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NEWS for rsync 3.1.0 (28 Sep 2013)
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Protocol: 31 (changed)
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Changes since 3.0.9:
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OUTPUT CHANGES:
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- Output numbers in 3-digit groups by default (e.g. 1,234,567). See the
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--human-readable option for a way to turn it off. See also the daemon's
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"log format" parameter and related command-line options (including
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--out-format) for a modifier that can be used to request digit-grouping
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or human-readable output in log escapes. (Note that log output is
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unchanged by default.)
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- The --list-only option is now affected by the --human-readable setting.
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It will display digit groupings by default, and unit suffixes if higher
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levels of readability are requested. Also, the column width for the size
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output has increased from 11 to 14 characters when human readability is
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enabled. Use --no-h to get the old-style output and column size.
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- The output of the --progress option has changed: the string "xfer" was
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shortened to "xfr", and the string "to-check" was shortened to "to-chk",
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both designed to make room for the (by default) wider display of file
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size numbers without making the total line-length longer. Also, when
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incremental recursion is enabled, the string "ir-chk" will be used
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instead of "to-chk" up until the incremental-recursion scan is done,
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letting you know that the value to check and the total value will still
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be increasing as new files are found.
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- Enhanced the --stats output: 1) to mention how many files were created
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(protocol >= 28), 2) to mention how many files were deleted (a new line
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for protocol 31, but only output when --delete is in effect), and 3) to
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follow the file-count, created-count, and deleted-count with a subcount
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list that shows the counts by type. The wording of the transferred count
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has also changed so that it is clearer that it is only a count of regular
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files.
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BUG FIXES:
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- Fixed a bug in the iconv code when EINVAL or EILSEQ is returned with a
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full output buffer.
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- Fixed some rare bugs in --iconv processing that might cause a multibyte
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character to get translated incorrectly.
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- Fixed a bogus "vanished file" error if some files were specified with
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"./" prefixes and others were not.
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- Fixed a bug in --sparse where an extra gap could get inserted after a
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partial write.
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- Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
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it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
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- Improved the propagation of abnormal-exit error messages. This should
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help the client side to receive errors from the server when it is exiting
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abnormally, and should also avoid dying with an "connection unexpectedly
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closed" exit when the closed connection is really expected.
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- The sender now checks each file it plans to remove to ensure that it
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hasn't changed from the first stat's info. This helps to avoid losing
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file data when the user is not using the option in a safe manner.
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- Fixed a data-duplication bug in the compress option that made compression
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less efficient. This improves protocol 31 onward, while behaving in a
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compatible (buggy) manner with older rsync protocols.
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- When creating a temp-file, rsync is now a bit smarter about it dot-char
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choices, which can fix a problem on OS X with names that start with "..".
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- Rsync now sets a cleanup flag for --inplace and --append transfers that
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will flush the write buffer if the transfer aborts. This ensures that
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more received data gets written out to the disk on an aborted transfer
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(which is quite helpful on a slow, flaky connection).
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- The reads that map_ptr() now does are aligned on 1K boundaries. This
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helps some filesystems and/or files that don't like unaligned reads.
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- Fix an issue in the msleep() function if time jumps backwards.
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- Fix daemon-server module-name splitting bug where an arg would get split
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even if --protect-args was used.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
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- Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
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for things like sending a remote --log-file=FILE or --fake-super option.
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- Added the --info=FLAGS and --debug=FLAGS options to allow finer-grained
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control over what is output. Added an extra type of --progress output
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using --info=progress2.
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- The --msgs2stderr option can help with debugging rsync by allowing the
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debug messages to get output to stderr rather than travel via the socket
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protocol.
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- Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
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either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
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missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
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generates an error).
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- Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
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- Added the --usermap/--groupmap/--chown options for manipulating file
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ownership during the copy.
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- Added the "%C" escape to the log-output handling, which will output the
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MD5 checksum of any transferred file, or all files if --checksum was
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specified (when protocol 30 or above is in effect).
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- Added the "reverse lookup" parameter to the rsync daemon config file to
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allow reverse-DNS lookups to be disabled.
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- Added a forward-DNS lookup for the daemon's hosts allow/deny config. Can
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be disabled via "forward lookup" parameter (defaults to enabled).
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- Added a way for more than one group to be specified in the daemon's
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config file, including a way to specify that you want all of the
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specified user's groups without having to name them. Also changed the
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daemon to complain about an inability to set explicitly-specified uid/gid
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values, even when not run by a super-user.
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- The daemon now tries to send the user the error messages from the
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pre-xfer exec script when it fails.
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- Improved the use of alt-dest options into an existing hierarchy of files:
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If a match is found in an alt-dir, it takes precedence over an existing
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file. (We'll need to wait for a future version before attribute-changes
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on otherwise unchanged files are safe when using an existing hierarchy.)
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- Added per-user authorization options and group-authorization support to
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the daemon's "auth users" parameter.
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- Added a way to reference environment variables in a daemon's config file
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(using %VAR% references).
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- When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
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the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
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- Avoid re-sending xattr info for hard-linked files w/the same xattrs
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(protocol 31).
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- The backup code was improved to use better logic maintaining the backup
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directory hierarchy. Also, when a file is being backed up, rsync tries
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to hard-link it into place so that the upcoming replacement of the
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destination file will be atomic (for the normal, non-inplace logic).
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- Added the ability to synchronize nano-second modified times.
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- Added a few more default suffixes for the "dont compress" settings.
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- Added the checking of the RSYNC_PROTECT_ARGS environment variable to allow
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the default for the --protect-args command-line option to be overridden.
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- Added the --preallocate command-line option.
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- Allow --password-file=- to read the password from stdin (filename "-").
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- Rsync now comes packaged with an rsync-ssl helper script that can be
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used to contact a remote rsync daemon using a piped-stunnel command.
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It also includes an stunnel config file to run the server side to
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support ssl daemon connections. See the packaging/lsb/rsync.spec
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file for one way to package the resulting files. (Suggestions for
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how to make this even easier to install & use are welcomed.)
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- Improved the speed of some --inplace updates when there are lots of
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identical checksum blocks that end up being unusable.
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- Added the --outbuf=N|L|B option for choosing the output buffering.
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- Repeating the --fuzzy option now causes the code to look for fuzzy
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matches inside alt-dest directories too.
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- The --chmod option now supports numeric modes, e.g. --chmod=644,D755
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- Added some Solaris xattr code.
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- Made an rsync daemon (the listening process) exit with a 0 status when
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it was signaled to die. This helps launchd.
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- Improved the RSYNC_* environment variables for the pre-xfer exec script:
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when a daemon is sent multiple request args, they are now joined into a
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single return value (separated by spaces) so that the RSYNC_REQUEST
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environment variable is accurate for any "pre-xfer exec". The values in
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RSYNC_ARG# vars are no longer truncated at the "." arg (prior to the
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request dirs/files), so that all the requested values are also listed
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(separately) in RSYNC_ARG# variables.
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EXTRAS:
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- Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
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it easy to configure a simple rsync daemon in the current directory.
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- Added the "mapfrom" and "mapto" scripts to the support directory, which
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makes it easier to do user/group mapping in a local transfer based on
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passwd/group files from another machine.
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- There's a new, improved version of the lsh script in the support dir:
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it's written in perl and supports -u without resorting to using sudo
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(when run as root). The old shell version is now named lsh.sh.
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- There is a helper script named rsync-slash-strip in the support directory
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for anyone that wants to change the way rsync handles args with trailing
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slashes. (e.g. arg/ would get stripped to arg while arg/. would turn into
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arg/).
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INTERNAL:
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- The I/O code was rewritten to be simpler and do bigger buffered reads
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over the socket. The I/O between the receiver and the generator was
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changed to be standard multiplexed-I/O (like that over the socket).
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- The sender tries to use any dead time while the generator is looking for
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files to transfer in order to do sender-side directory scanning in a more
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parallel manner.
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- A daemon can now inform a client about a daemon-configured timeout value
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so that the client can assist in the keep-alive activity (protocol 31).
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- The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendible, to
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read better, and do better sanity checking.
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- Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather
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than casting them to a double and using a %.0f conversion.
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- The pool_alloc library has received some minor improvements in alignment
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handling.
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- Added init_stat_x() function to avoid duplication of acl/xattr init code.
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- The included zlib was upgraded from 1.2.3 to 1.2.8.
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- Rsync can now be compiled to use an unmodified zlib library instead of
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the tweaked one that is included with rsync. This will eventually
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become the default, at which point we'll start the countdown to removing
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the included zlib. Until then, feel free to configure using:
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./configure --with-included-zlib=no
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DEVELOPER RELATED:
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- Added more conditional debug output.
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- Fixed some build issues for android and minix.
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NEWS for rsync 3.0.9 (23 Sep 2011)
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Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
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Changes since 3.0.8:
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BUG FIXES:
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- Fix a crash bug in checksum scanning when --inplace is used.
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- Fix a hang if a hard-linked file cannot be opened by the sender (e.g.
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if it has no read permission).
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- Fix preservation of a symlink's system xattrs (e.g. selinux) on Linux.
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- Fix a memory leak in the xattr code.
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- Fixed a bug with --delete-excluded when a filter merge file has a rule
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that specifies a receiver-only side restriction.
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- Fix a bug with the modifying of unwritable directories.
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- Fix --fake-super's interaction with --link-dest same-file comparisons.
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- Fix the updating of the curr_dir buffer to avoid a duplicate slash.
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- Fix the directory permissions on an implied dot-dir when using --relative
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(e.g. /outside/path/././send/path).
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- Fixed some too-long sleeping instances when using --bwlimit.
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- Fixed when symlink ownership difference-checking gets compiled into
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unchanged_attrs().
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- Improved the socket-error reporting when multiple protocols fail.
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- Fixed a case where a socket error could reference just-freed memory.
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- Failing to use a password file that was specified on the command-line is
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now a fatal error.
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- Fix the non-root updating of directories that don't have the read and/or
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execute permission.
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- Make daemon-excluded file errors more error-like.
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- Fix a compilation issue on older C compilers (due to a misplaced var
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declaration).
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- Make configure avoid finding socketpair on cygwin.
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- Avoid trying to reference SO_BROADCAST if the OS doesn't support it.
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- Fix some issues with the post-processing of the man pages.
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- Fixed the user home-dir handling in the support/lsh script.
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- Some minor manpage improvements.
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NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (26 Mar 2011)
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Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
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Changes since 3.0.7:
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BUG FIXES:
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- Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
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exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
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--backup-dir that is extra extra large.
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- Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without
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preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during
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the transfer (CVE-2011-1097). This fixes some assert errors in the
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hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums (via -c) that
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should have matched.
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- Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
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and the transfer is using ACLs or xattrs.
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- Fixed a hang if a really large file is being processed by an rsync that
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can't handle 64-bit numbers. Rsync will now complain about the file
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being too big and skip it.
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- For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
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xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The un-copied
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files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
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data that is not going to be used.) This ensures that if the user uses
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--no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
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extended information from special files that are in the file list (but
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not in the transfer).
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- Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash. This
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avoids a potential error where a filename could be interpreted as a
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(usually invalid) option.
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- Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
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--skip-compress.
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- If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
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will now disallow access to that module.
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- If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
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reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
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- If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
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lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
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system where the newer function is not around. This helps to make the
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rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.
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- Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
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compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
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protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
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it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.
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- Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
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hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
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code fails.
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- The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
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position. The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
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an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.
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- Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.
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- Fixed a bug that prevented --numeric-ids from disabling the translation
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of user/group IDs for ACLs.
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- Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
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option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
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changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
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trying to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.
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- Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
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file.
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- The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
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attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.
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- Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
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Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
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NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.
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- Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.
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- Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.
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- Avoid re-setting xattrs on a hard-linked file w/the same xattrs.
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- Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
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user writable.
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- Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
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into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).
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- If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
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the middle of adjacent high-bit characters. This prevents a potential
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filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an
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invalid multi-byte sequence.
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- If a muli-protocol socket connection fails (i.e., when contacting a
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daemon), we now report all the failures, not just the last one. This
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avoids losing a relevant error (e.g. an IPv4 connection-refused error)
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that happened before the final error (e.g. an IPv6 protocol-not-supported
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error).
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- Generate a transfer error if we try to call chown with a -1 for a uid or
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a gid (which is not settable).
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- Fixed the working of --force when used with --one-file-system.
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- Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
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reject an attempt to supply one (can configure --with-included-popt if
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your system's popt library doesn't yet have this fix).
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- A couple minor option tweaks to the support/rrsync script, and also some
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regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.
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- Fixed some issues in the support/mnt-excl script.
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- Various manpage improvements.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
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- Added ".hg/" to the default cvs excludes (see -C & --cvs-exclude).
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DEVELOPER RELATED:
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- Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
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- A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
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- Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
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- Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.
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- Fixed configure's checking for iconv routines for newer OS X versions.
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- Fixed the testsuite/xattrs.test script on OS X.
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NEWS for rsync 3.0.7 (31 Dec 2009)
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Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
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Changes since 3.0.6:
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BUG FIXES:
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- Fixed a bogus free when using --xattrs with --backup.
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- Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file
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that hasn't really been created.
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- Fixed a problem with --compress (-z) where the receiving side could
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return the error "inflate (token) returned -5".
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- Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it
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noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory (both
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sides of the transfer must be at least 3.0.7).
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- Improved --skip-compress's error handling of bad character-sets and got
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rid of a lingering debug fprintf().
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- Fixed the daemon's conveyance of io_error value from the sender.
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- An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid().
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- Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that
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needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior.
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- An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
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its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
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- Improved the "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message.
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- Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case
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where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data
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to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing).
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- Some misc manpage improvements.
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- 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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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).
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (28 Jul 2005)
|
||
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.5:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more
|
||
secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did
|
||
not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's
|
||
zlib 1.1.4.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
|
||
This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
|
||
(e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
|
||
combined with --link-dest).
|
||
|
||
- The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
|
||
(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.
|
||
|
||
- A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
|
||
time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug where the 'p' (permissions) itemized-changes flag might get
|
||
set too often (if some non-significant mode bits differed).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being
|
||
unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the
|
||
directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that
|
||
ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing
|
||
destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version).
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
- Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
|
||
per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
|
||
|
||
- The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
|
||
that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
|
||
also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
|
||
of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a
|
||
normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer.
|
||
|
||
- Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or
|
||
improved.
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
|
||
NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
|
||
find in the /etc/group file).
|
||
|
||
- Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
|
||
-i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
|
||
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.4:
|
||
|
||
OUTPUT CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
|
||
escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
|
||
output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
|
||
is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
|
||
can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
|
||
|
||
- If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
|
||
output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
|
||
status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
|
||
this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
|
||
to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we
|
||
now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
|
||
exit with the appropriate exit status.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
|
||
not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
|
||
rsyncd.conf file.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
|
||
(rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
|
||
write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
|
||
only caused an annoying warning message).
|
||
|
||
- If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
|
||
basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
|
||
is in effect.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
|
||
processing.
|
||
|
||
- Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
|
||
addition to its use in daemon mode).
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
|
||
as a "directory", not a "file".
|
||
|
||
- When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
|
||
generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
|
||
the file by the destination filename.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
|
||
generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
|
||
to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
|
||
of the cluster.
|
||
|
||
- When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
|
||
no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
|
||
receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
|
||
the mount-point dir.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
|
||
sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
|
||
|
||
- Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
|
||
trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
|
||
|
||
- Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
|
||
handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
|
||
--relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
|
||
slash.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
|
||
re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
|
||
(-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
|
||
trailing slash.
|
||
|
||
- Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
|
||
|
||
- Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
|
||
the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
|
||
messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
|
||
|
||
- If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
|
||
"../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
|
||
dir of the destination).
|
||
|
||
- If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
|
||
transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
|
||
delete anything.
|
||
|
||
- If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
|
||
"deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
|
||
|
||
- Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
|
||
for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
|
||
compatibility with OS variations).
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
- 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).
|
||
|
||
- When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
|
||
(e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
|
||
periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
|
||
can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
|
||
sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
|
||
the checksum data for a large file.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
|
||
some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user,
|
||
password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
|
||
|
||
- 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).
|
||
|
||
- If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
|
||
back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better
|
||
than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
|
||
daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
|
||
necessary to see the error on stderr).
|
||
|
||
- The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
|
||
instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
|
||
non-daemon transfer).
|
||
|
||
- Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
|
||
support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
|
||
when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
|
||
other similar options being added at some point).
|
||
|
||
INTERNAL:
|
||
|
||
- Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to
|
||
better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
|
||
messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
|
||
locales).
|
||
|
||
- Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
|
||
|
||
- Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
|
||
someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
|
||
setlocale() in the binary.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
|
||
rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
|
||
|
||
- Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
|
||
|
||
- Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
|
||
refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
|
||
|
||
- Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
|
||
the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
|
||
presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
|
||
|
||
- Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
|
||
(from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
|
||
|
||
- Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
|
||
|
||
- Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
|
||
that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005)
|
||
Protocol: 29 (changed)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.3:
|
||
|
||
OUTPUT CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
|
||
it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
|
||
sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
|
||
|
||
- The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
|
||
sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
|
||
being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
|
||
(Requires protocol 29 for a pull.)
|
||
|
||
- The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides
|
||
"send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars).
|
||
This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file.
|
||
|
||
- When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now
|
||
avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances.
|
||
As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer
|
||
items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to
|
||
the transfer, so --verbose is now the equivalent of a --log-format of
|
||
'%n%L' (which outputs the name and any link info). If the log output
|
||
must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time the name
|
||
is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was specified
|
||
(so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the full
|
||
--log-format output will come after).
|
||
|
||
- Non-printable characters in filenames are replaced with a '?' to
|
||
avoid corrupting the screen or generating empty lines in the output.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
|
||
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
|
||
file).
|
||
|
||
- The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list
|
||
of changes that would be output without --dry-run.
|
||
|
||
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
|
||
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
|
||
|
||
- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed
|
||
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
|
||
mkstemp(). (Fix derived from cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
|
||
the sender, and the file-list is large.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could
|
||
merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a multiplexed
|
||
packet of data if only part of that data had been written out to the
|
||
socket when the message from the generator arrived.
|
||
|
||
- We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
|
||
FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in some compatibility code using
|
||
mkfifo() and socket() when necessary.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. Also,
|
||
if the --max-delete limit is exceeded during a run, we now output a
|
||
warning about this at the end of the run and exit with a new error
|
||
code (25).
|
||
|
||
- One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
|
||
|
||
- The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect
|
||
readable symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file.
|
||
|
||
- If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will
|
||
affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try
|
||
to set the user and group of a symlink.
|
||
|
||
- The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
|
||
rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
|
||
|
||
- When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, where DIR is a
|
||
relative path, the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
|
||
file that was put into the partial-dir.
|
||
|
||
- If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is
|
||
enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate
|
||
backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file).
|
||
|
||
- One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
|
||
|
||
- The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
|
||
server sender.
|
||
|
||
- If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
|
||
client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
|
||
compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
|
||
if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have
|
||
exited with an error for large files).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and
|
||
sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually
|
||
specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior
|
||
versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data
|
||
properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification.
|
||
|
||
- If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
|
||
being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about
|
||
the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
|
||
specified) and exit with a new error code (6).
|
||
|
||
- A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
|
||
(since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
|
||
there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
|
||
|
||
- 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
|
||
(looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time
|
||
touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that
|
||
should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to
|
||
make progress. (Requires protocol 29.)
|
||
|
||
- The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the
|
||
items in the transfer (the size might be undefined on some OSes).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it
|
||
back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and
|
||
the daemon was the receiver.
|
||
|
||
- The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differed in
|
||
(the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR.
|
||
|
||
- When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed
|
||
the change-report output for the directory so that we don't report
|
||
an identical directory as changed.
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
|
||
use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
|
||
|
||
- Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
|
||
from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
|
||
transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the
|
||
default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now also available as
|
||
--delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that
|
||
will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without
|
||
a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so
|
||
an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
|
||
file-deleting options (including the new --remove-sent-files option).
|
||
|
||
- All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
|
||
Previously an duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the
|
||
receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
|
||
algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files
|
||
inside the transfer).
|
||
|
||
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
|
||
that it locally copies identical files instead of hard-linking them.
|
||
|
||
- Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
|
||
--link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
|
||
patches dir and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
|
||
|
||
- Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
|
||
|
||
- The daemon-mode options are now separated from the normal rsync
|
||
options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it
|
||
impossible to start a daemon that has improper default option values
|
||
(which could cause problems when a client connects, such as hanging
|
||
or crashing).
|
||
|
||
- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
|
||
to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
|
||
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
|
||
|
||
- Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
|
||
the patches dir.) Also added "address". The command-line options
|
||
take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
|
||
|
||
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
|
||
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
|
||
partial file.
|
||
|
||
- The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
|
||
--link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
|
||
29.)
|
||
|
||
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
|
||
without recursion. Any directories that are encountered are created
|
||
on the destination. Specifying a directory with a trailing slash
|
||
copies its immediate contents to the destination.
|
||
|
||
- The --files-from option now implies --dirs (-d).
|
||
|
||
- Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to
|
||
put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
|
||
internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*"
|
||
for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically
|
||
(behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon,
|
||
but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
|
||
the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
|
||
|
||
- Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating
|
||
the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
|
||
option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
|
||
the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide
|
||
an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
|
||
the patches dir.)
|
||
|
||
- Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
|
||
rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
|
||
that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
|
||
filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
|
||
This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
|
||
include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
|
||
versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but
|
||
backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.
|
||
(Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.)
|
||
|
||
- Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
|
||
a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
|
||
--partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
|
||
makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
|
||
|
||
- If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
|
||
reduced.
|
||
|
||
- Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
|
||
setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
|
||
|
||
- The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
|
||
they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a
|
||
non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone
|
||
very wrong).
|
||
|
||
- Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a
|
||
more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect
|
||
is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the
|
||
rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too.
|
||
|
||
- Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file
|
||
for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm
|
||
only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it
|
||
does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file
|
||
was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy
|
||
name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it
|
||
needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and
|
||
enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
|
||
|
||
- Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files
|
||
between systems.
|
||
|
||
- The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal
|
||
enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6
|
||
literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.)
|
||
|
||
- When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open
|
||
one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs.
|
||
|
||
- When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to
|
||
avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync
|
||
to detach.
|
||
|
||
- The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or
|
||
--read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see
|
||
what would happen without --dry-run.
|
||
|
||
- The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only
|
||
variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the
|
||
read-only side can succeed.
|
||
|
||
- The log-format % escapes can now have a numeric field width in
|
||
between the % and the escape letter (e.g. "%-40n %08p").
|
||
|
||
- Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
|
||
|
||
SUPPORT FILES:
|
||
|
||
- Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will
|
||
transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into
|
||
place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when
|
||
pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to
|
||
effect its update.
|
||
|
||
- Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the
|
||
/proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will
|
||
exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The
|
||
excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly
|
||
anchored.
|
||
|
||
- Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make
|
||
a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test
|
||
for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and
|
||
the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error.
|
||
|
||
- Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe
|
||
Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only
|
||
certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation.
|
||
|
||
INTERNAL:
|
||
|
||
- Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
|
||
the socket.
|
||
|
||
- Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so
|
||
that it is easier to maintain.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
|
||
consistency and proper size.
|
||
|
||
- Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
|
||
|
||
- Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
|
||
|
||
- Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
|
||
find a variable with at least 32 bits.
|
||
|
||
PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
|
||
|
||
- A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This
|
||
indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The
|
||
generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when
|
||
dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message),
|
||
which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and
|
||
less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is
|
||
now outputting all the file-change info messages).
|
||
|
||
- If a file is being hard-linked, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit is enabled
|
||
in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately
|
||
follows in vstring format (see below).
|
||
|
||
- If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the
|
||
ITEM_BASIS_TYPE_FOLLOWS bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single
|
||
byte follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that
|
||
indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit
|
||
is set in the flag-word and the name of the match in vstring format
|
||
follows the basis byte. A vstring is a variable length string that
|
||
has its size written prior to the string, and no terminating null.
|
||
If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length is a single byte. If
|
||
it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is written as ((len >> 8) |
|
||
0x80) followed by (len % 0x100).
|
||
|
||
- The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
|
||
means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
|
||
(which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
|
||
option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
|
||
filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
|
||
transfer scenarios).
|
||
|
||
- Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir
|
||
names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it
|
||
always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the
|
||
list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
|
||
directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
|
||
|
||
- When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
|
||
is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and
|
||
the new --list-only option is included in the options.
|
||
|
||
- When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
|
||
they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
|
||
build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
|
||
wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
|
||
|
||
- When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
|
||
excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to
|
||
the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in
|
||
this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that
|
||
survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the
|
||
filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other
|
||
side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list
|
||
that is sent in this scenario is often empty.
|
||
|
||
- An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet
|
||
from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the
|
||
receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive
|
||
packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit
|
||
(ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone).
|
||
|
||
- A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
|
||
option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell
|
||
script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead
|
||
of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
|
||
|
||
- Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
|
||
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.2:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
|
||
rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
|
||
transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
|
||
file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
|
||
disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
|
||
rsync under is anything above "nobody".
|
||
|
||
OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
|
||
|
||
- Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
|
||
term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
|
||
you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
|
||
would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
|
||
indicator that the verbose output is over.
|
||
|
||
- The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
|
||
"written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
|
||
|
||
- Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
|
||
with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
|
||
filename from causing an empty line to be output).
|
||
|
||
- The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
|
||
options are specified is now the same both with and without the
|
||
--backup-dir option.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
|
||
multiple source directories were specified.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
|
||
checksums.
|
||
|
||
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
|
||
over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
|
||
the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
|
||
terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
|
||
|
||
- If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
|
||
data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
|
||
file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
|
||
retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
|
||
(Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
|
||
older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
|
||
older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
|
||
error.)
|
||
|
||
- If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
|
||
is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
|
||
overwrite the original file in the backup area).
|
||
|
||
- Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
|
||
items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
|
||
allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
|
||
|
||
- Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
|
||
phase.
|
||
|
||
- When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
|
||
the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
|
||
|
||
- When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
|
||
for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
|
||
"vanished".
|
||
|
||
- The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
|
||
the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
|
||
option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
|
||
|
||
- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
|
||
refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
|
||
(the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
|
||
wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
|
||
|
||
- Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
|
||
returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
|
||
intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
|
||
batch-processing options.
|
||
|
||
- We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
|
||
implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
|
||
that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
|
||
implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
|
||
suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
|
||
help).
|
||
|
||
- When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
|
||
messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
|
||
die with a socket-write error).
|
||
|
||
- When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
|
||
hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
|
||
that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
|
||
behavior).
|
||
|
||
- Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
|
||
the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
|
||
|
||
- Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
|
||
can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
|
||
This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
|
||
AIX and HP-UX.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
|
||
(rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
|
||
|
||
- When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
|
||
exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
|
||
sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
|
||
with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
|
||
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
|
||
(temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
|
||
writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
|
||
Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
|
||
that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
|
||
the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
|
||
|
||
- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
|
||
onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
|
||
as matching a normal directory from the sender.
|
||
|
||
- Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
|
||
file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
|
||
in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
|
||
are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
|
||
Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
|
||
|
||
- Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
|
||
|
||
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
|
||
and documented all these options in the man page.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
|
||
bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
|
||
values.
|
||
|
||
- The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
|
||
SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
|
||
|
||
- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
|
||
|
||
- Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
|
||
fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
|
||
sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
|
||
systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
|
||
to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
|
||
file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
|
||
stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
|
||
same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
|
||
|
||
- If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
|
||
presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
|
||
authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
|
||
if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
|
||
error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
|
||
names.
|
||
|
||
- The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
|
||
option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
|
||
|
||
- Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
|
||
updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
|
||
finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
|
||
disallowed all group and world access.
|
||
|
||
- Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
|
||
(e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
|
||
|
||
- The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
|
||
filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
|
||
limit).
|
||
|
||
INTERNAL:
|
||
|
||
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
|
||
and made the code easier to maintain.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
|
||
lot of args.
|
||
|
||
- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
|
||
with strerror() as an arg.
|
||
|
||
- If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
|
||
IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
|
||
handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
|
||
them).
|
||
|
||
- Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
|
||
crawl if the block size got too large).
|
||
|
||
- Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
|
||
|
||
- Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
|
||
makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
|
||
being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
|
||
sides when sending the file-list).
|
||
|
||
- Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
|
||
arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
|
||
functionality into the latter.
|
||
|
||
- The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
|
||
specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
|
||
not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
|
||
including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
|
||
|
||
- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
|
||
proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
|
||
updated).
|
||
|
||
- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
|
||
target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
|
||
have $STRIP already set in the environment.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
|
||
|
||
- When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
|
||
be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
|
||
|
||
DEVELOPER RELATED:
|
||
|
||
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
|
||
new tests added.
|
||
|
||
- Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
|
||
ones were removed.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
|
||
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.1:
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative
|
||
is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were
|
||
affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list
|
||
item when requesting changes from the sender.
|
||
|
||
- Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to
|
||
better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system.
|
||
|
||
- Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages
|
||
rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix
|
||
will be sought in the future.)
|
||
|
||
- An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid
|
||
code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.)
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used
|
||
and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the
|
||
broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an
|
||
NFS build-dir.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define
|
||
AI_NUMERICHOST.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that
|
||
don't support __attribute__.
|
||
|
||
DEVELOPER RELATED:
|
||
|
||
- Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1.
|
||
|
||
- Two new diffs were added to the patches dir.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004)
|
||
Protocol: 28 (changed)
|
||
Changes since 2.6.0:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when
|
||
chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync
|
||
daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the
|
||
user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody".
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
- Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket,
|
||
and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details).
|
||
|
||
- The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
|
||
"USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
|
||
(Bardur Arantsson)
|
||
|
||
- The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer
|
||
we are, including both a count of files transferred and a
|
||
percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also
|
||
shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time
|
||
values.
|
||
|
||
- Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis-
|
||
understood features more clearly.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
- When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or
|
||
--copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the
|
||
referent file is on a different filesystem.
|
||
|
||
- The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when
|
||
(1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was
|
||
specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on
|
||
the destination and -g was specified.
|
||
|
||
- 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).
|
||
|
||
- We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of
|
||
each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer
|
||
with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file
|
||
than the current basis file when no new data has been transferred
|
||
over the wire for that file.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines.
|
||
(Jay Fenlason)
|
||
|
||
- When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
|
||
per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
|
||
directory (not all following directories too). The items are also
|
||
now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing.
|
||
|
||
- When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part
|
||
can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to
|
||
find the HOST, not the first).
|
||
|
||
- Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users:
|
||
(1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name
|
||
for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in
|
||
that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer
|
||
attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission
|
||
to set.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
|
||
|
||
- Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount-
|
||
point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that
|
||
it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount-
|
||
point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the
|
||
original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be
|
||
ignoring.
|
||
|
||
- Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
|
||
when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
|
||
that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them).
|
||
|
||
- Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with
|
||
or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as
|
||
--link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative
|
||
one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless.
|
||
Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the
|
||
module's base dir when chroot is not enabled.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync
|
||
versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without
|
||
telling us that --backup-dir was specified.
|
||
|
||
- The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process
|
||
now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems
|
||
that have a length field in their socket structs.
|
||
|
||
- 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
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
- Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent.
|
||
|
||
- Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
|
||
(J.W. Schultz)
|
||
|
||
- Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up
|
||
the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
- The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
|
||
group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
|
||
prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
|
||
hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
|
||
earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
|
||
receiving side.
|
||
|
||
- Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released
|
||
15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25
|
||
(2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz,
|
||
severally)
|
||
|
||
- More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
|
||
|
||
- More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
|
||
|
||
- Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
|
||
|
||
- Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
|
||
|
||
- The generator is now better about not modifying the file list
|
||
during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory
|
||
bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory).
|
||
Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared,
|
||
resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving
|
||
side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions
|
||
are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way
|
||
for the entire transfer.
|
||
|
||
- Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation
|
||
pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits
|
||
freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
|
||
|
||
- The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
|
||
(which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and
|
||
the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the
|
||
"redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from
|
||
the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator
|
||
over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and
|
||
verbose --stats output).
|
||
|
||
- Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a
|
||
little more optimized.
|
||
|
||
- The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as
|
||
separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28).
|
||
Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit
|
||
number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more
|
||
compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the
|
||
connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the
|
||
binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in
|
||
fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is
|
||
now available.
|
||
|
||
- Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made
|
||
things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient.
|
||
|
||
- The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now
|
||
handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the
|
||
wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the
|
||
batch code is still considered to be experimental.)
|
||
|
||
BUILD CHANGES:
|
||
|
||
- The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to
|
||
override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
|
||
|
||
- Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
|
||
sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
|
||
|
||
DEVELOPER RELATED:
|
||
|
||
- Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
|
||
|
||
- Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones
|
||
that got applied, and rebuilt the rest.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.6:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
|
||
Russell, Andrea Barisani)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.5:
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
* The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
|
||
Zimmerman)
|
||
|
||
* 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)
|
||
|
||
* The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
|
||
destination field.
|
||
|
||
* If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
|
||
rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
|
||
|
||
* New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
|
||
unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
|
||
(J.W. Schultz)
|
||
|
||
* Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
|
||
rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
|
||
|
||
* Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
|
||
Middleton)
|
||
|
||
* Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
|
||
and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
|
||
|
||
* Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
|
||
terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
|
||
|
||
* Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
|
||
(Dave Dykstra)
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
|
||
L. Allen, Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
|
||
in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
|
||
timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
|
||
|
||
* Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
|
||
|
||
* Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
|
||
contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
|
||
list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
|
||
dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
|
||
processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
|
||
an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
|
||
broken. (Dave Dykstra)
|
||
|
||
* Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
|
||
(Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
|
||
when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
|
||
|
||
* Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
|
||
|
||
INTERNAL:
|
||
|
||
* Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
|
||
Pool, Nelson Beebe)
|
||
|
||
* Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
* More test cases. (Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
|
||
|
||
* Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
|
||
(Jos Backus)
|
||
|
||
* Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
|
||
means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.4:
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
|
||
otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
|
||
|
||
* Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
|
||
accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
|
||
(Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
|
||
|
||
* If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
|
||
a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
|
||
similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
|
||
(Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
|
||
slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
|
||
current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
|
||
Pool.)
|
||
|
||
* Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
|
||
for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
|
||
|
||
* Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
|
||
trailing slashes.
|
||
<http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
|
||
(Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
* Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.3:
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
|
||
Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
|
||
(Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
|
||
not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
|
||
|
||
* Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.2:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
|
||
process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
|
||
#132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
|
||
CAN-2002-0059)
|
||
|
||
* Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
|
||
unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
|
||
and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
|
||
|
||
* Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
|
||
"unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
|
||
|
||
* Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
|
||
on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
|
||
|
||
* Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
|
||
unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
|
||
|
||
* Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
|
||
slash.
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
|
||
rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
|
||
against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
|
||
|
||
* Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
|
||
than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
|
||
what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
|
||
to parse the output.
|
||
|
||
* Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
|
||
|
||
* Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
|
||
and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
|
||
|
||
* If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
|
||
print an error message. (Colin Walters)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
|
||
Protocol: 26 (changed)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.1:
|
||
|
||
SECURITY FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
|
||
<krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
|
||
careful about reading integers from the network.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix possible string mangling in log files.
|
||
|
||
* Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
|
||
|
||
* Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
|
||
64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
|
||
|
||
* Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
|
||
|
||
* Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
|
||
connection.
|
||
|
||
* --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
|
||
support mallinfo().
|
||
|
||
* "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
|
||
visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
|
||
rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
|
||
file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
|
||
|
||
* Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
|
||
but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
|
||
|
||
* New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
|
||
Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
|
||
Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
|
||
Changes since 2.5.0:
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
|
||
Mackerras)
|
||
|
||
* Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
|
||
(YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
|
||
Hagino)
|
||
|
||
* Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
|
||
|
||
* rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
|
||
|
||
* Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
|
||
|
||
* rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
|
||
Welbourne)
|
||
|
||
* Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS:
|
||
|
||
* --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
|
||
multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
|
||
Faith)
|
||
|
||
* --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
|
||
useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
|
||
debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
|
||
|
||
* Clearer error messages for some conditions.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
|
||
Protocol: 25 (changed)
|
||
Changes since 2.4.6:
|
||
|
||
ANNOUNCEMENTS
|
||
|
||
* Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
|
||
|
||
NEW FEATURES
|
||
|
||
* Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
|
||
|
||
* Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
|
||
|
||
* Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
|
||
sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
|
||
Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
|
||
|
||
* IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
|
||
including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
|
||
includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
|
||
Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
|
||
portability project, and OpenBSD.
|
||
|
||
ENHANCEMENTS
|
||
|
||
* Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
|
||
included or excluded and why.
|
||
|
||
* Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
|
||
details.
|
||
|
||
* Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
|
||
|
||
* When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
|
||
file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
|
||
open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
|
||
file to get cleaned out by another process.
|
||
|
||
* Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
|
||
options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
|
||
consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
|
||
installed on the platform.
|
||
|
||
* More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
|
||
files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
|
||
|
||
* MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
|
||
|
||
* Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
|
||
explain that we do it in a secure way.
|
||
|
||
* --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
|
||
local machine.
|
||
|
||
BUG FIXES:
|
||
|
||
* Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
|
||
|
||
* Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
|
||
|
||
* Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
|
||
|
||
* Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
|
||
to transfer fail to transfer.
|
||
|
||
* For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
|
||
overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
|
||
ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
|
||
|
||
PLATFORMS:
|
||
|
||
* Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
|
||
|
||
* autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
|
||
scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
|
||
|
||
* Platforms thought to work in this release:
|
||
|
||
Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
|
||
Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
|
||
Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
|
||
FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
|
||
FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
|
||
FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
|
||
HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
|
||
HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
|
||
IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
|
||
IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
|
||
Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
|
||
NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
|
||
NetBSD Current i386 cc
|
||
OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
|
||
OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
|
||
OpenBSD Current i386 cc
|
||
RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
|
||
RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
|
||
RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
|
||
RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
|
||
Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
|
||
Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
|
||
Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
|
||
Solaris 8 i386 gcc
|
||
SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
|
||
SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
|
||
i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
|
||
i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
|
||
powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
|
||
i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
|
||
i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
|
||
|
||
TESTING:
|
||
|
||
* The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
|
||
test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
|
||
build farm.
|
||
|
||
Partial Protocol History
|
||
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
|
||
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
|
||
30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28
|
||
26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28
|
||
01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40)
|
||
04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26
|
||
26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26
|
||
02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26
|
||
13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26
|
||
11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26
|
||
26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26
|
||
03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25
|
||
30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25
|
||
06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24
|
||
19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24
|
||
29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24
|
||
09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24
|
||
30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24
|
||
30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24
|
||
29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23
|
||
25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22
|
||
08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21
|
||
06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20
|
||
15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20
|
||
25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19
|
||
03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19
|
||
09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19
|
||
20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19
|
||
17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19
|
||
18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19
|
||
01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19
|
||
27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19
|
||
26 May 1998 2.0.12 18
|
||
22 May 1998 2.0.11 18
|
||
18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18
|
||
17 May 1998 2.0.8 17
|
||
15 May 1998 2.0.1 17
|
||
14 May 1998 2.0.0 17
|
||
17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17
|
||
13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17
|
||
05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17
|
||
26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17
|
||
26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30)
|
||
13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20)
|
||
|
||
* DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.
|