From a1c75ed05ce97243c270bf1d7856641a5cf64abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:17:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Aged news from NEWS file. --- OLDNEWS | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 185 insertions(+) diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS index 61a17343..803b20d8 100644 --- a/OLDNEWS +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -1,3 +1,186 @@ +NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005) +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 + can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable. + + - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would + output a "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: + + - 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. + + - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified + (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash). + + - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the + write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this + only caused an annoying warning message). + + - 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. + + - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after + processing. + + - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in + addition to its use in daemon mode). + + - 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. + + - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it + as a "directory", not a "file". + + - 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. + + - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the + generator hasn't created a needed 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. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove + the mount-point dir. + + - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and + sending files to an older rsync without using --delete. + + - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not + trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!". + + - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't + handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough. + + - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when + --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing + slash. + + - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then + re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive + (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a + trailing slash. + + - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink. + + - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause + the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal + messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.) + + - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if + "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent + dir of the destination). + + - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no + transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't + delete anything. + + - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the + "deleting" messages are output before the statistics. + + - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno + for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for + compatibility with OS variations). + + ENHANCEMENTS: + + - 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). + + - 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. + + - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the + sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving + the checksum data for a large file. + + - 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!) + + - 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). + + - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall + back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better + than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a + daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was + necessary to see the error on stderr). + + - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon" + instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a + non-daemon transfer). + + - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the + support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options + when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of + other similar options being added at some point). + + INTERNAL: + + - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to + better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in + messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some + locales). + + - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions. + + - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help + someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4. + + BUILD CHANGES: + + - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of + setlocale() in the binary. + + - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented + rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. + + - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1. + + - 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. + + - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell + (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release. + + - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts. + + - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch + that enables the optional copying of extended attributes. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005) Protocol: 29 (changed) Changes since 2.6.3: @@ -389,6 +572,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling. + + NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004) Protocol: 28 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.2: -- 2.34.1