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ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) + and documented all these options in the man page. + + INTERNAL: - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some memory and made + things easier to maintain. - * 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) + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling + rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + BUILD CHANGES: - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the various generated + files, including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and + proto.h. - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + - The timestamp of the proto.h file is unaltered by "make proto" + if the contents don't change. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.1: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative + is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were + affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list + item when requesting changes from the sender. + + - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to + better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system. + + - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages + rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix + will be sought in the future.) + + - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid + code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.) + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used + and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the + broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an + NFS build-dir. + + - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define + AI_NUMERICHOST. + + - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that + don't support __attribute__. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1. + + - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir. + + +NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004) +Protocol: 28 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.0: + + SECURITY FIXES: + + - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when + chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync + daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the + user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody". + + ENHANCEMENTS: - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket, + and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details). - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a + "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. + (Bardur Arantsson) - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer + we are, including both a count of files transferred and a + percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also + shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time + values. - * Set the default value of --modify-window to 2 on Cygwin. (Max Bowsher) + - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis- + understood features more clearly. BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) - * 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) + - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or + --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the + referent file is on a different filesystem. - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when + (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was + specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on + the destination and -g was specified. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause + the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get + overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). + + - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of + each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer + with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file + than the current basis file when no new data has been transfered + over the wire for that file. - * 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 a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines. + (Jay Fenlason) - * 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) + - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a + per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one + directory (not all following directories too). The items are also + now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing. - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part + can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to + find the HOST, not the first). - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov) + - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users: + (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name + for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in + that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer + attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission + to set. + + - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. + + - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount- + point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that + it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount- + point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the + original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be + ignoring. + + - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename + when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names + that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). + + - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with + or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as + --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative + one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless. + Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the + module's base dir when chroot is not enabled. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync + versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without + telling us that --backup-dir was specified. + + - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process + now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems + that have a length field in their socket structs. + + - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending + files to an rsync daemon. INTERNAL: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large + speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) + + - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some + significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets. + + - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent. + + - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. + (J.W. Schultz) + + - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up + the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) + + - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the + group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This + prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new + hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically + earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the + receiving side. + + - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released + 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25 + (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, + severally) + + - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). + + - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). + + - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. + + - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). + + - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list + during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory + bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). + Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, + resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving + side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions + are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way + for the entire transfer. + + - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation + pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits + freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) + + - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes + (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and + the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the + "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from + the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator + over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and + verbose --stats output). + + - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a + little more optimized. + + - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as + separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28). + Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit + number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more + compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the + connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the + binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in + fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is + now available. + + - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made + things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient. + + - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now + handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the + wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the + batch code is still considered to be experimental.) + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to + override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. + + - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". + + - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with + sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones + that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus)