X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/c2b47e31a5f9bdff956bd818eb6b826e377a99b9..cb197514d99d17dc3a1ce26ff8918d63307d75e4:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7c929ecb..ee0661ba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,112 +1,81 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.8: +NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 31 (changed) +Changes since 3.0.4: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the + --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's + "log format" parameter and related command-line options (including + --out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping + or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is + unchanged by default.) + + - The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was + shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk", + both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file + size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when + incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used + instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done, + letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still + be increasing as new files are found. BUG FIXES: - - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will - once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - - - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer - sanitizes the symlink target strings (by default). This means that each - symlink's value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink - info intact. Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any - dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are - manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top - of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the - same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a - potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the - module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting. - - - 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 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 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). - - - 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 the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - is specified. - - - 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. - - - 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 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. - - - 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). - - - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from - the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - - - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of - the filesystem with --relative enabled. + - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make + it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error. ENHANCEMENTS: - - 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 "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style - tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied - regardless of how "use chroot" is set. - - - 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. + - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful + for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option. + + - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained + control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output + using --info=progress2. + + - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the + receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user- + specified files generates an error). + + - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. + + - Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created + (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for + protocol 31), and 3) to follow the file-count, created-count, and + deleted-count with a break-out list of each count by type. + + - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file + ownership during the copy. + + - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the + MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was + specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect). + + - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to + allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. + + - Added a way for supplementary groups to be specified in the rsyncd.conf + file. Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a + daemon that was not run by a super-user. + + EXTRAS: + + - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes + it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. + + - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which + makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on + passwd/group files from another machine. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - 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. + - Added more conditional debug output. + + - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather + than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion. - - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. + - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment + handling. - - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have - consistent opening comments. + - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.