X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/de31639fffcb303ae41aa727e0633d488863d1de..4ce838e1f107239f1b18f3f8cd7c7fbab65e0bd5:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8d1fbeff..41432998 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,179 +1,79 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.0: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 28 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.3: - ENHANCEMENTS: + BUG FIXES: - * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of data over - the socket (see the INTERNAL section for details). + - 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). - * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a - "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. - (Bardur Arantsson) + - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination + that already exists in the --backup-dir. - * The --progress output now mentions how far along in the - transfer we are, including both a count of files transferred - and a percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. - It also shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining- - transfer-time values. + - 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 picked up from the cygwin package.) - * The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH - to override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. + - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is + the sender, and the file-list is large. - * Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the - ones that got applied, and rebuilt the rest. + - 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. - BUG FIXES: + - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + + - 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. + + - 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. + + - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to + backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. + + 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 --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.) - * When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) - or --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even - if the referent file is on a different filesystem. - - * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user - when (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o - was specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be - used on the destination and -g was specified. + - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might - cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to - get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). - - * We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start - of each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted - transfer with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter - temp file than the current basis file when no new data has been - transfered over the wire for that file. + - 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. - * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian - machines. (Jay Fenlason) + - 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. - * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6". + - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) - * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source 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. - * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a - directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one - directory (and not all following directories too). The - items are also now properly word-split and parsed without - any +/- prefix munging. - - * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER - part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' - is used to find the HOST, not the first). - - * Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root - users: (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't - have a name for (it would previously skip changing the group - on any files in that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, - rsync no longer attempts to set groups that the user doesn't - have the permission to set. - - * Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file. - - * Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any - mount-point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal - (in that it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of - the mount-point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped - mount of the original filesystem could get discovered in a - subdir we should be ignoring. - - * Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename - when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names - that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). - - * Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with - or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as - --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative - one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless. - Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the - module's base dir when chroot is not enabled. - - * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with - sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). - - * Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync - versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without - telling us that --backup-dir was specified. - - * The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell - process now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix - for systems that have a length field in their socket structs. - - * Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when - sending files to an rsync daemon. - - INTERNAL: - - * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty - large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) - - * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made - some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file - sets. - - * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent. - - * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. - (J.W. Schultz) - - * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds - up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison) - - * The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the - group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This - prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new - hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically - earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the - receiving side. - - * Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 - (2.3.0 released 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for - protocols less than 25 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001) - (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, severally) - - * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). - - * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). - - * Less memory is used when --checksum is specified. - - * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings). - - * The generator is now better about not modifying the file list - during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory - bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory). - Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared, - resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving - side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions - are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way - for the entire transfer. - - * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use - allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large file- - sets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) - - * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes - (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe - and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to - have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing - messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through - the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected - hard-link messages and verbose --stats output). - - * The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now - handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over - the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. - - * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and - a little more optimized. + - 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. - * The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as - separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28). - Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit - number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more - compatible with their 32-bit brethren. Note that optimizations - in the binary protocol often sends the device data using fewer - bytes than before, even though more precision is now available. + BUILD CHANGES: - * Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code - made things clearer, simpler, and more efficient. + - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().