| NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED) |
| Protocol: 29 (unchanged) |
| Changes since 2.6.4: |
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| BUG FIXES: |
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| - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did |
| not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the |
| rsyncd.conf file. |
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| - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write |
| permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode. |
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| - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the |
| basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i |
| is in effect. |
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| - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after |
| processing. |
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| - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in |
| addition to its use in daemon mode). |
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| - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete |
| processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a |
| newline. |
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| - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer |
| to it as a "file". |
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| ENHANCEMENTS: |
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| - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead |
| of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any |
| actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all |
| the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you |
| are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). |
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| - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped |
| characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output |
| using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\". |
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| - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include |
| some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user, |
| password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.) |
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| - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that |
| it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we |
| really did expect the socket to close). |
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| - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall |
| back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally |
| silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach). |
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| INTERNAL: |
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| - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). |
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| BUILD CHANGES: |
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| - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented |
| rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support. |
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| - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale(). |
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| - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they |
| refuse to fix its broken handling of large files). |
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| - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that |
| the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s |
| presence based on the presence of the off64_t type. |