shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining- - transfer-time values. - - * The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH - to override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. - - * Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the - ones that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: BUG FIXES: - * When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) - or --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even - if the referent file is on a different filesystem. - - * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user - when (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o - was specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be - used on the destination and -g was specified. - - * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might - cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to - get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). - - * 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 over the wire for that file. + - 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 byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian - machines. (Jay Fenlason) + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". + - 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 "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a - directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one - directory (and not all following directories too). The - items are also now properly word-split and parsed without - any +/- prefix munging. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER - part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' - is used to find the HOST, not the first). + - 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. - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root - users: (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't - have a name for (it would previously skip changing the group - on any files in that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, - rsync no longer attempts to set groups that the user doesn't - have the permission to set. + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". - * Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. - - * Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any - mount-point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal - (in that it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of - the mount-point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped - mount of the original filesystem could get discovered in a - subdir we should be ignoring. - - * Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename - when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names - that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with - sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). + - 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. - * Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync - versions that might send us an empty suffix without telling us - about the backup-dir. + - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped + characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output + using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". - * The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell - process now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix - for systems that have a length field in their socket structs. + - 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.) - * Fixed the ability to request an empty backup suffix when - sending files to an rsync daemon. + - 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). INTERNAL: - * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty - large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) - - * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made - some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file - sets. - - * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent. - - * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds - up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) - - * The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the - group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This - prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new - hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically - earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the - receiving side. - - * Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 - (2.3.0 released 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for - protocols less than 25 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001) - (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, severally) - - * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). - - * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). - - * Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. - - * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). - - * The generator is now better about not modifying the file list - during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory - bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). - Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, - resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving - side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions - are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way - for the entire transfer. - - * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use - allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large file- - sets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). - * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes - (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe - and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to - have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing - messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through - the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected - hard-link messages and verbose --stats output). + BUILD CHANGES: - * The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now - handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over - the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and - a little more optimized. + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - * Device numbers are now sent as separate major/minor values - with 32-bit accuracy for each one (protocol 28). Previously - hard-link device data was sent as a single 64-bit number, and - copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit number. This will - make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more compatible with - their 32-bit brethren. Note that optimizations in the binary - protocol often sends the device data using fewer bytes than - before, even though more precision is now available. + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). - * Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code - made things clearer, simpler, and more efficient. + - 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.