X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9be3ba223c72f3e193404f503f10acece5d646e7..c7b1a56b3d70fb91b20702f169ae1af9b68de8e9:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f885ab66..4cffa09a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,39 +1,125 @@ -rsync 2.5.3 (26 Jan 2002) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.2: - SECURITY FIXES: + BUG FIXES: - * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer - -- in some cases we were not sufficiently - careful about reading integers from the network. + - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and + multiple source directories were specified. - BUG FIXES: + - Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the + checksums. + + - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories + over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + + - 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. + + - 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.) + + - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option + is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the + original file in the process). + + - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy + (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). - * Fix possible string mangling in log files. + - 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. - * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets. + - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a + phase. - * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with - 64-bit dev_t or ino_t. + - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves + the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved. + - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error + for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file + "vanished". - * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135) + - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as + refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used + to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send + the message). + + - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to + the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to + be daemon-only). + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the + batch-processing options. + + - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to + implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error + that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6 + implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might + suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will + help). ENHANCEMENTS: - * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh - connection. + - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory + onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it + as matching a normal directory from the sender. + + - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. + + - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) + and documented all these options in the man page. + + - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less + bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of + values. + + - 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. + + - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. + + INTERNAL: + + - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory + and made the code easier to maintain. + + - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has + a lot of args. + + - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling + rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + + - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both + IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file + handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of + them). + + - Optimized away a loop in hash_search(). + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, + including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + + - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the + proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be + updated). + + - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip + target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems + have $STRIP set in the environment. + + - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that - support mallinfo(). + - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. - * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress - visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress, - rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the - file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.) + - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted + ones were removed. - * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental - but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus) - - * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with - Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)