X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/6b320e40456ff0830d428d0f9c4a938e57845101..e80876700c49d5465df9e4b7c3e2f985eb137b8d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 34731a41..50e12ac1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,141 +1,109 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.0: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over - the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details). - - * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a - "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. - (Bardur Arantsson) - - * 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're processed. - It was also improved to better show the current rate of - transfer (which is used to estimate the remaining transfer - time). - - * The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH - to override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - * When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) - or --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even - if the referant file is on a different filesystem. + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - * 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. + - 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. - * 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 bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) - * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian - machines. (Jay Fenlason) + - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. - * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). - * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a - directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one - directory (and not all following directories too). + - 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. - * When transferring a file that has group 0 with -g specified - (typically via -a) and not enough privs to retain the group, - rsync no longer complains about "chown" failing. + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps + from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone + over and over again). - * 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). + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. - * 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 a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). - * Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - * 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 remaped - mount of the original filesystem could get discovered on a - disk we should be ignoring. + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. - * 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). + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). - * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with - sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. - INTERNAL: + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. - * 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 variable-type cleanup that makes 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. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * 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) + - 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. - * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). + - 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.) - * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. - * Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) - * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer + command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. - * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use - allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large - filesets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * 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 (the latter mainly affected - hard-link messages and verbose --stats output). + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. - * 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. + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and - a little more optimized. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.