X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/fd8571c2c9620ea5e637e5da369c48fd5f664294..f8db4a8ab4bef2846cb69d46707be6b9cebedd6d:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 864e3fad..4d7f332b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,95 +1,58 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.7: - OUTPUT CHANGES: - - - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about - it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only - sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - 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). - - - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination - that already exists in the --backup-dir. - - - 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 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. - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. + - 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). - - 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 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. - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. + - 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). - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. + - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit + instead of silently ignoring the option. - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks - that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. + - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as + fifos) from being linked. - - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the - referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the - user and group of a symlink. - - - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time - rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - - - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to - backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative. + - 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: - - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can - use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it includes copies of identical files. - - - 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.) - - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - - - 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. - - - 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. - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) - - - 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. + - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the + error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged. - - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, - --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. + - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the + message. - - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some - files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at - once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses - --link-dest. + - 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. - INTERNAL: + - 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. - - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over - the socket. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. + - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused) + compatibility functions. - BUILD CHANGES: + - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come. - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). + - 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).