X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ef3bb69ad88f6946169afe803bdf631a7250e3d4..4e7d07c8d4c75f0fc4207f0d6058db99b61c2f17:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 93831548..58163016 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: BUG FIXES: + - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the + files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the @@ -31,6 +34,23 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle the exit status properly and generate a better error. + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. + + - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files + that have a path component containing a slash. + + - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears + the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. + + - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." + suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now + reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. + + - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with + --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being + able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files @@ -41,22 +61,34 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: transfer. - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress). + rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress). - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size. + - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size + to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples + of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). + + - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the + --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks. + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). + + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. + - 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. + transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables + that are set with information about the transfer.) - 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 + rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash). @@ -74,10 +106,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. + - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and + without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure + that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. + - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: - "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred - file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. + "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file + to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of + a total of 9999. + + - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 + trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the + content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). + + - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes + unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without + all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, + the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote + rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. - Some minor documentation improvements. @@ -97,6 +144,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to + be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to + do less string copying. + + - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and + replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all + the output going to the terminal. + + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO