+NEWS for rsync 3.1.3 (28 Jan 2018)
+Protocol: 31 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.1.2:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+ - Fixed a buffer overrun in the protocol's handling of xattr names and
+ ensure that the received name is null terminated.
+ - Fix an issue with --protect-args where the user could specify the arg in
+ the protected-arg list and short-circuit some of the arg-sanitizing code.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Don't output about a new backup dir without appropriate info verbosity.
+ - Fixed some issues with the sort functions in support/rsyncstats script.
+ - Added a way to specify daemon config lists (e.g. users, groups, etc) that
+ contain spaces (see "auth users" in the latest rsyncd.conf manpage).
+ - If a backup fails (e.g. full disk) rsync exits with an error.
+ - Fixed a problem with a doubled --fuzzy option combined with --link-dest.
+ - Avoid invalid output in the summary if either the start or end time had
+ an error.
+ - We don't allow a popt alias to affect the --daemon or --server options.
+ - Fix daemon exclude code to disallow attribute changes in addition to
+ disallowing transfers.
+ - Don't force nanoseconds to match if a non-transferred, non-checksummed
+ file only passed the quick-check w/o comparing nanosecods.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added the ability for rsync to compare nanosecond times in its file-check
+ comparisons, and added support nanosecond times on Mac OS X.
+ - Added a short-option (-@) for --modify-window.
+ - Added the --checksum-choice=NAME[,NAME] option to choose the checksum
+ algorithms.
+ - Added hashing of xattr names (with using -X) to improve the handling of
+ files with large numbers of xattrs.
+ - Added a way to filter xattr names using include/exclude/filter rules (see
+ the --xattrs option in the manpage for details).
+ - Added "daemon chroot|uid|gid" to the daemon config (in addition to the
+ old chroot|uid|gid settings that affect the daemon's transfer process).
+ - Added "syslog tag" to the daemon configuration.
+ - Some manpage improvements.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Tweak the "make" output when yodl isn't around to create the man pages.
+ - Changed an obsolete autoconf compile macro.
+ - Support newer yodl versions when converting man pages.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.2 (21 Dec 2015)
+Protocol: 31 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.1.1:
+
+ SECURITY FIXES:
+
+ - Make sure that all transferred files use only path names from inside the
+ transfer. This makes it impossible for a malicious sender to try to make
+ the receiver use an unsafe destination path for a transferred file, such
+ as a just-sent symlink.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Change the checksum seed order in the per-block checksums. This prevents
+ someone from trying to create checksum blocks that match in sum but not
+ content.
+ - Fixed a with the per-dir filter files (using -FF) that could trigger an
+ assert failure.
+ - Only skip set_modtime() on a transferred file if the time is exactly
+ right.
+ - Don't create an empty backup dir for a transferred file that doesn't
+ exist yet.
+ - Fixed a bug where --link-dest and --xattrs could cause rsync to exit if
+ a filename had a matching dir of the same name in the alt-dest area.
+ - Allow more than 32 group IDs per user in the daemon's gid=LIST config.
+ - Fix the logging of %b & %c via --log-file (daemon logging was already
+ correct, as was --out-format='%b/%c').
+ - Fix erroneous acceptance of --info=5 & --debug=5 (an empty flag name is
+ not valid).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added "(DRY RUN)" info to the --debug=exit output line.
+ - Use usleep() for our msleep() function if it is available.
+ - Added a few extra long-option names to rrsync script, which will make
+ BackupPC happier.
+ - Made configure choose to use linux xattrs on netbsd (rather than not
+ supporting xattrs).
+ - Added -wo (write-only) option to rrsync support script.
+ - Misc. manpage tweaks.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Fixed a bug with the Makefile's use of INSTALL_STRIP.
+ - Improve a test in the suite that could get an erroneous timestamp error.
+ - Tweaks for newer versions of git in the packaging tools.
+ - Improved the m4 generation rules and some autoconf idioms.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.1 (22 Jun 2014)
+Protocol: 31 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.1.0:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - If the receiver gets bogus filenames from the sender (an unexpected
+ leading slash or a ".." infix dir), exit with an error. This prevents a
+ malicious sender from trying to inject filenames that would affect an
+ area outside the destination directories.
+
+ - Fixed a failure to remove the partial-transfer temp file when interrupted
+ (and rsync is not saving the partial files).
+
+ - Changed the chown/group/xattr-set order to avoid losing some security-
+ related xattr info (that would get cleared by a chown).
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the xattr-finding code that could make a non-root-run
+ receiver not able to find some xattr numbers.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the early daemon protocol where a timeout failed to be
+ honored (e.g. if the remote side fails to send us the initial protocol
+ greeting).
+
+ - Fixed unintended inclusion of commas in file numbers in the daemon log.
+
+ - We once again send the 'f' sub-flag (of -e) to the server side so it
+ knows that we can handle incremental-recursion directory errors properly
+ in older protocols.
+
+ - Fixed an issue with too-aggressive keep-alive messages causing a problem
+ for older rsync versions early in the transfer.
+
+ - Fixed an incorrect message about backup-directory-creation when using
+ --dry-run and the backup dir is not an absolute path.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where a failed deletion and/or a failed sender-side removal
+ would not affect the exit code.
+
+ - Fixed a bug that caused a failure when combining --delete-missing-args
+ with --xattrs and/or --acls.
+
+ - Fixed a strange dir_depth assertion error that was caused by empty-dir
+ removals and/or duplicate files in the transfer.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --info=progress2's output stats where rsync would
+ only update the stats at the end of each file's transfer. It now uses
+ the data that is flowing for the current file, making the stats more
+ accurate and less jumpy.
+
+ - Fixed an itemize bug that affected the combo of --link-dest, -X, and -n.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with delete messages not appearing in the log file when
+ the user didn't use --verbose.
+
+ - Improve chunked xattr reading for OS X.
+
+ - Removed an attempted hard-link xattr optimization that was causing a
+ transfer failure. This removal is flagged in the compatibility code, so
+ if a better fix can be discovered, we have a way to flip it on again.
+
+ - Fixed a bug when the receiver is not configured to be able to hard link
+ symlimks/devices/special-file items but the sender sent some of these
+ items flagged as hard-linked.
+
+ - We now generate a better error if the buffer overflows in do_mknod().
+
+ - Fixed a problem reading more than 16 ACLs on some OSes.
+
+ - Fixed the reading of the secrets file to avoid an infinite wait when
+ the username is missing.
+
+ - Fixed a parsing problem in the --usermap/--groupmap options when using
+ MIN-MAX numbers.
+
+ - Switched Cygwin back to using socketpair "pipes" to try to speed it up.
+
+ - Added knowledge of a few new options to rrsync.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Tweaked the temp-file naming when --temp-dir=DIR is used: the temp-file
+ names will not get a '.' prepended.
+
+ - Added support for a new-compression idiom that does not compress all the
+ matching data in a transfer. This can help rsync to use less cpu when a
+ transfer has a lot of matching data, and also makes rsync compatible with
+ a non-bundled zlib. See the --new-compress and --old-compress options in
+ the manpage.
+
+ - Added the support/rsync-no-vanished wrapper script.
+
+ - Made configure more prominently mention when we failed to find yodl (in
+ case the user wants to be able to generate manpages from *.yo files).
+
+ - Have manpage mention how a daemon's max-verbosity setting affects info
+ and debug options. Also added more clarification on backslash removals
+ for excludes that contain wildcards.
+
+ - Have configure check if for the attr lib (for getxattr) for those systems
+ that need to link against it explicitly.
+
+ - Change the early dir-creation logic to only use that idiom in an
+ inc-recursive copy that is preserving directory times. e.g. using
+ --omit-dir-times will avoid these early directories being created.
+
+ - Fix a bug in cmp_time() that would return a wrong result if the 2 times
+ differed by an amount greater than what a time_t can hold.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - We now include an example systemd file (in packaging/systemd).
+
+ - Tweaked configure to make sure that any intended use of the included popt
+ and/or zlib code is put early in the CFLAGS.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (28 Sep 2013)
+Protocol: 31 (changed)
+Changes since 3.0.9:
+
+ 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 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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 --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
+ for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
+
+ - Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
+ ownership during the copy.
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Avoid re-sending xattr info for hard-linked files w/the same xattrs
+ (protocol 31).
+
+ - 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
+ 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.
+
+ - 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
+ 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).
+
+ - 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 extendible, 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.
+
+ - 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.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.9 (23 Sep 2011)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.8:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fix a crash bug in checksum scanning when --inplace is used.
+
+ - Fix a hang if a hard-linked file cannot be opened by the sender (e.g.
+ if it has no read permission).
+
+ - Fix preservation of a symlink's system xattrs (e.g. selinux) on Linux.
+
+ - Fix a memory leak in the xattr code.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with --delete-excluded when a filter merge file has a rule
+ that specifies a receiver-only side restriction.
+
+ - Fix a bug with the modifying of unwritable directories.
+
+ - Fix --fake-super's interaction with --link-dest same-file comparisons.
+
+ - Fix the updating of the curr_dir buffer to avoid a duplicate slash.
+
+ - Fix the directory permissions on an implied dot-dir when using --relative
+ (e.g. /outside/path/././send/path).
+
+ - Fixed some too-long sleeping instances when using --bwlimit.
+
+ - Fixed when symlink ownership difference-checking gets compiled into
+ unchanged_attrs().
+
+ - Improved the socket-error reporting when multiple protocols fail.
+
+ - Fixed a case where a socket error could reference just-freed memory.
+
+ - Failing to use a password file that was specified on the command-line is
+ now a fatal error.
+
+ - Fix the non-root updating of directories that don't have the read and/or
+ execute permission.
+
+ - Make daemon-excluded file errors more error-like.
+
+ - Fix a compilation issue on older C compilers (due to a misplaced var
+ declaration).
+
+ - Make configure avoid finding socketpair on cygwin.
+
+ - Avoid trying to reference SO_BROADCAST if the OS doesn't support it.
+
+ - Fix some issues with the post-processing of the man pages.
+
+ - Fixed the user home-dir handling in the support/lsh script.
+
+ - Some minor manpage improvements.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (26 Mar 2011)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.7:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
+ exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
+ --backup-dir that is extra extra large.
+
+ - Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without
+ preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during
+ the transfer (CVE-2011-1097). This fixes some assert errors in the
+ hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums (via -c) that
+ should have matched.
+
+ - Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
+ and the transfer is using ACLs or xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a hang if a really large file is being processed by an rsync that
+ can't handle 64-bit numbers. Rsync will now complain about the file
+ being too big and skip it.
+
+ - For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
+ xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The un-copied
+ files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
+ data that is not going to be used.) This ensures that if the user uses
+ --no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
+ extended information from special files that are in the file list (but
+ not in the transfer).
+
+ - Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash. This
+ avoids a potential error where a filename could be interpreted as a
+ (usually invalid) option.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
+ --skip-compress.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
+ will now disallow access to that module.
+
+ - If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
+ reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
+
+ - If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
+ lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
+ system where the newer function is not around. This helps to make the
+ rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.
+
+ - Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
+ compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
+ protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
+ it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.
+
+ - Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
+ hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
+ code fails.
+
+ - The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
+ position. The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
+ an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.
+
+ - Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.
+
+ - Fixed a bug that prevented --numeric-ids from disabling the translation
+ of user/group IDs for ACLs.
+
+ - Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
+ option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
+ changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
+ trying to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.
+
+ - Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
+ file.
+
+ - The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
+ attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.
+
+ - Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
+ Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
+ NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.
+
+ - Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.
+
+ - Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.
+
+ - Avoid re-setting xattrs on a hard-linked file w/the same xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
+ user writable.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
+ into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).
+
+ - If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
+ the middle of adjacent high-bit characters. This prevents a potential
+ filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an
+ invalid multi-byte sequence.
+
+ - If a muli-protocol socket connection fails (i.e., when contacting a
+ daemon), we now report all the failures, not just the last one. This
+ avoids losing a relevant error (e.g. an IPv4 connection-refused error)
+ that happened before the final error (e.g. an IPv6 protocol-not-supported
+ error).
+
+ - Generate a transfer error if we try to call chown with a -1 for a uid or
+ a gid (which is not settable).
+
+ - Fixed the working of --force when used with --one-file-system.
+
+ - Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
+ reject an attempt to supply one (can configure --with-included-popt if
+ your system's popt library doesn't yet have this fix).
+
+ - A couple minor option tweaks to the support/rrsync script, and also some
+ regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.
+
+ - Fixed some issues in the support/mnt-excl script.
+
+ - Various manpage improvements.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added ".hg/" to the default cvs excludes (see -C & --cvs-exclude).
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
+
+ - A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
+
+ - Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
+
+ - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.
+
+ - Fixed configure's checking for iconv routines for newer OS X versions.
+
+ - Fixed the testsuite/xattrs.test script on OS X.
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.7 (31 Dec 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.6:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a bogus free when using --xattrs with --backup.
+
+ - Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file
+ that hasn't really been created.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --compress (-z) where the receiving side could
+ return the error "inflate (token) returned -5".
+
+ - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it
+ noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory (both
+ sides of the transfer must be at least 3.0.7).
+
+ - Improved --skip-compress's error handling of bad character-sets and got
+ rid of a lingering debug fprintf().
+
+ - Fixed the daemon's conveyance of io_error value from the sender.
+
+ - An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid().
+
+ - Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that
+ needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior.
+
+ - 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 "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message.
+
+ - Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case
+ where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data
+ to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing).
+
+ - Some misc manpage improvements.
+
+ - Fixed the chmod-temp-dir testsuite on a system without /var/tmp.
+
+ - Make sure that a timeout specified in the daemon's config is used as a
+ maximum timeout value when the user also specifies a timeout.
+
+ - Improved the error-exit reporting when rsync gets an error trying to
+ cleanup after an error: the initial error is reported.
+
+ - Improved configure's detection of IPv6 for solaris and cygwin.
+
+ - The AIX sysacls routines will now return ENOSYS if ENOTSUP is missing.
+
+ - Made our (only used if missing) getaddrinfo() routine use inet_pton()
+ (which we also provide) instead of inet_aton().
+
+ - The exit-related debug messages now mention the program's role so it is
+ clear who output what message.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Got rid of type-punned compiler warnings output by newer gcc versions.
+
+ - The Makefile now ensures that proto.h will be rebuilt if config.h changes.
+
+ - The testsuite no longer uses "id -u", so it works better on solaris.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.5:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was
+ created from an incremental-recursion transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
+ multiple connections.
+
+ - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
+ have consecutive slashes in the value.
+
+ - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
+
+ - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
+ avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
+
+ - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
+ an I/O during the sending of the file list.
+
+ - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
+ start of the short options.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
+ 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
+
+ - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
+
+ - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
+ receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
+ the transfer.
+
+ - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
+
+ - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
+ rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
+
+ - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
+
+ - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
+
+ - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
+ the --disable-iconv-open configure option.
+
+ - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or
+ the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch.
+
+ - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.4:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a
+ crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero.
+ Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking.
+
+ - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short
+ options specified.
+
+ - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental
+ recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle
+ "redo" files properly (and without hanging).
+
+ - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot.
+
+ - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or
+ destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem
+ when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from
+ file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when
+ incremental recursion is active.
+
+ - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files.
+
+ - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
+
+ - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command.
+
+ - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the
+ confusing "non-empty" qualifier.
+
+ - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of
+ getnameinfo().
+
+ - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of
+ consecutive sparse data.
+
+ - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a
+ client sender (which includes local copying).
+
+ - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready
+ to remove a directory that was now gone.
+
+ - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings.
+
+ - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial-
+ transfer warning.
+
+ - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic
+ update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a
+ particular symlink idiom.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.3:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
+ incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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 now gets a warning about deletions being disabled
+ due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified).
+
+ - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
+ the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name
+ with the wrong charset conversion.
+
+ - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
+ the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
+
+ - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
+
+ - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number
+ (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - 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 message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
+ or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
+
+ - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync"
+ instead of "$RSYNC".
+
+ - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and
+ to do even more consistency checks on the files.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.2:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has
+ "use chroot" enabled.
+
+ - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev"
+ error.
+
+ - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup.
+
+ - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon-
+ exclude rule.
+
+ - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no
+ files) to a differently named, non-existent directory.
+
+ - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape.
+
+ - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right
+ errno when a function failed.
+
+ - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir.
+
+ - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect().
+
+ - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a
+ newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
+ a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
+
+ - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older
+ rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - If a 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.
+
+ - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory().
+
+ - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file
+ offsets.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in
+ the daemon config file as "parameters".
+
+ - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
+
+ EXTRAS:
+
+ - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows
+ an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that
+ sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
+ compatibility improvements.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities
+ (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps.
+
+ - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to
+ bleed-over into patches that follow.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.1:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the xattr code.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - None.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The RPM spec file was improved to install more useful files.
+
+ - A few developer-oriented scripts were moved from the support dir
+ to the packaging dir.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (3 Apr 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
+Changes since 3.0.0:
+
+ NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
+
+ - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
+ itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
+ and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
+ between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
+ revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a
+ new device number, etc.).
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
+ run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
+
+ - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
+ not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
+
+ - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
+
+ - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
+
+ - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted:
+ a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure.
+
+ - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
+ CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
+ of rounding.h fails.
+
+ - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
+
+ - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
+ that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
+ the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
+ protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
+ file) was already working.
+
+ - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
+ can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing,
+ --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set.
+
+ - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right
+ modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
+
+ - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the
+ exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as
+ if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the
+ user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages
+ for these non-user-initiated rules.
+
+ - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
+ handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
+
+ - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
+
+ - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
+
+ - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
+
+ - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
+ longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
+ date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
+ ownership, xattrs, etc.).
+
+ - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
+ because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled,
+ it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
+
+ - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could
+ make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path.
+
+ - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
+ wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
+
+ - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs.
+
+ - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
+ rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to
+ ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than
+ having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually).
+
+ - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
+ listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
+ --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
+
+ - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
+
+ - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
+
+ - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
+ parameters.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
+ sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
+
+ - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
+ normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
+ not have caused problems, though.)
+
+ - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
+ "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory
+ churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
+ args.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
+ unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
+ the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
+
+ - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
+ included popt code should be used or not.
+
+ - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command
+ outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made
+ the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should
+ expect hard-linked symlinks or not.
+
+ - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed.
+
+ - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the
+ rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.
+
+ - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
+ structure.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008)
+Protocol: 30 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.9:
+
+ NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
+
+ - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to
+ send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink).
+ This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most
+ people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having
+ an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the
+ transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as
+ separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.)
+ Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs.
+
+ - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now
+ sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r
+ along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not
+ understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to
+ either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually.
+
+ - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output
+ with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made.
+ Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)".
+
+ - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a
+ symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also
+ allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has
+ the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's
+ hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details.
+
+ - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile
+ for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit
+ with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync
+ daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic
+ breaking of locks to be done).
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon
+ config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these
+ options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir,
+ --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from.
+
+ - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation
+ on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable
+ daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't
+ taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use
+ it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id-
+ translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter
+ for full details.
+
+ - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the
+ chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the
+ module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for
+ libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the
+ rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside
+
+ - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the
+ rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the
+ --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option
+ was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated
+ source file.
+
+ - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
+ it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
+
+ - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
+ option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for
+ matching items.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the
+ negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it
+ no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
+ directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+
+ - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
+ output as a creation event, not a change event.
+
+ - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
+ when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
+
+ - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
+
+ - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
+ any missing backup directories are now created.
+
+ - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
+ --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
+
+ - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
+
+ - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code
+ now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly).
+
+ - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we
+ are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems
+ when transfering read-only files.
+
+ - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at
+ the end of the run about a partial transfer.
+
+ - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more
+ options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls,
+ --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify.
+
+ - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older
+ versions would update some files while writing the batch).
+
+ - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken
+ symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code
+ already handled this for --copy-links).
+
+ - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run.
+
+ - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's
+ owner when rsync is running as the same user.
+
+ - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is
+ kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so
+ that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of
+ blocks increases.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
+ to another 3.x 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.
+
+ - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical
+ option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
+ having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
+ shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one
+ (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that
+ local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} .
+
+ - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of
+ the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args
+ to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting,
+ and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[).
+
+ - 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, and it even
+ supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old,
+ ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
+ dir.
+
+ - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is
+ an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
+ supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you
+ need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of
+ rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.
+
+ - 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.
+ It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server.
+ There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon.
+
+ - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
+ one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to
+ make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open().
+ If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then
+ rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by
+ default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default
+ value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example,
+ "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an
+ explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
+
+ - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character-
+ set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You
+ can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the
+ client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client).
+
+ - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of
+ file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z).
+
+ - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include:
+ *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg
+ The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly.
+
+ - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
+ deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older
+ versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
+
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
+ about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure
+ what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1,
+ as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though
+ older versions don't warn).
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules
+ that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g.
+ -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
+
+ - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g.
+ --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory
+ that does not exist.
+
+ - If we get an ENOSYS error setting the time on a symlink, we don't
+ complain about it anymore (for those systems that even support the
+ setting of the modify-time on a symlink).
+
+ - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4.
+
+ - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the
+ destination file, which speeds up file appending.
+
+ - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append
+ option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For
+ compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
+ talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
+
+ - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a
+ connection timeout for rsync daemon access.
+
+ - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
+ that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
+
+ - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
+
+ - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same-
+ named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows
+ rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one
+ that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster
+ than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort().
+
+ - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
+
+ - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing
+ through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
+ omitted the --server option.
+
+ - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than
+ the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new
+ categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing
+ an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be
+ transferred.
+
+ - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
+
+ - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing
+ older sections of a pool's memory.
+
+ - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with
+ some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a
+ better license than the old code.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
+
+ - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS
+ (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access).
+ Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git.
+
+ - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The
+ autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the
+ normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all
+ generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the
+ prepare-source script's fetch option).
+
+ - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the
+ rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff).
+ This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named
+ rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz.
+
+ - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a
+ complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible.
+
+ - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub-
+ directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows
+ someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is
+ useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs,
+ but another filesystem does).
+
+ - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
+ development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync
+ versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner.
+ This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may
+ interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not
+ interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which
+ does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be
+ incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development).
+
+ - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change
+ in the 3.0.0 release.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.8:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
+ once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
+
+ - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
+ --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
+ the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
+ these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
+ (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
+ incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+ how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+ directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+ generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+ also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+ the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+ process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+ receiving files.)
+
+ - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
+ update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
+ notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
+ instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
+ relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
+ gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
+ destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
+ when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
+
+ - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
+ trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
+
+ - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
+ will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
+ even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
+
+ - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+ chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+ from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+ over and over again).
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+ it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+ to successfully update a destination file.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
+ merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
+ only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
+ done for global include/excludes).
+
+ - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
+ the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+
+ - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
+ the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+
+ - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
+ permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
+ problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
+ will not update a file that has no write permissions).
+
+ - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
+ are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
+ directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
+
+ - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
+ overly long.
+
+ - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
+ longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
+ the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
+ may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
+ can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
+ They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
+ page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
+ settings when starting a daemon.
+
+ - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
+ it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
+ alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
+
+ - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
+ the daemon's config file.
+
+ - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
+ deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
+ non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
+ up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
+ was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
+ a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
+ (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
+ still behaves in the same way as before.)
+
+ - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
+ from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+
+ - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
+ the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
+ both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used as a unique ID
+ if the pre-xfer command wants to cache some arg/request info for the
+ post-xfer command.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
+ changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
+ calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
+ an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
+ values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
+ functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
+ could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
+ that conditionally compiles the code.
+
+ - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
+ top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
+
+ - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
+ The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
+ was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
+ any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
+
+ - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
+ define it.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+ make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
+ The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD
+ compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended
+ file-attributes.
+
+ - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
+ maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
+ without actually running as root. It does this using a special
+ extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
+ acls.diff).
+
+ - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
+ better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
+
+ - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions.
+
+ - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+ consistent opening comments.
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+ wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+ is in effect.
+
+ - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+ receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+ never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+ the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
+
+ - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+ that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+ beyond the failed read's data.
+
+ - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+ in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+ init).
+
+ - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+ instead of silently ignoring the option.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+ fifos) from being linked.
+
+ - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+ configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+ creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+ error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
+
+ - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+ message.
+
+ - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
+
+ - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+ that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+
+ - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+ attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+ taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable
+ io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also
+ elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message.
+
+ - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+ compatibility functions.
+
+ - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
+ buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
+
+ - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
+
+ - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
+ a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+ actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
+
+\f
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
+
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices
+ (character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and
+ named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files
+ under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the
+ "--specials" option, below.
+
+ - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
+ now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
+ your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
+ for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
+ "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
+ digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
+ (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
+ escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
+ (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
+ the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below.
+
+ Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
+ so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
+ suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
+ old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
+
+ BUG FIXES:
+
+ - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
+ files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
+
+ - Fixed a potential hang in a remote generator: when the receiver gets a
+ read-error on the socket, it now signals the generator about this so that
+ the generator does not try to send any of the terminating error messages
+ to the client (avoiding a potential hang in some setups).
+
+ - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
+
+ - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this
+ error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting
+ it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors).
+
+ - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+ permissions without recreating the file.
+
+ - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
+ we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
+ hostspec as a filename.
+
+ - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
+ permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
+ the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
+
+ - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+ algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
+
+ - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+ fails.
+
+ - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
+
+ - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+ require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
+
+ - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+ the exit status properly and generate a better error.
+
+ - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
+ --link-dest, or --compare-dest. Also improved how the verbose output
+ handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
+ "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest).
+
+ - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
+ that have a path component containing a slash.
+
+ - If the code reading a filter/exclude file gets an EINTR error, rsync now
+ clears the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
+
+ - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
+ suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
+ reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
+
+ - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
+ --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
+ to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
+
+ - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was
+ also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning
+ about being unable to create the missing directory.
+
+ - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the
+ destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or
+ device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no
+ longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir.
+
+ - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied
+ directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative).
+
+ - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
+ --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
+
+ - Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this
+ when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error).
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it
+ was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a
+ user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing
+ daemon-rsync connection.
+
+ - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer
+ forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave
+ it set.
+
+ - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong
+ checksum for the current file offset.
+
+ - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non-
+ directory destination arg.
+
+ ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
+ are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files).
+
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
+
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
+
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to
+ allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
+ and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
+
+ - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
+ high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
+
+ - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
+ --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
+ the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old
+ meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you
+ just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".)
+
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+
+ - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
+
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" and
+ "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a per-module
+ basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. (See
+ the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
+ information about the transfer.)
+
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
+
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
+ implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive
+ --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
+ that is implied by -a.
+
+ - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
+ be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
+
+ - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
+ a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
+ files copied to and from the daemon.
+
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
+ sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
+ delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+
+ - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
+ --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files
+ with the backup suffix are not deleted.
+
+ - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
+ better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+ to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+ a total of 9999.
+
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
+ stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
+ dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+
+ - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
+ discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
+ easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
+ just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
+
+ - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
+ unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
+ the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
+ client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
+ needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+
+ - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special
+ files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices
+ option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block).
+ The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a
+ still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that
+ omits device copying.
+
+ - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user
+ activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
+ to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
+ useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
+ receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+
+ - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
+ options used to contact a daemon rsync.
+
+ - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
+ setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
+ --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
+
+ - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
+ into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
+
+ - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
+ execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
+ not desired.
+
+ - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
+ that it receives.
+
+ - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
+ (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
+
+ - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
+
+ - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
+ removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
+ clump up all the removals at the end).
+
+ - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
+ PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator
+ can get the child-exit status from the receiver.
+
+ - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
+ sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
+
+ - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
+ and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
+ the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
+
+ - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
+
+ - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
+ improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
+ --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
+ --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
+ discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
+ matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
+ documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
+
+ - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
+ xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - We now use sigaction() and sigprocmask() if possible, and fall back on
+ signal() if not. Using sigprocmask() ensures that rsync enables all the
+ signals that it needs, just in case it was started in a masked state.
+
+ - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+ MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+
+ - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+ with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+
+ - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+ the VA_COPY macro.
+
+ - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
+ recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+
+ - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be
+ supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less
+ string copying.
+
+ - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
+ replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the
+ output going to the terminal.
+
+ - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+
+ - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make
+ it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster.
+
+ DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+ - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
+ the previous -p0. Also, the version included in the release tar now
+ affect generated files (e.g. configure, rsync.1, proto.h, etc.), so
+ it is no longer necessary to run autoconf and/or yodl unless you're
+ applying a patch that was checked out from CVS.
+
+ - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
+ configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
+ the newly patched feature.
+
+ - There is a new script, "prepare-source" than can be used to update the
+ various generated files (proto.h, configure, etc.) even before configure
+ has created the Makefile (this is mainly useful when patching the source
+ with a patch that doesn't affect generated files).
+
+ - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affected by a file such
+ as ~/.popt.
+
+\f
NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (28 Jul 2005)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.5:
combined with --link-dest).
- The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
- without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as though
- it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
- file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
- a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
- totally unchanged items).
+ (1) Without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as
+ though it had been changed; it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for
+ the file. (2) With -i it would output all dots for the unchanged
+ attributes of a hard-link; it now changes those dots to spaces, as is
+ done for other totally unchanged items.
- When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
(since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
- - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator
- is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress
- output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.)
+ - The output of the items that are being updated by the generator (dirs,
+ symlinks, devices) is now intermingled in the proper order with the
+ output from the items that the receiver is updating (regular files)
+ when pulling. This misordering was particularly bad when --progress
+ was specified. (Requires protocol 29.)
- When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while
the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic
user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
using the "2>&1").
+ - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from got passed to a daemon.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
- Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending
files to an rsync daemon.
+ - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from was sent to a server
+ sender.
+
INTERNAL:
- Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large
* The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
Zimmerman)
- * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
+ * Combining "::" syntax with the --rsh/-e option now uses the
specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
\f
Partial Protocol History
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
+ 28 Jan 2018 3.1.3 31
+ 21 Dec 2015 3.1.2 31
+ 22 Jun 2014 3.1.1 31
+ 28 Sep 2013 3.1.0 31 Aug 2008 31
+ 23 Sep 2011 3.0.9 30
+ 26 Mar 2011 3.0.8 30
+ 31 Dec 2009 3.0.7 30
+ 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30
+ 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30
+ 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30
+ 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30
+ 08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30
+ 03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30
+ 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30
+ 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29
+ 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29
+ 11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29
+ 28 Jul 2005 2.6.6 29
01 Jun 2005 2.6.5 29
30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29
30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28
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