-NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (28 Sep 2013)
Protocol: 31 (changed)
-Changes since 3.0.4:
+Changes since 3.0.9:
OUTPUT CHANGES:
"log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
--out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
- unchanged by default.) When some level of human-readable output is
- enabled, the column width for the file size in the --list-only output
- is increased.
+ unchanged by default.)
+
+ - The --list-only option is now affected by the --human-readable setting.
+ It will display digit groupings by default, and unit suffixes if higher
+ levels of readability are requested. Also, the column width for the size
+ output has increased from 11 to 14 characters when human readability is
+ enabled. Use --no-h to get the old-style output and column size.
- The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
be increasing as new files are found.
- Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
- (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (new for
- protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
+ (protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (a new line
+ for protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
- list broken down by type.
+ list that shows the counts by type. The wording of the transferred count
+ has also changed so that it is clearer that it is only a count of regular
+ files.
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a bug in incremental recursion transfers where an I/O error might
- not get noticed in time for the receiving side to disable deletions
- (requires protocol 31).
+ - Fixed a bug in the iconv code when EINVAL or EILSEQ is returned with a
+ full output buffer.
+
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
+
+ - Fixed a bogus "vanished file" error if some files were specified with
+ "./" prefixes and others were not.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in --sparse where an extra gap could get inserted after a
+ partial write.
- Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
- its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+ - Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
+ help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
+ abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
+ closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
- - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
- character to get translated incorrectly.
+ - The sender now checks each file it plans to remove to ensure that it
+ hasn't changed from the first stat's info. This helps to avoid losing
+ file data when the user is not using the option in a safe manner.
+
+ - Fixed a data-duplication bug in the compress option that made compression
+ less efficient. This improves protocol 31 onward, while behaving in a
+ compatible (buggy) manner with older rsync protocols.
+
+ - When creating a temp-file, rsync is now a bit smarter about it dot-char
+ choices, which can fix a problem on OS X with names that start with "..".
+
+ - Rsync now sets a cleanup flag for --inplace and --append transfers that
+ will flush the write buffer if the transfer aborts. This ensures that
+ more received data gets written out to the disk on an aborted transfer
+ (which is quite helpful on a slow, flaky connection).
+
+ - The reads that map_ptr() now does are aligned on 1K boundaries. This
+ helps some filesystems and/or files that don't like unaligned reads.
+
+ - Fix an issue in the msleep() function if time jumps backwards.
+
+ - Fix daemon-server module-name splitting bug where an arg would get split
+ even if --protect-args was used.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
+ - Added a forward-DNS lookup for the daemon's hosts allow/deny config. Can
+ be disabled via "forward lookup" parameter (defaults to enabled).
+
- Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
values, even when not run by a super-user.
+ - The daemon now tries to send the user the error messages from the
+ pre-xfer exec script when it fails.
+
+ - Improved the use of alt-dest options into an existing hierarchy of files:
+ If a match is found in an alt-dir, it takes precedence over an existing
+ file. (We'll need to wait for a future version before attribute-changes
+ on otherwise unchanged files are safe when using an existing hierarchy.)
+
+ - Added per-user authorization options and group-authorization support to
+ the daemon's "auth users" parameter.
+
- Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
(using %VAR% references).
- When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- - Fixed a free of the wrong pointer in uncache_tmp_xattrs() (which only
- sometimes affects an --xattr transfer when --backup is used).
+ - Avoid re-sending xattr info for hard-linked files w/the same xattrs
+ (protocol 31).
- - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the
- upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic.
+ - The backup code was improved to use better logic maintaining the backup
+ directory hierarchy. Also, when a file is being backed up, rsync tries
+ to hard-link it into place so that the upcoming replacement of the
+ destination file will be atomic (for the normal, non-inplace logic).
- Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
- Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
+ - Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
+ the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
+
+ - Added the --preallocate command-line option.
+
+ - Allow --password-file=- to read the password from stdin (filename "-").
+
+ - Rsync now comes packaged with an rsync-ssl helper script that can be
+ used to contact a remote rsync daemon using a piped-stunnel command.
+ It also includes an stunnel config file to run the server side to
+ support ssl daemon connections. See the packaging/lsb/rsync.spec
+ file for one way to package the resulting files. (Suggestions for
+ how to make this even easier to install & use are welcomed.)
+
+ - Improved the speed of some --inplace updates when there are lots of
+ identical checksum blocks that end up being unusable.
+
+ - Added the --outbuf=N|L|B option for choosing the output buffering.
+
+ - Repeating the --fuzzy option now causes the code to look for fuzzy
+ matches inside alt-dest directories too.
+
+ - The --chmod option now supports numeric modes, e.g. --chmod=644,D755
+
- Added some Solaris xattr code.
+ - Made an rsync daemon (the listening process) exit with a 0 status when
+ it was signaled to die. This helps launchd.
+
+ - Improved the RSYNC_* environment variables for the pre-xfer exec script:
+ when a daemon is sent multiple request args, they are now joined into a
+ single return value (separated by spaces) so that the RSYNC_REQUEST
+ environment variable is accurate for any "pre-xfer exec". The values in
+ RSYNC_ARG# vars are no longer truncated at the "." arg (prior to the
+ request dirs/files), so that all the requested values are also listed
+ (separately) in RSYNC_ARG# variables.
+
EXTRAS:
- Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
passwd/group files from another machine.
+ - There's a new, improved version of the lsh script in the support dir:
+ it's written in perl and supports -u without resorting to using sudo
+ (when run as root). The old shell version is now named lsh.sh.
+
+ - There is a helper script named rsync-slash-strip in the support directory
+ for anyone that wants to change the way rsync handles args with trailing
+ slashes. (e.g. arg/ would get stripped to arg while arg/. would turn into
+ arg/).
+
INTERNAL:
- The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
- A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
- - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+ - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendible, to
read better, and do better sanity checking.
- Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
- Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
+ - The included zlib was upgraded from 1.2.3 to 1.2.8.
+
+ - Rsync can now be compiled to use an unmodified zlib library instead of
+ the tweaked one that is included with rsync. This will eventually
+ become the default, at which point we'll start the countdown to removing
+ the included zlib. Until then, feel free to configure using:
+
+ ./configure --with-included-zlib=no
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- Added more conditional debug output.
+
+ - Fixed some build issues for android and minix.
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