X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ae09fb1f9139fedd02680cceb953b4c96f52d468..f2ae9e8583d289ed876c3666bd533dba13ffbfb8:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8dfd62e2..31b1f96b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,32 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Protocol: 29 (changed) Changes since 2.6.3: + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about + it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only + sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. + + - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both + sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are + being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). + 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). + - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v). + It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv. + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination that already exists in the --backup-dir. - 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.) + mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is the sender, and the file-list is large. @@ -33,11 +46,49 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the user and group of a symlink. + - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time + rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. + + - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a + relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a + file that was put into the partial-dir. + + - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. + + - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a + server sender. + + - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the + client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a + compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure + if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have + exited with an error for large files). + + - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not + being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error + about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was + specified). + ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. + - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files + from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the + transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the + default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the + --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so + an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, + really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The + default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via + --delete-before. + + - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: + Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created + on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new + algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time. + - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except that it includes copies of identical files. @@ -53,16 +104,98 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value + to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) + the patches dir.) Also added "address". - 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 --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, + --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. + + - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories + without recursion. + + - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to + put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any + option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a + non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a + modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified + manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over + a remote-shell connection. + + - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the + modified time for directories when --times was specified. This + option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of + the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in + an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. + + - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter + rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling + that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory + filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). + This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing + include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older + versions. + + - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into + a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the + --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This + makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. + + - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is + reduced. + + - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This + setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) + + SUPPORT FILES: + + - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some + files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at + once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses + --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. + + - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and + translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount + points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made + relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. + + - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of + all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data + corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the + receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. + + - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync + perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands + can be run by an ssh invocation. + + - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. + + INTERNAL: + + - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over + the socket. + + - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so + that it is easier to maintain. + + - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for + consistency and proper size. + + - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + + - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. + + - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't + find a variable with at least 32 bits. + BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + + - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.