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An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid(). + + - Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that + needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior. + + - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses + its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. + + - Improved the "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message. + + - Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case + where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data + to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing). + + - Some misc manpage improvements. + + - Fixed the chmod-temp-dir testsuite on a system without /var/tmp. + + - Make sure that a timeout specified in the daemon's config is used as a + maximum timeout value when the user also specifies a timeout. + + - Improved the error-exit reporting when rsync gets an error trying to + cleanup after an error: the initial error is reported. + + - Improved configure's detection of IPv6 for solaris and cygwin. + + - The AIX sysacls routines will now return ENOSYS if ENOTSUP is missing. + + - Made our (only used if missing) getaddrinfo() routine use inet_pton() + (which we also provide) instead of inet_aton(). + + - The exit-related debug messages now mention the program's role so it is + clear who output what message. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Got rid of type-punned compiler warnings output by newer gcc versions. + + - The Makefile now ensures that proto.h will be rebuilt if config.h changes. + + - The testsuite no longer uses "id -u", so it works better on solaris. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.5: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was + created from an incremental-recursion transfer. + + - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of + multiple connections. + + - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that + have consecutive slashes in the value. + + - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed. + + - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which + avoids a transfer error in the receiver. + + - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was + an I/O during the sending of the file list. + + - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the + start of the short options. + + - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code + 23 instead of the proper exit code 24. + + - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy. + + - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the + receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in + the transfer. + + - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present. + + - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause + rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files. + + - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch. + + - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch. + + - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target. + + - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option. + + - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding + the --disable-iconv-open configure option. + + - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or + the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch. + + - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.4: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a + crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero. + Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking. + + - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short + options specified. + + - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental + recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle + "redo" files properly (and without hanging). + + - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot. + + - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or + destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem + when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. + + - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from + file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory. + + - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when + incremental recursion is active. + + - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files. + + - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. + + - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command. + + - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the + confusing "non-empty" qualifier. + + - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of + getnameinfo(). + + - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of + consecutive sparse data. + + - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a + client sender (which includes local copying). + + - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready + to remove a directory that was now gone. + + - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings. + + - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial- + transfer warning. + + - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic + update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a + particular symlink idiom. + + +NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.3: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to + allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX). + + - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number + of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD). + + - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This + particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot + be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if + the --remove-source-files was also specified. + + - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the + destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that + a non-root copy can't affect. + + - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in + incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled. + + - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead + of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides + of the transfer). + + - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side, + this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail + silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled + due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified). + + - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename, + the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name + with the wrong charset conversion. + + - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating + the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. + + - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr. + + - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number + (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol + is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the + user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive + server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server. + + - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile + or the configure files, only for actual changes in content. + + - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync" + instead of "$RSYNC". + + - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and + to do even more consistency checks on the files. + + +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: + + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to + send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). + This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most + people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having + an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the + transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as + separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) + Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. + + - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now + sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r + along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not + understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to + either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. + + - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output + with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. + Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". + + - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a + symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also + allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has + the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's + hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. + + - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile + for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit + with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync + daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic + breaking of locks to be done). + + BUG FIXES: + + - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon + config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these + options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, + --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. + + - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation + on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable + daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't + taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use + it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- + translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter + for full details. + + - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the + chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the + module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for + libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the + rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside + + - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the + rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the + --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option + was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated + source file. + + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. + + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for + matching items. + + - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a + signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being + able to get the exit status from the script. + + - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the + negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. + + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it + no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. + + - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" + files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the + copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. + + - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains + and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this + option to control a remote shell's password prompt. + + - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination + directory are handled right when --perms is left off. + + - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now + output as a creation event, not a change event. + + - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly + when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. + + - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. + + - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: + any missing backup directories are now created. + + - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or + --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. + + - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. + + - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code + now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). + + - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we + are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems + when transfering read-only files. + + - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at + the end of the run about a partial transfer. + + - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more + options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, + --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. + + - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older + versions would update some files while writing the batch). + + - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken + symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code + already handled this for --copy-links). + + - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. + + - 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 + to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly + (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. + See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. + + - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical + option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). + + - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a + 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is + the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with + the new incremental recursion mode. + + - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than + having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- + shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one + (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that + local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . + + - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of + the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args + to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, + and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). + + - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete + files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. + + - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, + ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches + dir. + + - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you + need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of + rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. + + - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve + all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. + It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. + There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. + + - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from + one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to + make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). + If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then + rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by + default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default + value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, + "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an + explanation of the --iconv option's settings. + + - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- + set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You + can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the + client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). + + - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of + file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). + + - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: + *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg + The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. + + - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file + deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older + versions just silently stopped deleting things.) + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn + about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure + what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, + as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though + older versions don't warn). + + - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and + receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a + hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the + receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data + sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more + data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information + to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving + side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept + the device+inode information on both sides). + + - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules + that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. + -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. + + - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. + --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory + that does not exist. + + - 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. + + - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the + destination file, which speeds up file appending. + + - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append + option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For + compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is + talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. + + - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a + connection timeout for rsync daemon access. + + - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable + that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. + + - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. + + - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. + + INTERNAL: + + - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- + named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows + rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one + that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster + than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). + + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). + + - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing + through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. + + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. + + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. + + - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. + + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. + + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. + + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. + + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. + + - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and + omitted the --server option. + + - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than + the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new + categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing + an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be + transferred. + + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. + + - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing + older sections of a pool's memory. + + - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with + some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a + better license than the old code. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. + + - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS + (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). + Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. + + - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The + autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the + normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all + generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the + prepare-source script's fetch option). + + - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the + rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). + This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named + rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. + + - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a + complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. + + - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- + directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows + someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is + useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, + but another filesystem does). + + - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the + development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync + versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. + This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may + interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not + interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which + does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be + incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). + + - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change + in the 3.0.0 release. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.8: @@ -2244,6 +3094,14 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + ?? ??? 2010 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31 + 31 Dec 2009 3.0.7 30 + 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30 + 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30 + 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30 + 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