From 3cbe640d3c42dbd239e3713e5a60d7dc4c24b649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:35:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak the files to start work on the next release. The work-in-progress version is 3.0.1dev. --- NEWS | 336 ++----------------------------------------------- OLDNEWS | 344 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ configure.in | 2 +- 3 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cce8d9dc..88d3bb1c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,341 +1,19 @@ -NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008) -Protocol: 30 (changed) -Changes since 2.6.9: - - NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: - - - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to - send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). - This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most - people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having - an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the - transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as - separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) - Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. - - - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now - sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r - along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not - understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to - either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. - - - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output - with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. - Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". - - - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a - symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also - allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has - the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's - hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. - - - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile - for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit - with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync - daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic - breaking of locks to be done). +NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) +Protocol: 30 (unchanged) +Changes since 3.0.0: BUG FIXES: - - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon - config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these - options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, - --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. - - - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation - on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable - daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't - taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use - it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- - translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter - for full details. - - - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the - chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the - module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for - libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the - rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside - - - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the - rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the - --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option - was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated - source file. - - - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: - it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. - - - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest - option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for - matching items. - - - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a - signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being - able to get the exit status from the script. - - - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the - negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. - - - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it - no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. - - - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" - files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the - copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. - - - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains - and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this - option to control a remote shell's password prompt. - - - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination - directory are handled right when --perms is left off. - - - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now - output as a creation event, not a change event. - - - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly - when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. - - - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. - - - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: - any missing backup directories are now created. - - - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or - --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. - - - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. - - - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code - now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). - - - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we - are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems - when transfering read-only files. - - - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at - the end of the run about a partial transfer. - - - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more - options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, - --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. - - - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older - versions would update some files while writing the batch). - - - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken - symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code - already handled this for --copy-links). - - - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. - - - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's - owner when rsync is running as the same user. + - ... ENHANCEMENTS: - - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking - to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly - (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. - See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. - - - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical - option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). - - - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a - 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is - the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with - the new incremental recursion mode. - - - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than - having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- - shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one - (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that - local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . - - - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of - the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args - to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, - and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). - - - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete - files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. - - - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is - an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even - supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, - ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches - dir. - - - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is - an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even - supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you - need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of - rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. - - - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve - all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. - It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. - There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. - - - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from - one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to - make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). - If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then - rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by - default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default - value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, - "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an - explanation of the --iconv option's settings. - - - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- - set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You - can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the - client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). - - - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of - file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). - - - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: - *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg - The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. - - - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file - deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older - versions just silently stopped deleting things.) - - - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn - about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure - what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, - as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though - older versions don't warn). - - - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and - receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a - hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the - receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data - sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more - data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information - to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving - side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept - the device+inode information on both sides). - - - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules - that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. - -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. - - - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. - --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory - that does not exist. - - - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about - it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not - that important). - - - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4. - - - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the - destination file, which speeds up file appending. - - - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append - option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For - compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is - talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. - - - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a - connection timeout for rsync daemon access. - - - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable - that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. - - - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. - - - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. + - ... INTERNAL: - - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- - named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows - rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one - that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster - than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). - - - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). - - - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing - through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. - - - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. - - - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters - easier without forcing variables via casts. - - - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. - - - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of - string-handling functions. - - - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. - - - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a - compiler warning. - - - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. - - - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and - omitted the --server option. - - - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than - the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new - categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing - an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be - transferred. - - - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. - - - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing - older sections of a pool's memory. - - - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with - some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a - better license than the old code. + - ... DEVELOPER RELATED: - - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. - - - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS - (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). - Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. - - - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The - autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the - normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all - generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the - prepare-source script's fetch option). - - - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the - rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). - This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named - rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. - - - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a - complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. - - - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- - directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows - someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is - useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, - but another filesystem does). - - - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the - development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync - versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. - This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may - interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not - interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which - does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be - incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). - - - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change - in the 3.0.0 release. + - ... diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 0ca59e62..f7c74e91 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,346 @@ +NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008) +Protocol: 30 (changed) +Changes since 2.6.9: + + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to + send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink). + This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most + people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having + an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the + transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as + separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.) + Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs. + + - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now + sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r + along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not + understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to + either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually. + + - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output + with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made. + Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)". + + - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a + symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also + allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has + the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's + hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details. + + - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile + for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit + with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync + daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic + breaking of locks to be done). + + BUG FIXES: + + - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon + config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these + options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir, + --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from. + + - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation + on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable + daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't + taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use + it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id- + translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter + for full details. + + - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the + chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the + module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for + libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the + rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside + + - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the + rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the + --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option + was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated + source file. + + - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options: + it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones. + + - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest + option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for + matching items. + + - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a + signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being + able to get the exit status from the script. + + - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the + negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync. + + - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it + no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync. + + - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing" + files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the + copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats. + + - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains + and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this + option to control a remote shell's password prompt. + + - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination + directory are handled right when --perms is left off. + + - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now + output as a creation event, not a change event. + + - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly + when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing. + + - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size. + + - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace: + any missing backup directories are now created. + + - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or + --read-batch: backup files are actually created now. + + - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence. + + - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code + now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly). + + - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we + are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems + when transfering read-only files. + + - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at + the end of the run about a partial transfer. + + - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more + options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls, + --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify. + + - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older + versions would update some files while writing the batch). + + - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken + symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code + already handled this for --copy-links). + + - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run. + + - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's + owner when rsync is running as the same user. + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking + to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly + (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory. + See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions. + + - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical + option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file). + + - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a + 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is + the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with + the new incremental recursion mode. + + - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than + having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote- + shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one + (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that + local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} . + + - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of + the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args + to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting, + and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[). + + - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete + files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass. + + - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, + ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches + dir. + + - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you + need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of + rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. + + - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve + all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. + It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. + There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon. + + - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from + one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to + make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). + If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then + rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by + default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default + value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, + "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an + explanation of the --iconv option's settings. + + - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character- + set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You + can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the + client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client). + + - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of + file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z). + + - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include: + *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg + The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly. + + - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file + deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older + versions just silently stopped deleting things.) + + - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn + about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure + what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1, + as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though + older versions don't warn). + + - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and + receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a + hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the + receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data + sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more + data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information + to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving + side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept + the device+inode information on both sides). + + - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules + that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g. + -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories. + + - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g. + --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory + that does not exist. + + - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about + it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not + that important). + + - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4. + + - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the + destination file, which speeds up file appending. + + - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append + option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For + compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is + talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method. + + - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a + connection timeout for rsync daemon access. + + - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable + that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection. + + - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output. + + - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options. + + INTERNAL: + + - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same- + named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows + rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one + that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster + than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort(). + + - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values). + + - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing + through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files. + + - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc. + + - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters + easier without forcing variables via casts. + + - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions. + + - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of + string-handling functions. + + - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir. + + - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a + compiler warning. + + - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30. + + - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and + omitted the --server option. + + - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than + the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new + categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing + an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be + transferred. + + - Improved the use of "const" on pointers. + + - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing + older sections of a pool's memory. + + - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with + some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a + better license than the old code. + + DEVELOPER RELATED: + + - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later. + + - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS + (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access). + Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git. + + - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The + autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the + normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all + generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the + prepare-source script's fetch option). + + - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the + rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff). + This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named + rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz. + + - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a + complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible. + + - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub- + directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows + someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is + useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs, + but another filesystem does). + + - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the + development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync + versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner. + This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may + interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not + interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which + does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be + incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development). + + - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change + in the 3.0.0 release. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.8: @@ -2244,6 +2587,7 @@ Changes since 2.4.6: Partial Protocol History RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL + ?? ??? 2008 3.0.1 30 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29 diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 6934014a..df4cb955 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([byteorder.h]) AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) AC_PREREQ(2.59) -RSYNC_VERSION=3.0.0 +RSYNC_VERSION=3.0.1dev AC_SUBST(RSYNC_VERSION) AC_MSG_NOTICE([Configuring rsync $RSYNC_VERSION]) -- 2.34.1