X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/a60fdd63f4562a5da5990b388c4f4053d53dc618..8ee6adefe38a00af526ce15c51a24580bea0212c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fbc12404..70238e4c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,221 +1,71 @@ -NEWS for rsync version 2.6.0 -Protocol: 27 (changed) -Changes since version 2.5.7: - - ENHANCEMENTS: - - * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. - Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the - files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) - - * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol verison - 27. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). - The per-file checksum size is determined according - to an algorythm provided by Donovan Baarda which - reduces the probability of rsync algorithm - corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 - checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) - - * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary - unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. - - * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the - sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the - file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: BUG FIXES: - * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. - This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the - matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not - cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like - what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) - - - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. - For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. - - - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo). - - - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of - the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, - just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. - - - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched - against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if - there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" - would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as - "/foo-path/baz-bar" (for instance). - - * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now - properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the - user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) - - * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the - block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. - Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. - (Craig Barratt) - - * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in - mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit - counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for - file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) - - * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and - multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. - (Wayne Davison) - - * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. - - * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. - - * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more - consistent manner. - - * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) - - * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file - that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and - Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files - to not get backed up. - - * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. - - * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly - what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when - using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) - - * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing - special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or - --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the - same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a - regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and - readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated - files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) + - 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 + rsyncd.conf file. - INTERNAL: - - * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped - supporting. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) - - * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new - defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a - lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. - Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value - we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). - (Wayne Davison) + - 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 + is in effect. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7: -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.6: + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - SECURITY: + - 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. - * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul - Russell, Andrea Barisani) - - -NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release -Protocol: 26 (unchanged) -Changes since version 2.5.5: + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) - - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) - - * 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) - - * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the - destination field. - - * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-", - rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz) - - * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that - unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an - rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey) - - * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon - Middleton) - - * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow" - and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji) - - * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line - terminations. (J.W. Schultz) - - * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set. - (Dave Dykstra) - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) - - * 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) - - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) - - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) - - * 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) - - * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple - dups in a row. (Wayne Davison) - - * 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) + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely - broken. (Dave Dykstra) + - 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 "\\". - * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances. - (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie) + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, + password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories - when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt) + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). - * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara) + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally + silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). INTERNAL: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). - * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison) + BUILD CHANGES: - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison) + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus) + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). - * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this - means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green) + - 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.