X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/536b84680b4ab1f29fa456b4fa7b5b16eff4af8f..a30dcbc0a8850f63fe831e9f38259347ac4aaa7c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e6404d8..48484fbf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,92 +1,120 @@ -rsync changes since last release +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * 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) - - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. - - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + BUG FIXES: - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for + matching items. - * Set the default value of --modify-window to 1 on Cygwin. (Lapo - Luchini) + - 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. - * Open config files in text mode when O_TEXT is defined. This helps - on Cygwin when the config files are on a filesystem that are mounted - in binary mode. (Ville Herva) + - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the + filter rules. - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it + would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync. - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - 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. - * 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) + - 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. - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination + directory are handled right when --perms is left off. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + ENHANCEMENTS: - * 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) + - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking + to another 3.0.0 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. + + - 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. + + - 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. (If you need + to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new + acls.diff patch that will add that.) + + - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need + to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new + xattrs.diff patch that will add that.) + + - 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. + There is also an analogous "fake super" option 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 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 man page for an explanation of the --iconv + option's settings. + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving + side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an + older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate + an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client, + or it will be silently ignored.* + + - 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). - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + INTERNAL: - * 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) + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov) + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. - INTERNAL: + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and + omitted the --server option. - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the + development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version + info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking + in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made + to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).