X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/d409c6ac9c0f3c6727cab72cbf8d68d355afbd75..97b7bff4d654d9fc679b823d5550ccd9b8a312ad:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48713a35..bd6e1656 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files during the delete scan! + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the @@ -37,6 +40,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files). + - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the + transfer. + + - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive + rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress). + + - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size. + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks. @@ -57,12 +68,20 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership that is implied by -a. + - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions + to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + - 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. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. @@ -78,6 +97,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining the VA_COPY macro. + - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory + recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO