1 NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
7 - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
8 escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
9 output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
10 is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
11 can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
13 - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
14 output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
15 status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
16 this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
17 to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we
18 now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
19 exit with the appropriate exit status.
23 - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
24 not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
27 - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
28 that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
30 - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
31 permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
33 - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
34 basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
37 - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
40 - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
41 addition to its use in daemon mode).
43 - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
44 processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
47 - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
48 as a "directory", not a "file".
50 - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
51 generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
52 the file by the destination filename.
54 - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
55 generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
57 - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
58 to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
61 - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
62 no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
63 receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
66 - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
67 sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
69 - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
70 trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
72 - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
73 handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
75 - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
76 --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
79 - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
80 re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
81 (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
84 - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
86 - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
87 the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
88 messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
90 - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
91 specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
94 - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
95 transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
98 - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
99 "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
101 - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
102 for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST.
106 - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
107 of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
108 actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
109 the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
110 are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
112 - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
113 (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
114 periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
115 can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
117 - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
118 sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
119 the checksum data for a large file.
121 - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
122 some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
123 password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
125 - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
126 it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
127 really did expect the socket to close).
129 - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
130 back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning). This is
131 better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
132 daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
133 necessary to see the error on stderr).
135 - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
136 to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
138 - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
139 support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
140 when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
141 other similar options being added at some point).
145 - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
146 discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
148 - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
150 - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
151 someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
155 - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
156 rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
158 - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
160 - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
161 refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
163 - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
164 the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
165 presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
167 - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
169 - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
170 enables the optional copying of extended attributes.