X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/da1b6eeaf2970757e19fa8df14ca6b0f50ffcdb7..2dfe1c37ada920f0e66a0dbd1147986dcc533018:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 64ff110d..6ac8cf17 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,151 +1,181 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: OUTPUT CHANGES: - - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about - it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only - sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. + - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- + escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is + output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash + is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which + can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. + + - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would + output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. - - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if - both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files - are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). - BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. + + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash). + + - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the + write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this + only caused an annoying warning message). + + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. + + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. + + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). + + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it + as a "directory", not a "file". - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove + the mount-point dir. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not + trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". - - 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. + - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't + handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. - - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time - rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. + - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when + --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing + slash. - - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a - relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a - file that was put into the partial-dir. + - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then + re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive + (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a + trailing slash. + + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + + - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause + the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal + messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + + - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if + "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent + dir of the destination). + + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no + transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't + delete anything. + + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for + compatibility with OS variations). ENHANCEMENTS: - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - - - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files - from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the - transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the - default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the - --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so - an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, - really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. - - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. - - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir and enhanced.) - - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) - - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. - - - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, - --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. - - - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories - without recursion. - - - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to - put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any - option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a - non-recursive listing). - - - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the - modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a - really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through - the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory - times. - - - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter - rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling - that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory - filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). - This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing - include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older - versions. - - - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into - a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the - --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This - makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. - - SUPPORT FILES: - - - 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 and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. - - - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and - translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount - points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made - relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. - - - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of - all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data - corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the - receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. - - - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync - perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands - can be run by an ssh invocation. + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). + + - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer + (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now + periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver + can get started on the files sooner rather than later. + + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. + + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user, + password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!) + + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). + + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better + than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a + daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was + necessary to see the error on stderr). + + - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" + instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a + non-daemon transfer). + + - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the + support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options + when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of + other similar options being added at some point). INTERNAL: - - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over - the socket. + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to + better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in + messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some + locales). + + - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. - - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. + - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help + someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. BUILD CHANGES: - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of + setlocale() in the binary. + + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + + - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. + + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. + + - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell + (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release. + + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + + - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch + that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.