-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+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:
- - 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).
+ - 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.
- - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
- that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+ - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+ that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
- - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
- setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
- the sender, and the file-list is large.
+ - 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.
- - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
- FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
- necessary.
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+ - 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 ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
+ --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that 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 filename ends with "..", 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.
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 --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.)
- - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it includes copies of identical files.
+ - 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).
- - 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.)
+ - 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 failure (since a
+ daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
+ necessary to see the error on stderr).
- - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
+ - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
+ to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
- - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
- so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
- start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+ - 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).
- - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
- to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
- that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+ INTERNAL:
- - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.)
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
+ discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
- - 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.
+ - 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:
- - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+
+ - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
+ enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
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