X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/40f910c43ae4f3afdfc8edbe40ca695ecd786b57..b06050f9ad6657a41b5ca5f7e205e48ed6edb173:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 38655bf1..bfc2d836 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -41,9 +41,6 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - is specified. - - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. @@ -68,6 +65,17 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). + + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These @@ -87,6 +95,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied regardless of how "use chroot" is set. + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer