-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
-
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
- - The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices
- (character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and
- named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files
- under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the
- "--specials" option, below.
-
- - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
- now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
- your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
- for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
- "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
- digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
- (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
- escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
- (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
- the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below.
-
- Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
- so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
- suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
- old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 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 potential hang in a remote generator: when the receiver gets a
- read-error on the socket, it now signals the generator about this so that
- the generator does not try to send any of the terminating error messages
- to the client (avoiding a potential hang in some setups).
-
- - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
-
- - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this
- error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting
- it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors).
-
- - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
- permissions without recreating the file.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
- algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
-
- - 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. Also improved how the verbose output
- handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
- "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-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.
-
- - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was
- also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning
- about being unable to create the missing directory.
-
- - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the
- destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or
- device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no
- longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir.
-
- - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied
- directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative).
-
- - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
- --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
-
- - Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this
- when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error).
-
- - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it
- was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a
- user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing
- daemon-rsync connection.
-
- - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer
- forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave
- it set.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong
- checksum for the current file offset.
-
- - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non-
- directory destination arg.
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards failed to match an absolute source arg, but only when
+ --relative is in effect.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - 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).
-
- - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
- high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
-
- - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
- --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
- the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old
- meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you
- just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".)
-
- - 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).
-
- - 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 man page 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).
-
- - 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.
-
- - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
- be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
-
- - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
- a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
- files copied to and from the daemon.
-
- - 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).
-
- - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
- discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
- easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
- just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
-
- - 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 --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special
- files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices
- option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block).
- The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a
- still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that
- omits device copying.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
- setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
- --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
-
- - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
- into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
-
- - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
- execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
- not desired.
-
- - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
- that it receives.
-
- - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
- (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
-
- - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
-
- - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
- removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
- clump up all the removals at the end).
-
- - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
- PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator
- can get the child-exit status from the receiver.
-
- - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
- sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
-
- - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
- and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
- the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
-
- - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
-
- - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
- improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
- --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
- --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
- discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
- matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
- documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
-
- - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
- xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - We now use sigaction() and sigprocmask() if possible, and fall back on
- signal() if not. Using sigprocmask() ensures that rsync enables all the
- signals that it needs, just in case it was started in a masked state.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make
- it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
-
- - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
- the previous -p0. Also, the version included in the release tar now
- affect generated files (e.g. configure, rsync.1, proto.h, etc.), so
- it is no longer necessary to run autoconf and/or yodl unless you're
- applying a patch that was checked out from CVS.
-
- - 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.
-
- - There is a new script, "prepare-source" than can be used to update the
- various generated files (proto.h, configure, etc.) even before configure
- has created the Makefile (this is mainly useful when patching the source
- with a patch that doesn't affect generated files).
-
- - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affected by a file such
- as ~/.popt.
+ - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
+ easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
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