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By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination + that already exists in the --backup-dir. - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also - includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the - Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH - portability project, and OpenBSD. + - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed + setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with + mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) - ENHANCEMENTS + - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is + the sender, and the file-list is large. - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating + FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when + necessary. - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. + - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks + that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. + - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the + referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the + user and group of a symlink. - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time + rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a + relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a + file that was put into the partial-dir. - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a + server sender. - BUG FIXES: + - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the + client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a + compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure + if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have + exited with an error for large files). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can + use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. + + - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files + from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the + transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the + default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the + --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so + an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, + really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. + + - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except + that it includes copies of identical files. + + - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or + --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the + patches dir and enhanced.) + + - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) + + - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options + so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to + start a daemon that had improper default option values that could + cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. + + - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon + to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value + that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. + + - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) Also added "address". + + - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received + file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the + partial file. + + - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, + --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. + + - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories + without recursion. + + - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to + put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any + option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a + non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a + modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified + manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over + a remote-shell connection. + + - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the + modified time for directories when --times was specified. This + option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of + the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in + an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. + + - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter + rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling + that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory + filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). + This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing + include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older + versions. + + - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into + a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the + --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This + makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. + + - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is + reduced. + + SUPPORT FILES: + + - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some + files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at + once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses + --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. + + - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and + translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount + points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made + relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. + + - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of + all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data + corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the + receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. + + - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync + perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands + can be run by an ssh invocation. + + INTERNAL: + + - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over + the socket. + + - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so + that it is easier to maintain. + + - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for + consistency and proper size. + + - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer - - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) - - PLATFORMS: - - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) - - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. - - * Platforms thought to work in this release: - - Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc - Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc - Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc - FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc - Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc - NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc - NetBSD Current i386 cc - OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc - OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc - OpenBSD Current i386 cc - RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc - RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ - RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc - RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc - Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) - Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc - Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc - Solaris 8 i386 gcc - SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 - SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 - - TESTING: - - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. + - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.