X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/a165be754b0a07da0ab0bd6a4fcc07b2f2944c67..554dc122f271fc361b963067fa3d80084fd7ca91:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ac1994bc..4b38c7c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,136 +1,136 @@ -NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 30 (unchanged) -Changes since 3.0.0: - - NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: - - - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the - itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, - and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish - between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a - revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a - new device number, etc.). +NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 31 (changed) +Changes since 3.0.4: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the + --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's + "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including + --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping + or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is + unchanged by default.) When some level of human-readable output is + enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output + is increased. + + - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was + shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", + both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file + size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when + incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used + instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, + letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still + be increasing as new files are found. + + - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created + (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for + protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to + follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount + list broken down by type. BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was - run without specifying a --config=FILE option. - - - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. - - - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to - not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date. - - - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. - - - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. + - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make + it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. - - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: - a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. + - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte + character to get translated incorrectly. - - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom - CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building - of rounding.h fails. + - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should + help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting + abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly + closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected. - - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver - that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on - the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse - protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a - file) was already working. + - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful + for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option. - - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that - can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing, - --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set. + - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained + control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output + using --info=progress2. - - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right - modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. + - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the + debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket + protocol. - - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the - exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as - if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the - user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages - for these non-user-initiated rules. + - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to + either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are + missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files + generates an error). - - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory - handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. + - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. - - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling. + - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file + ownership during the copy. - - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved. + - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the + MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was + specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). - - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. + - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to + allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. - - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no - longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to- - date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions, - ownership, xattrs, etc.). + - Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's + config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the + specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the + daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid + values, even when not run by a super-user. - - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs) - because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, - it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file + (using %VAR% references). - - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could - make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path. + - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file, + the update should now be done in an atomic manner. - - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support - wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs). + - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only + sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used). - - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. + - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the + upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic. - - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that - rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). + - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times. - ENHANCEMENTS: + - Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings. - - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to - ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than - having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually). + - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow + the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden. - - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file - listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the - --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue. + - Added some Solaris xattr code. - - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. + EXTRAS: - - Improved the documentation of the --append option. + - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes + it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. - - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon - parameters. + - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which + makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on + passwd/group files from another machine. INTERNAL: - - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I - sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release). + - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads + over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was + changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket). - - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper - normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should - not have caused problems, though.) + - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for + files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more + parallel manner. - - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the - "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory - churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned - args. + - A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value + so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31). - DEVELOPER RELATED: + - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to + read better, and do better sanity checking. - - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about - unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of - the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. + - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather + than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. - - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the - included popt code should be used or not. + - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment + handling. - - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command - outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made - the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should - expect hard-linked symlinks or not. + - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code. - - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed. - - - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the - rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory - structure. + - Added more conditional debug output.