-NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.2:
-
- OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
-
- - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
- term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
- you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
- should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
- indicator that the verbose output is over.
-
- - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
- "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
-
- - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
- each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that
- a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be
- output).
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.4:
BUG FIXES:
- - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
- multiple source directories were specified.
+ - 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 the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
- checksums.
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
+ permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
- - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
- over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+ - 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 a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
- the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
- terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+ - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+ processing.
- - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
- data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
- file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
- retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
- (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
- older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
- older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
- error.)
+ - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+ addition to its use in daemon mode).
- - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
- is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
- original file in the process).
-
- - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
- (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
-
- - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
- items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
- allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
-
- - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
- phase.
-
- - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
- the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
-
- - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
- for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
- "vanished".
-
- - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
- the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
- option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
-
- - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
- refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
- to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
- the message).
-
- - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
- the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
- be daemon-only).
-
- - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
- batch-processing options.
-
- - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
- implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
- that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
- implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
- suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
- help).
-
- - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
- messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
- die with a socket-write error).
-
- - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
- hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
- that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
- rename() behavior).
-
- - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
- the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
-
- - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
- can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
- This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
- AIX and HP-UX.
+ - 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.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
- (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
- writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
-
- - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
- onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
- as matching a normal directory from the sender.
+ - 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.
- - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
- file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
- in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
- are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
- Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+ - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
+ characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
+ using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
- - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config 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.).
- - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
- and documented all these options in the man page.
-
- - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
- bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
- values.
-
- - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
- SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
-
- - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
-
- - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
- fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
- sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
- systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
- to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
- file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
- stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
- seed for all batch processing has been removed.
-
- - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
- presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
- authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
- if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
- error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
- names.
-
- - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
- option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
+ - 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).
INTERNAL:
- - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
- and made the code easier to maintain.
-
- - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
- a lot of args.
-
- - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
- rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
-
- - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
- IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
- handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
- them).
-
- - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to
- a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size.
-
- - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
BUILD CHANGES:
- - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
- including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
-
- - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
- proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
- updated).
-
- - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
- target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
- have $STRIP set in the environment.
-
- - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
-
- DEVELOPER RELATED:
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
+ - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
- - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
- ones were removed.
+ - 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.
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