X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/ef3bb69ad88f6946169afe803bdf631a7250e3d4..82f0c63e8a94fc095d9b9507ad963a411625a0c7:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 93831548..3f01fb0c 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 @@ -41,9 +44,14 @@ 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 + 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). - - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size. + - 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. @@ -51,12 +59,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - 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).