X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/5fe857d4be39213787b19394743ac1b1e964a737..b635bc92d16f538b2ea949580f55c86532d84843:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cf72e930..0e6cae1c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,175 +1,48 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: - - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- - escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is - output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash - is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which - can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. - - - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would - output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit - status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do - this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed - to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we - now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and - exit with the appropriate exit status. +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did - not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the - rsyncd.conf file. - - - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the - basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any + wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative is in effect. - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. - - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). - - - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete - processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a - newline. - - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it - as a "directory", not a "file". - - - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any - generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to - the file by the destination filename. - - - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. - - - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked - to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest - of the cluster. - - - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync - no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the - receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove - the mount-point dir. - - - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and - sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. - - - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not - trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". - - - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't - handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. - - - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when - --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing - slash. - - - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then - re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive - (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a - trailing slash. + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). - - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as + that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position + beyond the failed read's data. - - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause - the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal - messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored + in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by + init). - - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been - specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the - destination). - - - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no - transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't - delete anything. - - - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the - "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. - - - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno - for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead - of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any - actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all - the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you - are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - - - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer - (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now - periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver - can get started on the files sooner rather than later. - - - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the - sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving - the checksum data for a large file. - - - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include - some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, - password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - - - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that - it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we - really did expect the socket to close). - - - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall - back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is - better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a - daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was - necessary to see the error on stderr). - - - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" - to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. - - - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the - support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options - when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of - other similar options being added at some point). - - INTERNAL: - - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better - discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages. - - - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. - - - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help - someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. - - BUILD CHANGES: - - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - - - Only define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex + that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. - - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that - the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s - presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. - - Configure no longer mentions the switch from rsh to ssh (for the - default remote shell) that occurred in 2.6.0. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. - - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that - enables the optional copying of extended attributes. + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of + a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).