X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/92739a0aa7e1a2173e28d6da65c22fc3a2c12184..a72885e042aa9564de3f1695754e9803e4a36c9c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2266ec17..f656a538 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,47 +1,205 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: +Changes since 2.6.6: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of + clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of + characters is also different (to remove an unused field). BUG FIXES: - - 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 - config file. + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + + - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this + error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting + it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors). + + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. + + - 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. + + - 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). - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. + - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle + the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - 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 - in in effect. + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). + - 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. - - 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. + - 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. + + - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with + --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during). ENHANCEMENTS: - - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped - characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output - using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". + - 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 implies -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 + + - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow + a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all + files copied to and from the daemon. + + - 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). + + - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync + discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it + easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with + just the directories needed to hold the resulting files. + + - 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. + + - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- user + activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices + to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also + useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the + receiving rsync isn't being run as root. + + - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP + options used to contact a daemon rsync. + + - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir + setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when + --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight). + + - Some minor documentation improvements. + + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. + + - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files + into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files. INTERNAL: - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. + + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + + - 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. + + - 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. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + - 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. - - 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. + - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file + such as ~/.popt.