X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/86e2f445f7febc3f7096e6c31d1be338fcceba4e..e80876700c49d5465df9e4b7c3e2f985eb137b8d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4db1d717..50e12ac1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,192 +1,109 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: - - OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output): - - - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the - term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If - you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script - should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the - indicator that the verbose output is over. - - - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change - "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received". - - - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with - each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that - a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be - output). +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the - checksums. + - 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. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - 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 bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and - the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be - terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. + - 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. - - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed - data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis - file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer - retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified. - (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be - older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and - older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read - error.) + - 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). - - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option - is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the - original file in the process). + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + - 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. - - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config - items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module - allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + - 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). - - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a - phase. + - 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. - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. + - 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). - - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error - for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file - "vanished". + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling - the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks - option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior. + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as - refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used - to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send - the message). + - 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). - - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to - the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to - be daemon-only). + - 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. - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. - - - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to - implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error - that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 - implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might - suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will - help). - - - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error - messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just - die with a socket-write error). - - - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are - hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure - that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird - rename() behavior). - - - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when - the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits. + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to - (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over- - writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial - - - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory - onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it - as matching a normal directory from the sender. - - - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination - file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data - in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there - are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data). - Use only when needed (see the man page for more details). - - - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file. - - - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. - - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. - - - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and - SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. - - - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - - - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler, - fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer - sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different - systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier - to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data - file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via - stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum- - seed for all batch processing has been removed. - - - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its - presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to - authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get - if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real - error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module - names. - - - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match - option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names. - - INTERNAL: - - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. - - - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has - a lot of args. - - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. - - - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both - IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file - handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of - them). - - - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to - a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size. - - - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). - - BUILD CHANGES: - - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. - - - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be - updated). - - - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip - target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems - have $STRIP set in the environment. - - - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. + - 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. + + - 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.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - 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.) + + - 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. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + - 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. - - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted - ones were removed. + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.