X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/bac7259081ed93f5e25adb890c534da4700ef395..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d724e4a6..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,160 +1,127 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.4: - - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- - escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is - output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash - is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which - can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. - - - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would - output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit - status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do - this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed - to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we - now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and - exit with the appropriate exit status. +Changes since 2.6.6: 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 a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). - - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - - 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. + - 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. - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. + - 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. - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - 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 the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it - as a "directory", not a "file". + - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any - generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to - the file by the destination filename. + - 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). - - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. + - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle + the exit status properly and generate a better error. - - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked - to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest - of the cluster. + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. - - 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. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and - sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not - trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. - - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't - handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when - --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing - slash. + - 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). - - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - - 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 lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - 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). + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). - - 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. + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. - - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the - "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + - 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.) - - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno - for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. + - 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). - ENHANCEMENTS: + - 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 --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. This allows you to divert all - the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you - are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx - - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer - (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now - periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver - can get started on the files sooner rather than later. + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - 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.) + - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will + now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - - 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). + - 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. - - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall - back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is - better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a - daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was - necessary to see the error on stderr). + - 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. - - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" - to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the - support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options - when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of - other similar options being added at some point). + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. INTERNAL: - - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better - discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages. - - - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. - - - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help - someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. - - BUILD CHANGES: + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining + the VA_COPY macro. - - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they - refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. - - 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. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + - 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. - - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that - enables the optional copying of extended attributes.