X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/bac7259081ed93f5e25adb890c534da4700ef395..99eba67585c79180be72ea10889ae7eec61f9034:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d724e4a6..50e12ac1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,160 +1,109 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (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 2.6.8: 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 bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified - that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - - - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write - permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - - 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. - - - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after - processing. - - - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in - addition to its use in daemon mode). - - - 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. - - - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it - as a "directory", not a "file". + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - 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. + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if + the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, + these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references + (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter + how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. - - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the - generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. + - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent + directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the + generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should + also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from + the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client + process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was + receiving files.) - - 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 a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path + relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option + gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. - - 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. + - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the + destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell + when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). - - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and - sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not - trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't - handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. + - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a + chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps + from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone + over and over again). - - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when - --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing - slash. + - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: + it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used + to successfully update a destination file. - - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir + merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and + only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is + done for global include/excludes). - - 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.) + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - 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). + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - 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. + - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write + permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a + problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace + will not update a file that has no write permissions). - - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the - "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we + are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. - - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno - for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST. + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. 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. 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). - - - 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. - - - 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.) - - - 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 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 man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" - to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer. - - - 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). - - 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. + - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These + can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. + They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man + page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf + settings when starting a daemon. - - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help - someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. + - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing + it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an + alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) - BUILD CHANGES: + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. - - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented - rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now + deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all + non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already + up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that + was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind + a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. + (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and + still behaves in the same way as before.) - - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in + the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in + both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer + command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. - - 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. + - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to + make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. - - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that - enables the optional copying of extended attributes. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.