X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4e1f385711a5c5703eb1c3bbf21cc83c95fe3a6e..c7b1a56b3d70fb91b20702f169ae1af9b68de8e9:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 52a81e3e..4cffa09a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and multiple source directories were specified. + - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the + checksums. + - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories over and over again (generating warnings along the way). @@ -20,6 +23,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) + - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option + is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the + original file in the process). + - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). @@ -27,16 +34,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a + phase. + - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. + - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error + for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file + "vanished". + + - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as + refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used + to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send + the message). + + - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to + the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to + be daemon-only). + - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the batch-processing options. + - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to + implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error + that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 + implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might + suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will + help). + ENHANCEMENTS: - - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory - onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it + - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory + onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it as matching a normal directory from the sender. - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. @@ -58,18 +88,38 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory and made the code easier to maintain. + - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has + a lot of args. + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both + IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file + handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of + them). + + - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). + BUILD CHANGES: - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated). + proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be + updated). + + - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip + target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems + have $STRIP set in the environment. + + - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. DEVELOPER RELATED: - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted + ones were removed. +