X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b1b04fcdd482451f149d3511baf909553d26cd3b..a72885e042aa9564de3f1695754e9803e4a36c9c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 30c413e5..f656a538 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,10 +2,23 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.6: + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of + clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of + characters is also different (to remove an unused field). + 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 the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this + error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting + it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors). + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the permissions without recreating the file. @@ -31,50 +44,133 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - 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. + + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. + + - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears + the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. + + - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." + suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now + reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. + + - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with + --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able + to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + + - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with + --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during). + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). + - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does + not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and + block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still + requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D. + + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that + are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files). - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the transfer. - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress). + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size. + - 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). + + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - 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. + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible). + + - 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 would only + 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 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. - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to + be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will - now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow + a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all + files copied to and from the daemon. + + - 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 the fifth file + to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of + a total of 9999. + + - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing + stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the + dir (dir/** would not match the dir). + + - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync + discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it + easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with + just the directories needed to hold the resulting files. + + - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes + unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all + the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the + client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only + needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. + + - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- user + activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices + to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also + useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the + receiving rsync isn't being run as root. + + - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP + options used to contact a daemon rsync. + + - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir + setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when + --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight). - Some minor documentation improvements. - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. + - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files + into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files. + INTERNAL: - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where @@ -89,9 +185,21 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be + supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less + string copying. + + - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and + replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the + output going to the terminal. + + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - 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. + - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file + such as ~/.popt.