X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ae09fb1f9139fedd02680cceb953b4c96f52d468..99eba67585c79180be72ea10889ae7eec61f9034:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8dfd62e2..50e12ac1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,68 +1,109 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if + the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, + these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references + (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter + how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) + - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps + from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone + over and over again). - - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the - referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the - user and group of a symlink. + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. - ENHANCEMENTS: + - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). + + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. + + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. + + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. + + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir and enhanced.) + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer + command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.