X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b1a2f37a6ed3fb6d377960d4e62e5eceea279b3b..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f4749b1c..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,33 +1,127 @@ -rsync changes since last release +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: + + BUG FIXES: + + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. + + - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, + we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination + hostspec as a filename. + + - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with + permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when + the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. + + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. + + - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. + + - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. + + - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to + require at least -vv for the error to be seen). + + - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle + the exit status properly and generate a better error. + + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. ENHANCEMENTS: - * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison) + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael - Zimmerman) + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John - L. Allen, Martin Pool) + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). + + - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size + to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples + of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). - * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham) + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool) + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - * When -e is specified along with an rsyncd url, the client should - get a warning but it should not be treated as an error. (Bill - Nottingham) + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). - http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62489 + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. + + - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" + and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a + per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode + transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables + that are set with information about the transfer.) + + - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in + the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs + should start. For example, if you specify a source path of + rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only + replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing + dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). + + - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override + unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka + "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of + file ownership that is implied by -a. + + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx + + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. + + - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will + now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + + - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and + without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure + that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. + + - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to + better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: + "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred + file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. + + - Some minor documentation improvements. + + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. INTERNAL: - * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin - Pool, Nelson Beebe) + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. + + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: - * More test cases. (Martin Pool) + - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO + configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of + the newly patched feature. - * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. - (Jos Backus)