X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/52e628a8611eb94ea646554caa9489442b5a5be5..5b83829669d9c7e276aeaf8027e112f0aa08dd29:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 99cc19b1..ac1994bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,160 +1,136 @@ -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7 -Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since version 2.5.6: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.0: - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. - Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the - --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - - * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison - 27. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). - The per-file checksum size is determined according - to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which - reduces the probability of rsync algorithm - corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 - checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. + - 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: - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) - - * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the - block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. - Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. - (Craig Barratt) - - * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in - mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit - counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for - file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) - - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) - - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. - - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. + - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was + run without specifying a --config=FILE option. - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. + - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. - * Fixed some exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - For instance, "**/foo" now matches at the root, "CVS/R*" now - matches beyond the root, and "foo**bar" is matched against the - path, not just the trailing name. (Wayne Davison) + - 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 file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) + - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. - INTERNAL: - - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) + - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) + - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: + a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: - - ENHANCEMENTS: + - 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. - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right + modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. - * 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) + - 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. - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory + handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling. - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved. - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - 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.). - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - 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. - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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. - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) + - 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). - BUG FIXES: + - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that + rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). - * 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) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - 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). - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + - 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. - * 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) + - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + - Improved the documentation of the --append option. - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) + - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon + parameters. - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + INTERNAL: - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + - 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 bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + - 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.) - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - 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. - INTERNAL: + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - 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. - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the + included popt code should be used or not. - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - 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. - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - 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 config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory + structure.