X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8c57732324fb211bc6c3cb0cb5ea2ecb247c8ff2..bdedced84b7f446f818efd4d25b8985285a50009:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 16b614fc..debed383 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,306 +1,164 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: OUTPUT CHANGES: - - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about - it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only - sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. + - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- + escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is + output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash + is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which + can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. - - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both - sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are - being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). - (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) + - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would + output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. - - 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: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. - - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list - of changes that would be output without --dry-run. + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - 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.) + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it + as a "directory", not a "file". - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect - symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed. + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. - - 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. + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. - - 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. + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. - - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a - relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a - file that was put into the partial-dir. + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. - - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. - - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a - server sender. + - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not + trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". - - 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 (e.g. rsync might have - exited with an error for large files). + - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't + handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. - - 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 - properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. + - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when + --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing + slash. - - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not - being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about - the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was - specified). + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. - - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options - (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, - there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). + - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause + the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal + messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) - - 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. (Requires protocol 29.) + - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been + specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the + destination). - ENHANCEMENTS: + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no + transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't + delete anything. - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - 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 - transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the - default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as - --delete-before (that 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. - - - 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 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 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 - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option - will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. - - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - 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.) - - - 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 - 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 - (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, - 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 - 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 - the patches dir.) - - - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter - rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling - that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory - filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). - This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing - include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older - versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but - backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions. - (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) - - - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into - a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the - --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This - makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. - - - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is - reduced. - - - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This - setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) - - - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index - they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a - non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone - very wrong). - - - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a - more detailed list of what files changed in any way and how they - changed. The effect is the same as specifying a --log-format of - "%i %n%L" (see the rsyncd.conf manpage). Works with --dry-run too. - - - Added the --fuzzy option, which attempts to find a basis file for a - file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm - only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but - it does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the - file was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy - name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because - it needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir - and enhanced.) - - - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files - between systems. - - - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to - avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync - to detach. - - - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. - - SUPPORT FILES: - - - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will - transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into - place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when - pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to - effect its update. - - - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the - /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will - exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The - excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly - anchored. - - - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make - a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test - for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and - the receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. - - - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is my version of Joe Smith's - restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain - rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. - INTERNAL: + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. - - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over - the socket. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so - that it is easier to maintain. + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for - consistency and proper size. + - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer + (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now + periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver + can get started on the files sooner rather than later. - - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. - - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, + password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't - find a variable with at least 32 bits. + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). - - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only - variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the - read-only side can succeed. + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is + better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a + daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was + necessary to see the error on stderr). - PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: + - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" + to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. - - 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, which makes the outputting of the - information more consistent and less prone to screen corruption (it - resorts to the old-style outputting of generator-created change- - messages for older protocol versions). + - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the + support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options + when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of + other similar options being added at some point). - - 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). + INTERNAL: - - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This - means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes - (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C - option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of - filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older - transfer scenarios). + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better + discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages. - - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir - names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it - always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the - list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between - directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) + - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. - - 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 included in the options. + - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help + someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. - - 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). + BUILD CHANGES: - - 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. + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - - 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 - --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - BUILD CHANGES: + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. - - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that + enables the optional copying of extended attributes.