X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/eae4e1f9f0a50863ec4d9279fafaefca4643722d..0417c34e2d641cbac292ba5cf8a619249c87d4e3:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 423bd005..9debef79 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,91 +1,71 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the + permissions without recreating the file. - - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and - the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be - terminated by a newline for their content to be read in. + - 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. - - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will - no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was - specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to - work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders - don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.) + - 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. - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output + algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. - - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config - items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module - allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion. + - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() + fails. - - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a - phase. + - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves - the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS. - - - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error - for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file - "vanished". - - - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as - refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used - to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send - the message). - - - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the - batch-processing options. + - 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. ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory - onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it - as matching a normal directory from the sender. - - - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file. - - - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6) - and documented all these options in the man page. + - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files + that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new + files). - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. + - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the + preservation of attributes on symlinks. - - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and - SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address. + - 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 --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. + - 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). - INTERNAL: - - - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory - and made the code easier to maintain. - - - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling - rprintf() with strerror() as an arg. + - 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. - BUILD CHANGES: + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, + which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the - proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be - updated). + - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - DEVELOPER RELATED: - - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + INTERNAL: - - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted - ones were removed. + - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where + MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin). + - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit + with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.