X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/bd1574b2084d846e46a3ed2ae31c032bb4edfb93..e80876700c49d5465df9e4b7c3e2f985eb137b8d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f3be0cd..50e12ac1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,68 +1,109 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will + once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - 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 in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and - the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be - terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. + - 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.) - - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will - no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was - specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to - work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders - don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) + - 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. - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + - 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). - - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config - items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module - allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip + trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. + - 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. - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. + - 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). - ENHANCEMENTS: - - - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. - - - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. + - 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. - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. + - 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). - - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. + - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from + the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - INTERNAL: + - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of + the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. + - 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). - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + - 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. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created + directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated). + - 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. + + - 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.) + + - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in + the daemon's config file. + + - 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.) + + - 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. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + - 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. + + - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. + - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have + consistent opening comments.