X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/b28a27e9e9ccae0dbd5084e74c0f2c801c566a57..142a5e7b8b128797db27c1a31af7d05c9cc4928e:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f49f189e..48484fbf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,65 +1,120 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: BUG FIXES: - - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did - not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the - rsyncd.conf file. + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for + matching items. - - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the - basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i - is in effect. + - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a + signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being + able to get the exit status from the script. - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. + - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the + filter rules. - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it + would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync. - - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete - processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a - newline. + - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" + files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the + copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer - to it as a "file". + - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains + and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this + option to control a remote shell's password prompt. + + - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination + directory are handled right when --perms is left off. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead - of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any - actual updating of the destination. + - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking + to another 3.0.0 version. This starts the transfer going more quickly + (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. + See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. + + - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a + 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is + the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with + the new incremental recursion mode. + + - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete + files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. + + - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need + to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new + acls.diff patch that will add that.) + + - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need + to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new + xattrs.diff patch that will add that.) + + - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve + all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. + There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon. + + - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from + one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make + this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If + compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild. If + you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can + specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the + --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, --enable-iconv=. is a + good choice. See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv + option's settings. + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving + side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an + older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate + an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client, + or it will be silently ignored.* + + - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and + receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a + hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the + receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data + sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more + data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information + to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving + side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept + the device+inode information on both sides). - - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped - characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output - using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". + INTERNAL: - - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include - some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, - password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). - - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that - it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we - really did expect the socket to close). + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. - INTERNAL: + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. + + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. + + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and + omitted the --server option. - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that - the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s - presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the + development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version + info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking + in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made + to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).