X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/56fc9f70d385b20d431d9fa62ef4fd3941949717..554dc122f271fc361b963067fa3d80084fd7ca91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 02be9350..4b38c7c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,46 @@ NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Protocol: 31 (changed) Changes since 3.0.4: + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the + --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's + "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including + --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping + or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is + unchanged by default.) When some level of human-readable output is + enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output + is increased. + + - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was + shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", + both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file + size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when + incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used + instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, + letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still + be increasing as new files are found. + + - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created + (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for + protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to + follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount + list broken down by type. + BUG FIXES: - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. + - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte + character to get translated incorrectly. + + - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should + help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting + abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly + closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful @@ -16,16 +50,87 @@ Changes since 3.0.4: control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output using --info=progress2. + - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the + debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket + protocol. + + - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to + either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are + missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files + generates an error). + + - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. + + - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file + ownership during the copy. + - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). - DEVELOPER RELATED: + - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to + allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. - - Added more conditional debug output. + - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's + config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the + specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the + daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid + values, even when not run by a super-user. + + - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file + (using %VAR% references). + + - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file, + the update should now be done in an atomic manner. + + - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only + sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used). + + - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the + upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic. + + - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times. + + - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings. + + - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow + the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden. + + - Added some Solaris xattr code. + + EXTRAS: + + - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes + it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. + + - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which + makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on + passwd/group files from another machine. + + INTERNAL: + + - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads + over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was + changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket). + + - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for + files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more + parallel manner. + + - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value + so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31). + + - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to + read better, and do better sanity checking. - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment handling. + + - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Added more conditional debug output.