-NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
-Changes since 3.0.2:
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
+ --human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
+ "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.)
+
+ - 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",
+ both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
+ size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
+ incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
+ instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
+ letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
+ 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 (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 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 wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has
- "use chroot" enabled.
+ - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
+ it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
- - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code.
+ - Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
+ character to get translated incorrectly.
- - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a
- --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the
- destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied.
+ - 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 an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev"
- error.
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup.
+ - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
- - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon-
- exclude rule.
+ - Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
+ control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
+ using --info=progress2.
- - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no
- files) to a differently named, non-existent directory.
+ - The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
+ debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
+ protocol.
- - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape.
+ - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
+ either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
+ missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
+ generates an error).
- - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right
- errno when a function failed.
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
- - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir.
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
- - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect().
+ - Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
+ MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
+ specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
- - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a
- newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten.
+ - Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
+ allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
- - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
- a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
+ - Added a forward-DNS lookup for the daemon's hosts allow/deny config. Can
+ be disabled via "forward lookup" parameter (defaults to enabled).
- - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
- (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
- checksum struct over the wire.
+ - 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.
- - If an source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded
- arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude
- check happen in the better place in the sending code.
+ - Added per-user authorization options and group-authorization support to
+ the daemon's "auth users" parameter.
- - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory().
+ - Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
+ (using %VAR% references).
- - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file
- offsets.
+ - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+ the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
- ENHANCEMENTS:
+ - Avoid re-sending xattr info for hard-linked files w/the same xattrs
+ (protocol 31).
- - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in
- the daemon config file as "parameters".
+ - 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 description of the --inplace option was improved.
+ - Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - 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 some Solaris xattr code.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
+ it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
+
+ - Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
+ makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
+ passwd/group files from another machine.
- - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
- compatibility improvements.
+ INTERNAL:
- - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the
- listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect
- a dot-dir arg.
+ - The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
+ over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
+ changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
- - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory
- from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and
- the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get
- rebuild without cause.
+ - The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
+ files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
+ parallel manner.
+
+ - 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
+ read better, and do better sanity checking.
+
+ - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
+ than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
+
+ - The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
+ handling.
+
+ - Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
- - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities
- (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps.
+ - Added more conditional debug output.
- - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to
- bleed-over into patches that follow.
+ - Changed configure.in to configure.ac.
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