X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/42e9c7eb565a6084d5a11c1808f5837babd7955b..bdedced84b7f446f818efd4d25b8985285a50009:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7e60adde..debed383 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,22 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.4: + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- + escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is + output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash + is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which + can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. + + - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would + output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. + BUG FIXES: - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did @@ -9,7 +25,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: rsyncd.conf file. - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash. + that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. @@ -28,20 +44,57 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a newline. - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer - to it as a "file". + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it + as a "directory", not a "file". - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to the file by the destination filename. - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. + generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest of the cluster. + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + + - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not + trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". + + - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't + handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. + + - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when + --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing + slash. + + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + + - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause + the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal + messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + + - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been + specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the + destination). + + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no + transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't + delete anything. + + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead @@ -50,9 +103,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - - 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 "\\". + - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer + (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now + periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver + can get started on the files sooner rather than later. + + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, @@ -63,12 +121,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: really did expect the socket to close). - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall - back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally - silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). + back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is + better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a + daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was + necessary to see the error on stderr). + + - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" + to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. + + - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the + support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options + when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of + other similar options being added at some point). INTERNAL: - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better + discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages. + + - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. + + - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help + someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. BUILD CHANGES: @@ -83,3 +157,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: - 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. + + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + + - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that + enables the optional copying of extended attributes.