X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/da1b6eeaf2970757e19fa8df14ca6b0f50ffcdb7..37802f40dcbe8956ba8ee3bfbddf10c60f94c209:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 64ff110d..4548af15 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - - 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). + - The --stats output will contain 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). + (Requires protocol 29.) BUG FIXES: @@ -18,6 +19,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude file). + - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions changes in + directories and it now includes the full update information that + would be output without --dry-run at higher levels of verbosity. + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination that already exists in the --backup-dir. @@ -50,6 +55,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a file that was put into the partial-dir. + - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. + + - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a + server sender. + + - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the + client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a + compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure + if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have + exited with an error for large files). + + - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not + being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error + about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was + specified). + + - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options + by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can @@ -61,7 +85,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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. + really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The + default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via + --delete-before. + + - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: + Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created + on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new + algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time. - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except that it includes copies of identical files. @@ -78,18 +109,20 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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 + to specify both a default value for the daemon side and 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.) + the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option + will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. - 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. + --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol + 29.) - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories without recursion. @@ -97,13 +130,17 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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). + non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a + modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified + manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over + a remote-shell connection. - 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. + modified time for directories when --times was specified. This + option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of + the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in + an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling @@ -111,13 +148,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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. + versions. (Protocol 29 needed for full filter-rule support, but + backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol 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. + - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is + reduced. + + - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This + setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) + + - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index + they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since + that would indicate that something had gone very wrong). + SUPPORT FILES: - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some @@ -139,13 +187,67 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. + - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. + INTERNAL: - - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over + - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over the socket. - - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. + - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so + that it is easier to maintain. + + - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for + consistency and proper size. + + - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + + - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. + + - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't + find a variable with at least 32 bits. + + PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: + + - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after + each index integer indicating what kind of basis file is being used + for the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines). + + - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This + means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes + (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C + option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of + filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older + transfer scenarios). + + - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the + subdir names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and + it always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in + the list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between + directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) + + - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request + is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and + the new --list-only option is enabled. + + - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), + they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to + build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the + wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). + + - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA + excludes), a client sender will still initiate a send of the filter + rules to the receiver, but it only includes those rules that are + receiver-specific. Older protocols used to omit the sending of + excludes in this situation (since there were no receiver-specific + rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). + + - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs + option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the + --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + + - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.