X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/5bc933a285cef0455d102b2152d3c5675b5213c5..04c841190f0ce5e89724d9221904c60e75988727:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bd6f9efd..a1b9a3f2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. + - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer sanitizes the symlink target strings. This means that each symlink's value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info @@ -15,11 +18,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the module's hierarchy. - - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest - options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's - destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these - options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since - these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if + the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, + these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references + (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. @@ -31,8 +34,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was receiving files.) + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. + - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - or --size-only is specified. + is specified. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps @@ -45,7 +55,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: ENHANCEMENTS: - - ... + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. + + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) DEVELOPER RELATED: