X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/879b6ad05c943aa552728d4b27620488ac1d3408..698bc16e87b0ac6b29668fe0df4f3fd6d41e4b67:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e8b87a3a..d1f62beb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) + Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. - Requesting a remote file list without specifying -r (--recursive) now sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r @@ -20,9 +21,40 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. + Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". + + - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a + symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also + allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has + the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's + hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. BUG FIXES: + - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon + config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these + options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, + --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. + + - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation + on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable + daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't + taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use + it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- + translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter + for full details. + + - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the + chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the + module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for + libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. + + - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the + rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the + --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option + was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated + source file. + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. @@ -80,6 +112,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at the end of the run about a partial transfer. + - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more + options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, + --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. + + - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now work properly (older + versions would update some files while writing the batch). + + - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken + symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks are used (the code + already handled this for --copy-links). + + - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. + ENHANCEMENTS: - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking @@ -112,7 +157,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, - acl-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches + ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches dir. - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is @@ -124,7 +169,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. - There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon. + There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make @@ -136,9 +181,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an explanation of the --iconv option's settings. + - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- + set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. + - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress. - + - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg The matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. @@ -167,6 +215,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. + - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. + --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory + that does not exist. + - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not that important). @@ -181,6 +233,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. + - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a + connection timeout for rsync daemon access. + - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. @@ -198,6 +253,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). + - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing + through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters @@ -218,6 +276,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and omitted the --server option. + - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than + the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new + categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing + an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be + transferred. + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older @@ -231,6 +295,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. + - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS + (though the old CVS repository still exists). Several maintenance + scripts were updated to work with git. + + - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The + autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the + normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all + generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the + "magic" configure script that now comes with rsync for its location). + + - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the + rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). + + - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a + complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. + - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is @@ -245,3 +325,6 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). + + - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change + in the 3.0.0 release.