X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/65653a6596add724f3dcd2284e7eefde5c0fba34..6a94c58b0009edb20259bbf69219f68f64d7f116:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aee7996c..ff1d4e9a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,227 +1,63 @@ -NEWS for rsync version 2.6.0 -Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since version 2.5.7: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to - change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". - - * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. - Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the - files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - - * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison - 27. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). - The per-file checksum size is determined according - to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which - reduces the probability of rsync algorithm - corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 - checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) - - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. - - * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the - sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the - file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: - * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the - matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not - cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like - what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) - - - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. - For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. - - - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo). - - - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of - the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, - just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. - - - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched - against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if - there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" - would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as - "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance). - - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) - - * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the - block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. - Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. - (Craig Barratt) - - * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in - mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit - counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for - file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) - - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. - - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. - - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. - - * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) - - * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file - that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and - Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files - to not get backed up. - - * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. - - * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly - what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when - using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing - special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or - --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the - same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a - regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and - readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated - files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) - - * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings - if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. - - INTERNAL: + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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. - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a - lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. - Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value - we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). - (Wayne Davison) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7: -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.6: - - SECURITY: - - * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul - Russell, Andrea Barisani) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: + - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - * 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) + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" + and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a + per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode + transfer. - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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). - * 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) - - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) - - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) - - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) - - BUG FIXES: + - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override + unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka + "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of + file ownership that is implied by -a. - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - * 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) - - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - - * 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) - - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) - - * 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) - - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) - - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) - - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) - - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - Some minor documentation improvements. INTERNAL: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) - - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) - - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) - - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) - - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.