X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/5b9cc6953ac0eb9c78c307c2eb7dc584de066674..c89330313ea83cb179b7fa5deb01a562e2ebece5:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 35b0d0b4..98cc5a36 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,10 +4,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + + - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device + instead of just updating the permissions. + - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination hostspec as a filename. + - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with + permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when + the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files @@ -22,6 +31,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. + - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in + the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs + should start. For example, if you specify a source path of + rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only + replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing + dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). + INTERNAL: - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where