X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8c57732324fb211bc6c3cb0cb5ea2ecb247c8ff2..dd18526e5bb61852016158b9eaacc4f0c0d00c20:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 16b614fc..edbd15ff 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -13,9 +13,20 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) - - 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. + - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape 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. + + - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now + avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances. + As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer + items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to + the transfer with --verbose being the equivalent of a --log-format of + '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any symlink info). If the log + output must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time + the name is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was + specified (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the + full --log-format output will come after). BUG FIXES: @@ -36,6 +47,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is the sender, and the file-list is large. + - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator + might accidentally merge a message from the receiver into the + middle of a multiplexed packet of data that is waiting for the + socket to allow it to flush. + - 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. @@ -58,6 +74,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a file that was put into the partial-dir. + - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is + enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate + backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file). + - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a @@ -72,7 +92,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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 + versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not @@ -88,16 +108,37 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) + - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while + the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic + (looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time + touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that + should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to + make progress. (Requires protocol 29.) + + - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the + items in the transfer since the size might be undefined on some OSes. + + - Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it + back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and + the daemon was the receiver. + + - The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differred in + (the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR. + + - When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed + the changed-report output for the directory so that we don't report + an identical directory as changed. + ENHANCEMENTS: - 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 + from 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 + --delete-before (and 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 @@ -106,14 +147,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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. + algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files + inside the transfer). - - 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 support for specifying multiple --compare-dest or --link-dest + options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the patches dir + and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.) - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) @@ -134,14 +173,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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.) + - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest and + --link-dest. (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 + - 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 @@ -194,11 +232,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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.) + and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.) - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files between systems. + - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal + enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6 + literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.) + - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync to detach. @@ -255,14 +297,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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). - - - 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). + dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), + which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and + less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the + sender is now outputting all the file-change info). + + - If a file is being hard-linked, the appropriate bit is enabled in + the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately + follows in vstring format (see below). + + - If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the + appropriate bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single-byte + follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that + indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the name of the match + immediately follows in vstring format. A vstring is a variable + length string that has its size written prior to the string, and + no terminating null. If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length + is a single byte. If it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is + written as ((len >> 8) | 0x80) followed by (len % 0x100). - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes @@ -299,6 +351,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. + - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet + from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the + receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive + packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit + (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone). + BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().