X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/acaadb55c13410108850bbc26d35f9a82a5024c6..1a85a969a7f1283e90e289c686d2d4fd2d78ff80:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 69ab6e91..ee0661ba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,67 +1,81 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.7: +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.) + + - 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. BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any - wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative - is in effect. + - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make + it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. - - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the - receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call - never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about - the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as - that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position - beyond the failed read's data. + - 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 a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored - in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by - init). + - 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. - - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit - instead of silently ignoring the option. + - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the + receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user- + specified files generates an error). - - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as - fifos) from being linked. + - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. - - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at - configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest - creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. + - 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), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and + deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type. - ENHANCEMENTS: + - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file + ownership during the copy. - - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the - error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. + - 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). - - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the - message. + - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to + allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. - - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options. + - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf + file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a + daemon that was not run by a super-user. - - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex - that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. + EXTRAS: - - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the - attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) - taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. + - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes + it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. - DEVELOPER RELATED: + - 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. - - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable - io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also - elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) - compatibility functions. + - Added more conditional debug output. - - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential - buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code. + - 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 acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment + handling. - - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of - a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its - actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present). + - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.