X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/c3131af90ae78cdb0250eb3a0ea6047ed26e2b61..b0da4b23a0802fef22390ae21390968689e93033:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cdd352d1..f3b34f66 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks + that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + + - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the + referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the + user and group of a symlink. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can @@ -56,6 +63,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the partial file. + - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some + files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at + once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses + --link-dest. + BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().