X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b2501ccf123a42ff25a8853fb59f09986dac60be..8cd3c6dccf36975fa25c8bcae5e7d74f1fde5a28:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e6cae1c..ac1994bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,48 +1,136 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.7: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.0: + + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the + itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, + and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish + between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a + revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a + new device number, etc.). 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. + - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was + run without specifying a --config=FILE option. + + - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL. + + - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to + not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date. + + - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs. + + - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files. + + - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted: + a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure. + + - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom + CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building + of rounding.h fails. + + - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon. + + - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver + that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on + the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse + protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a + file) was already working. + + - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that + can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing, + --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set. + + - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right + modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. + + - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the + exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as + if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the + user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages + for these non-user-initiated rules. + + - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory + handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. - - 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). + - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling. - - 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. + - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved. - - 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). + - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. - - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit - instead of silently ignoring the option. + - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no + longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to- + date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions, + ownership, xattrs, etc.). + + - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs) + because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, + it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + + - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could + make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path. + + - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support + wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs). + + - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs. + + - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that + rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server). ENHANCEMENTS: - - 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 --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to + ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than + having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually). + + - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file + listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the + --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue. + + - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides. - - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the - message. + - Improved the documentation of the --append option. - - 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. + - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon + parameters. - - 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. + INTERNAL: + + - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I + sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release). + + - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper + normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should + not have caused problems, though.) + + - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the + "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory + churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned + args. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about + unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of + the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. + + - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the + included popt code should be used or not. + + - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command + outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made + the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should + expect hard-linked symlinks or not. + + - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed. + + - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the + rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file. - - 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). + - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory + structure.