X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/fbe2aba2e7c0e9836f57617e259d354cf956c56a..d90338cec6339cd72ad89372ea52055e670fb958:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e5372b6f..c18a7d8e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,67 +1,110 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 28 (unchanged) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: + + OUTPUT CHANGES: + + - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash- + escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is + output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash + is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which + should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when + appropriate). + + - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would + output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. BUG FIXES: - - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 - was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude - file). + - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did + not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the + rsyncd.conf file. - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash. - - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.) + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the + basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i + is in effect. - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when - necessary. + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete + processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a + newline. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer + to it as a "file". - - If the OS does not have lchown(), we no longer try to set the user - & group of a symlink (which would either fail or set the referent). + - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any + generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to + the file by the destination filename. - ENHANCEMENTS: + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created the destination directory yet. + + - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked + to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest + of the cluster. + + - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync + no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the + receiving side. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. + ENHANCEMENTS: - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. + - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead + of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or - --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the - patches dir and enhanced.) + - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer + (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now + periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver + can get started on the files sooner rather than later. - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) + - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include + some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, + password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) - - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to - start a daemon that had improper default option values that could - cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. + - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that + it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we + really did expect the socket to close). - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value - that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally + silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) + INTERNAL: - - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received - file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the - partial file. + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). BUILD CHANGES: - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). + + - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they + refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). + + - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that + the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s + presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.