-NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (changed)
-Changes since 2.6.9:
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.3:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
- it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
+ - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
+ allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
- - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
- option. Prior versions used to output too many creation events for
- matching items.
+ - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
+ of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
- - 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.
+ - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
+ particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
+ be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
+ the --remove-source-files was also specified.
- - A negated filter rule now sends the negation option when sending the
- filter rules.
+ - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
+ destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
+ a non-root copy can't affect.
- - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option: it
- would output superfluous directory information for a non-daemon rsync.
+ - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
+ incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
- - 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.
+ - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
+ of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
+ of the transfer).
- - 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.
+ - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
+ this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
+ silently (the user should see the warning about deletions being disabled
+ due to IO error when --ignore-errors was not specified).
- - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
- directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+ - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
+ it now outputs the name back to the client without mangling the charset.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
- to another 3.0.0 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
- acls.diff patch that will add that.)
-
- - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is
- an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need
- to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
- xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
-
- - 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.
- There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
-
- - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
- one character-set to another during the transfer. (If your system does
- not support iconv, you must currently manually disable this by using
- the --enable-iconv configure option.)
-
- - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
- side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
- older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
- an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
- or it will be silently ignored.*
+ - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
+ the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
- - 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).
+ - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
- omitted the --server option.
+ - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
+ is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
+ user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
+ server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
- - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+ - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
- development of a new protocol version. This exchange of sub-version
- info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking
- in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made
- to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).
+ - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
+ or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
+
+ - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release.
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