From 3ae6c1875d96bb82af4074cabb142e46ee53790c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:25:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Starting the 2.6.5 news. --- NEWS | 384 ++--------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 371 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6cd33dfa..e4cde19c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,384 +1,26 @@ -NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005) -Protocol: 29 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.3: +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 29 (unchanged) +Changes since 2.6.4: - 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. - - - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both - sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are - being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). - (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.) - - - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides - "send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). - This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file. - - - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now - avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances. - As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer - items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to - the transfer, so --verbose is now the equivalent of a --log-format of - '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any link info). If the log output - must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time the name - is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was specified - (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the full - --log-format output will come after). - 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). - - - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list - of changes that would be output without --dry-run. - - - 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 cygwin) needed - setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with - mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.) - - - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is - the sender, and the file-list is large. - - - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could - merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a multiplexed - packet of data if only part of that data had been written out to the - socket when the message from the generator arrived. - - - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating - FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in some compatibility code using - mkfifo() and socket() when necessary. - - - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. Also, - if the --max-delete limit is exceeded during a run, we now output a - warning about this at the end of the run and exit with a new error - code (25). - - - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - - - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect - readable symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. - - - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will - affect 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, where DIR is a - relative path, the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a - file that was put into the partial-dir. - - - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is - enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate - backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file). - - - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error. - - - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a - server sender. - - - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the - client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a - compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure - if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have - exited with an error for large files). + - 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 + config file. - - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and - sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually - specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior - versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data - properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification. - - - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not - being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about - the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was - specified) and exit with a new error code (6). - - - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options - (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list, - there's no need to send them a set of duplicates). - - - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator - is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress - output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.) - - - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while - the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic - (looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time - touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that - should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to - make progress. (Requires protocol 29.) - - - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the - items in the transfer (the size might be undefined on some OSes). - - - Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it - back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and - the daemon was the receiver. - - - The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differred in - (the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR. - - - When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed - the change-report output for the directory so that we don't report - an identical directory as changed. + - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write + permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. 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 --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files - from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the - transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the - default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now also available as - --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that - will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without - a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so - an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any - file-deleting options (including the new --remove-sent-files option). - - - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient: - Previously an duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the - receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new - algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files - inside the transfer). - - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except - that it locally copies identical files instead of hard-linking them. - - - 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.) (Requires protocol 29.) - - - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - - - The daemon-mode options are now separated from the normal rsync - options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it - impossible to start a daemon that has improper default option values - (which could cause problems when a client connects, such as hanging - or crashing). - - - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon - to specify both a default value for the daemon side and 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.) Also added "address". The command-line options - take precedence over a config-file option, as expected. - - - 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. - - - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, - --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol - 29.) - - - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories - without recursion. - - - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to - put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any - internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" - for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically - (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, - but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of - the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection. - - - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating - the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This - option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of - the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide - an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) - - - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter - rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling - that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory - filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). - This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing - include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older - versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but - backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions. - (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) - - - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into - a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the - --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This - makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. - - - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is - reduced. - - - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This - setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) - - - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index - they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a - non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone - very wrong). - - - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a - more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect - is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the - rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too. - - - Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file - for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm - only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it - does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file - was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy - name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it - needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and - enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.) - - - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files - between systems. - - - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal - enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6 - literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.) - - - When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open - one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs. - - - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to - avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync - to detach. - - - The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or - --read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see - what would happen without --dry-run. - - - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only - variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the - read-only side can succeed. - - - The log-format % escapes can now have a numeric field width in - between the % and the escape letter (e.g. "%-40n %08p"). - - - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. - - SUPPORT FILES: - - - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: 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 and a parallel hierarchy of files to - effect its update. - - - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the - /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will - exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The - excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly - anchored. - - - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make - a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test - for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and - the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error. - - - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe - Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only - certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. + - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped + characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output + using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". INTERNAL: - - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over - the socket. - - - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so - that it is easier to maintain. - - - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for - consistency and proper size. - - - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). - - - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. - - - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't - find a variable with at least 32 bits. - - PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29: - - - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This - indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The - generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when - dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), - which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and - less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is - now outputting all the file-change info messages). - - - If a file is being hard-linked, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit is enabled - in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately - follows in vstring format (see below). - - - If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the - ITEM_BASIS_TYPE_FOLLOWS bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single - byte follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that - indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit - is set in the flag-word and the name of the match in vstring format - follows the basis byte. A vstring is a variable length string that - has its size written prior to the string, and no terminating null. - If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length is a single byte. If - it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is written as ((len >> 8) | - 0x80) followed by (len % 0x100). - - - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This - means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes - (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C - option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of - filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older - transfer scenarios). - - - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir - names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it - always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the - list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between - directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".) - - - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request - is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and - the new --list-only option is included in the options. - - - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch), - they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to - build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the - wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). - - - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA - excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to - the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in - this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that - survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the - filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other - side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list - that is sent in this scenario is often empty. - - - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet - from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the - receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive - packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit - (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone). - - - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs - option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell - script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead - of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). BUILD CHANGES: - - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). - - - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). -- 2.34.1