X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8778174936e4f74a1eb5d2c4fe70583a723a435f..30e50494bbb057d4191e4636b963c6b7b0770ece:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a285564b..db03fc11 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,167 +1,66 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the - files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for + matching items. - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. + - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by + a signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not + being able to get the exit status from the script. - - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, - we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination - hostspec as a filename. + - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the + filter rules. - - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with - permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when - the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. - - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. - - - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to - require at least -vv for the error to be seen). - - - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle - the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, - --link-dest, or --compare-dest. - - - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files - that have a path component containing a slash. - - - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears - the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. - - - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." - suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now - reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. - - - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with - --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being - able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" + files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the + copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does - not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and - block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still - requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still infers -D. - - - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the - transfer. - - - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size - to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples - of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). - - - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the - --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - - - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the - preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when - possible). - - - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using - --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - - - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" - and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a - per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode - transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables - that are set with information about the transfer.) - - - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in - the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs - should start. For example, if you specify a source path of - rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only - replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing - dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). - - - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override - unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka - "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of - file ownership that is implied by -a. - - - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions - to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will - now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - - - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and - without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure - that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. - - - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to - better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: - "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file - to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of - a total of 9999. - - - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 - trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the - content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). - - - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes - unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without - all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, - the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote - rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. - - - Some minor documentation improvements. - - - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. + - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to + delete files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate + delete pass. + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the + receiving side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you + can pull from an older rsync with this option, but pushing to an + older rsync will generate an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 + value to an older rsync client, or it will be silently ignored.* + + - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and + receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use + of a hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently + convey to the receiver what files are linked together. This reduces + the amount of data sent over the socket by a considerable margin, and + moves the in-memory storage of the device+inode information from the + receiving side (for protocols < 30) to the sending side (note that + older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on both + sides). INTERNAL: - - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where - MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. - - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit - with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. - - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining - the VA_COPY macro. + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory - recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. - - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to - be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to - do less string copying. + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and - replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all - the output going to the terminal. - - - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO - configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of - the newly patched feature. - + - ...