X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/759ac87019791378c4a97b541e7cdf1349dd4c69..7bc8218d814a9014536685e0e544aa7fd06b9868:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e255d69d..0717163c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,25 +2,61 @@ rsync changes since last release ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael + * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael Zimmerman) + * 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) + + * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the + destination field. + + * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", + rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + + * 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) + 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) + * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - * When -e is specified along with an rsyncd url, the client should - get a warning but it should not be treated as an error. (Bill - Nottingham) + * 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 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) - http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62489 + * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. + (Sviatoslav Sviridov) INTERNAL: @@ -29,3 +65,5 @@ rsync changes since last release * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. + (Jos Backus)