X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/8f694072a524ab0f7edc4c3402fb5fc41ecbfa5e..f9c6b3e7d622d6e3960faec80a382bbef99d7a8c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 594a2571..d4c613d6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,81 +1,78 @@ -rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :) -*- indented-text -*- +NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.2: - ANNOUNCEMENTS - - * Martin Pool is now a co-maintainer. - - NEW FEATURES - - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging + BUG FIXES: - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and + multiple source directories were specified. - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. + - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories + over and over again (generating warnings along the way). - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also - includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the - Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH - portability project, and OpenBSD. + - 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. - ENHANCEMENTS + - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will + no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was + specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to + work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders + don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. + - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy + (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. + - 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. - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves + the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. + - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the + batch-processing options. - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. + ENHANCEMENTS: - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory + onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it + as matching a normal directory from the sender. - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. + - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) + and documented all these options in the man page. - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. + - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less + bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of + values. - BUG FIXES: + - 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. - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. + - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. + INTERNAL: - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory + and made the code easier to maintain. - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling + rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) + BUILD CHANGES: - PLATFORMS: + - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, + including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the + proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated). - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - TESTING: + - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. + - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir (and some accepted + ones were removed as well).