X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ba64001df85b6bfed55ea96b4d73879f7fb26173..5fe857d4be39213787b19394743ac1b1e964a737:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b031a381..cf72e930 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the - receiving side. + receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove + the mount-point dir. - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. @@ -75,16 +76,31 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing slash. + - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then + re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive + (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a + trailing slash. + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been + specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the + destination). + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't delete anything. + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead @@ -98,6 +114,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver can get started on the files sooner rather than later. + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. + - 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.) @@ -135,6 +155,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + - Only define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they @@ -144,6 +166,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + - Configure no longer mentions the switch from rsh to ssh (for the + default remote shell) that occurred in 2.6.0. + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that