X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/d409c6ac9c0f3c6727cab72cbf8d68d355afbd75..cb197514d99d17dc3a1ce26ff8918d63307d75e4:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48713a35..ee0661ba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,86 +1,81 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +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: - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. - - - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination, - we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination - hostspec as a filename. - - - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with - permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when - the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file. - - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. - - - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to - require at least -vv for the error to be seen). - - - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle - the exit status properly and generate a better error. + - 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 --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the - preservation of attributes on symlinks. + - 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 two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" - and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a - per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode - transfer. + - 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. - - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in - the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs - should start. For example, if you specify a source path of - rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only - replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing - dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). + - 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 some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override - unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka - "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of - file ownership that is implied by -a. + - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes. - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. + - 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. - - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will - now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file + ownership during the copy. - - Some minor documentation improvements. + - 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). - - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. + - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to + allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled. - INTERNAL: + - 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. - - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where - MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + EXTRAS: - - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit - with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer. + - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes + it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory. - - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining - the VA_COPY macro. + - 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: - - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO - configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of - the newly patched feature. + - 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. + + - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment + handling. + - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.