X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/9f639210ca71c548b76d311d826899ed36f98372..e35d9f2d6d5f1cb1f87736748d5249ce18b10da0:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 47433c67..81339ae6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,93 +1,200 @@ -rsync changes since last release +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +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: + + - 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 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). + + - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle + the exit status properly and generate a better error. + + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. + + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. + + - 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. + + - 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: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the - specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned) - server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such - as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul) + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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). - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - * Set the default value of --modify-window to 1 on Cygwin. (Lapo - Luchini) + - 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.) - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) + - 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). - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) + - 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. - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not - in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents - timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen) + - Added the "incoming chmod" daemon option to allow a module to specify + what permissions changes should be applied to all files copied to the + daemon. - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will + now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that - contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file - list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child - processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing - an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra) + - 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). - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - 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. - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + - 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. - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + - 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. - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - 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. INTERNAL: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - 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. - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + - 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. - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - 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. - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file + such as ~/.popt.