| NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (UNRELEASED) |
| Protocol: 27 (unchanged) |
| Changes since 2.6.0: |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| * The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a |
| "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. |
| (Bardur Arantsson) |
| |
| * Lower memory use and more optimal transfer of file data. |
| (see the INTERNAL section). |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| |
| * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user |
| when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -u was |
| specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on |
| the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might |
| cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to |
| get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug). |
| (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Keep per-file track of the sending of literal data with |
| --partial so that an interrupted transfer doesn't keep a |
| shorter temp file when no new data has been transfered over |
| the wire. |
| |
| * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian |
| machines. (Jay Fenlason) |
| |
| INTERNAL: |
| |
| * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty |
| large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt) |
| |
| * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made |
| some significant reductions in user CPU time for large file |
| sets. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent. |
| (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation. |
| (J.W. Schultz) |
| |
| * Got rid of support for protocol versions 17 and 18 (which are |
| both over 6 years old). |
| |
| * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28). |
| |
| * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28). |
| |
| * Less memory used for holding --checksum data. |
| |
| |
| NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004) |
| Protocol: 27 (changed) |
| Changes since 2.5.7: |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to |
| change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh". |
| |
| * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0. |
| Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the |
| files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version |
| 27. (J.W. Schultz) |
| |
| * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The |
| per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm |
| provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync |
| algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4 |
| checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda) |
| |
| * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary |
| unless the verbose option was specified at least twice. |
| |
| * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the |
| sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the |
| file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified. |
| |
| * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| |
| * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards. |
| This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the |
| matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not |
| cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like |
| what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes. |
| For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep. |
| [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the |
| "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all |
| versions.] |
| |
| - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo |
| does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.] |
| |
| - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of |
| the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path, |
| just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*" |
| to get the old behavior in all versions.] |
| |
| - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched |
| against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if |
| there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar" |
| would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as |
| "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the |
| old behavior in all versions.] |
| |
| * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now |
| properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the |
| user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the |
| block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64. |
| Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum. |
| (Craig Barratt) |
| |
| * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in |
| mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit |
| counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for |
| file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt) |
| |
| * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and |
| multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir. |
| (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN. |
| |
| * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g. |
| |
| * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more |
| consistent manner. |
| |
| * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen) |
| |
| * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log |
| when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow" |
| and "hosts deny" parameters in config file. |
| |
| * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1. |
| |
| * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file |
| that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and |
| Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files |
| to not get backed up. |
| |
| * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode |
| 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the |
| backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree). |
| |
| * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner. |
| |
| * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly |
| what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when |
| using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing |
| special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or |
| --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the |
| same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a |
| regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz) |
| |
| * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and |
| readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated |
| files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz) |
| |
| * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings |
| if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt. |
| |
| INTERNAL: |
| |
| * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped |
| supporting. (J.W. Schultz) |
| |
| * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new |
| defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison) |
| |
| * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a |
| lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides. |
| Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value |
| we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes). |
| (Wayne Davison) |