X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/7c329ec72c3ac92b10970fd0eb0573bd2af920de..3c987ee956c98093d8033499d79a3fb558578f1b:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e2013241..24d6e814 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,13 +8,27 @@ Changes since 2.6.7: wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative is in effect. + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). + ENHANCEMENTS: + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. + - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines. + - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. + DEVELOPER RELATED: + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its - actions to a file (which is only supported by a daemon at present). + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).