X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4eb61975b7807e025a9567fba5879dd551d292bb..f8a94f0de88c5cbf24ef4d5a7d5cba1ead86afff:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92d47b39..34e424ff 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,78 +1,46 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- +rsync changes since last release - ANNOUNCEMENTS + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - NEW FEATURES + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + Zimmerman) - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the + specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) + server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such + as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. - - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. - - ENHANCEMENTS - - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. - - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. - - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. - - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. - - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. - - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. - - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. - - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. - - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) BUG FIXES: + + * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John + L. Allen, Martin Pool) - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not + in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents + timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - PLATFORMS: + * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that + contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file + list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + INTERNAL: - TESTING: + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin + Pool, Nelson Beebe) - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. + * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus)