X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/e30b1fb8fd9fd5c560eaf3527702b027e257fa17..f97f6bcd3a87215885035d8688aecc60c420ec93:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a5f6260b..5a20de6f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,179 +1,69 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +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. - - - 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). - 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). - - - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v). - It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv. - - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. - - - 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.) - - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - 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. - - 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 case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - 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. - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - - 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. + - 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. - - 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 --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". - - 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. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. + - 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. - - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a - server sender. + - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped + characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output + using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". - - 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). + - 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.) - ENHANCEMENTS: + - 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). - - 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 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.) Also added "address". - - - 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). 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. 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. - - - 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. - - - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is - reduced. - - 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. + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally + silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). INTERNAL: - - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over - the socket. - - - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so - that it is easier to maintain. + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). - - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for - consistency and proper size. + BUILD CHANGES: - - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. - BUILD CHANGES: + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). - - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + - 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.