X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/eae4e1f9f0a50863ec4d9279fafaefca4643722d..398612ba07574d84e51380513c7c3424ac84eef0:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 423bd005..6e3fb0bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,91 +1,55 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.2: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and - multiple source directories were specified. + - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any + wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative + is in effect. - - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories - over and over again (generating warnings along the way). + - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the + receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call + never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about + the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel). - - 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. + - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as + that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position + beyond the failed read's data. - - 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.) + - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored + in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by + init). - - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy - (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy). + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. - - 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. - - - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a - phase. - - - 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. + - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at + configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest + creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system. 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. - - - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less - bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of - values. - - - 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 the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users. - - 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. + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - BUILD CHANGES: + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. - - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files, - including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h. + - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex + that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines. - - 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). + - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the + attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info) + taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command. DEVELOPER RELATED: - - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit. + - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) + compatibility functions. - - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted - ones were removed. + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. + - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of + a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its + actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).