X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/f7916cbf3f705664ad3037f945b23808af5b2865..f8db4a8ab4bef2846cb69d46707be6b9cebedd6d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f7ea48f3..4d7f332b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,178 +1,58 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED) +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.6: +Changes since 2.6.7: BUG FIXES: - - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the - files encountered during the delete scan (ouch). + - 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. - - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again. + - 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). - - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the - permissions without recreating the file. + - 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 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. + - 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). - - 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. + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. - - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output - algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data. + - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as + fifos) from being linked. - - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir() - fails. - - - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time. - - - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to - require at least -vv for the error to be seen). - - - 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. + - 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 the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does - not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and - block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still - requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D. - - - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files - that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new - files). - - - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the - transfer. - - - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive - 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). - - - 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. (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 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). + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - - 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. + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. - - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions - to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx + - 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. - - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, - which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. - - - 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 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. - - - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- - user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such - as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, - and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will - be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root. - - - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the - TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync. - - - Some minor documentation improvements. - - - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. - - INTERNAL: - - - 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. - - - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining - the VA_COPY macro. - - - 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. + - 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: - - 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. + - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) + compatibility functions. + + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. - - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file - such as ~/.popt. + - 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).