X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/6c3fda83ba97e423018147366d1029b9c4ca611b..3610c4583a6b187fa6fc98ad0025340c6f840d53:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c47a43df..a9f3414b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.3: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 + was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude + file). + + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination + that already exists in the --backup-dir. + + - 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(). + + - 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. + + - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options + so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a + user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that + could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects. + + - 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. + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Support an OS that uses mkdev() instead of makedev(). + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004) Protocol: 28 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.2: @@ -186,6 +225,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.2: - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir). + - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000 + filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired + limit). + INTERNAL: - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory