X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/7b97c388982665f88d059c8473ae57691d1f61ef..7f2a1f651e6db7483bcb3d2678dcb60cc4e54582:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f44920d9..b7ad4ffc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) - - The "%o" (operation) value now has a third value besides "send" and - "recv": "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). This changes - the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. + - The "%o" (operation) log format now has a third value (besides "send" + and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). This + changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. BUG FIXES: @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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 + - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the Cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) + mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is the sender, and the file-list is large. @@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed. - - 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. + - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will + affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try + to set the user and group of a symlink. - 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. @@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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 + if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have exited with an error for large files). - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior - versions of rsync would sometimes fail to to decompress the data + versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress - output without overlapping it. + output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) ENHANCEMENTS: @@ -94,33 +94,31 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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 + from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as - --delete-before (this is the default --delete-WHEN option that will - be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without a - --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so an - rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any + --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that + will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without + a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so + an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any file-deleting options. - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new - algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time. + algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files + inside the transfer). - - 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 support for specifying multiple --compare-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 (e.g. a hang or an abort) when a client connects. + cause problems when a client connects (e.g. a hang or an abort). - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value @@ -134,14 +132,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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. (Requires protocol - 29.) + - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest and + --link-dest. (Requires protocol 29.) - 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 + - 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 internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically @@ -149,8 +146,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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 + - 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. (Promoted from @@ -255,13 +252,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when - dirs and symlinks have changed (resorting to the old-style outputting - of local change-messages for older protocols). + dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), + which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and + less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the + sender is now outputting all the file-change info). - - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after - the flag-word indicating what kind of basis file is being used for - the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines). This information is used - to optimize the transfer when the basis file is not the destination. + - If --inplace is specified, the generator flags any transfer that is + using an alternate basis file so that the sender can use the entire + file in the rsync algorithm (unlike a normal --inplace update). - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes @@ -277,23 +275,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request - is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and - the new --list-only option is encluded in the options sent over the - socket. + is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and + the new --list-only option is included in the options. - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). - - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA - excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the filter - rules to the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of - excludes in this situation since there were no receiver-specific - rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with - all the filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the - other side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule - list is often empty in this scenario. + - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter excludes, a + client sender will now initiate a send of the filter rules to the + receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in + this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that + survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the + filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other + side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list + is often empty in this scenario. - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the