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1.1 ! misho 1: NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (26 Mar 2011)
! 2: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 3: Changes since 3.0.7:
! 4:
! 5: BUG FIXES:
! 6:
! 7: - Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
! 8: exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
! 9: --backup-dir that is extra extra large.
! 10:
! 11: - Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without
! 12: preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during
! 13: the transfer (CVE-2011-1097). This fixes some assert errors in the
! 14: hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums (via -c) that
! 15: should have matched.
! 16:
! 17: - Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
! 18: and the transfer is using ACLs or xattrs.
! 19:
! 20: - Fixed a hang if a really large file is being processed by an rsync that
! 21: can't handle 64-bit numbers. Rsync will now complain about the file
! 22: being too big and skip it.
! 23:
! 24: - For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
! 25: xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The un-copied
! 26: files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
! 27: data that is not going to be used.) This ensures that if the user uses
! 28: --no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
! 29: extended information from special files that are in the file list (but
! 30: not in the transfer).
! 31:
! 32: - Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash. This
! 33: avoids a potential error where a filename could be interpreted as a
! 34: (usually invalid) option.
! 35:
! 36: - Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
! 37: --skip-compress.
! 38:
! 39: - If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
! 40: will now disallow access to that module.
! 41:
! 42: - If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
! 43: reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
! 44:
! 45: - If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
! 46: lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
! 47: system where the newer function is not around. This helps to make the
! 48: rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.
! 49:
! 50: - Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
! 51: compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
! 52: protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
! 53: it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.
! 54:
! 55: - Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
! 56: hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
! 57: code fails.
! 58:
! 59: - The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
! 60: position. The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
! 61: an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.
! 62:
! 63: - Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.
! 64:
! 65: - Fixed a bug that prevented --numeric-ids from disabling the translation
! 66: of user/group IDs for ACLs.
! 67:
! 68: - Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
! 69: option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
! 70: changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
! 71: trying to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.
! 72:
! 73: - Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
! 74: file.
! 75:
! 76: - The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
! 77: attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.
! 78:
! 79: - Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
! 80: Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
! 81: NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.
! 82:
! 83: - Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.
! 84:
! 85: - Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.
! 86:
! 87: - Avoid re-setting xattrs on a hard-linked file w/the same xattrs.
! 88:
! 89: - Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
! 90: user writable.
! 91:
! 92: - Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
! 93: into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).
! 94:
! 95: - If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
! 96: the middle of adjacent high-bit characters. This prevents a potential
! 97: filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an
! 98: invalid multi-byte sequence.
! 99:
! 100: - If a muli-protocol socket connection fails (i.e., when contacting a
! 101: daemon), we now report all the failures, not just the last one. This
! 102: avoids losing a relevant error (e.g. an IPv4 connection-refused error)
! 103: that happened before the final error (e.g. an IPv6 protocol-not-supported
! 104: error).
! 105:
! 106: - Generate a transfer error if we try to call chown with a -1 for a uid or
! 107: a gid (which is not settable).
! 108:
! 109: - Fixed the working of --force when used with --one-file-system.
! 110:
! 111: - Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
! 112: reject an attempt to supply one (can configure --with-included-popt if
! 113: your system's popt library doesn't yet have this fix).
! 114:
! 115: - A couple minor option tweaks to the support/rrsync script, and also some
! 116: regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.
! 117:
! 118: - Fixed some issues in the support/mnt-excl script.
! 119:
! 120: - Various manpage improvements.
! 121:
! 122: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 123:
! 124: - Added ".hg/" to the default cvs excludes (see -C & --cvs-exclude).
! 125:
! 126: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 127:
! 128: - Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
! 129:
! 130: - A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
! 131:
! 132: - Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
! 133:
! 134: - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.
! 135:
! 136: - Fixed configure's checking for iconv routines for newer OS X versions.
! 137:
! 138: - Fixed the testsuite/xattrs.test script on OS X.
! 139:
! 140:
! 141: NEWS for rsync 3.0.7 (31 Dec 2009)
! 142: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 143: Changes since 3.0.6:
! 144:
! 145: BUG FIXES:
! 146:
! 147: - Fixed a bogus free when using --xattrs with --backup.
! 148:
! 149: - Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file
! 150: that hasn't really been created.
! 151:
! 152: - Fixed a problem with --compress (-z) where the receiving side could
! 153: return the error "inflate (token) returned -5".
! 154:
! 155: - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it
! 156: noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory (both
! 157: sides of the transfer must be at least 3.0.7).
! 158:
! 159: - Improved --skip-compress's error handling of bad character-sets and got
! 160: rid of a lingering debug fprintf().
! 161:
! 162: - Fixed the daemon's conveyance of io_error value from the sender.
! 163:
! 164: - An rsync daemon use seteuid() (when available) if it used setuid().
! 165:
! 166: - Get the permissions right on a --fake-super transferred directory that
! 167: needs more owner permissions to emulate root behavior.
! 168:
! 169: - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
! 170: its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
! 171:
! 172: - Improved the "--delete does not work without -r or -d" message.
! 173:
! 174: - Improved rsync's handling of --timeout to avoid a weird timeout case
! 175: where the sender could timeout even though it has recently written data
! 176: to the socket (but hasn't read data recently, due to the writing).
! 177:
! 178: - Some misc manpage improvements.
! 179:
! 180: - Fixed the chmod-temp-dir testsuite on a system without /var/tmp.
! 181:
! 182: - Make sure that a timeout specified in the daemon's config is used as a
! 183: maximum timeout value when the user also specifies a timeout.
! 184:
! 185: - Improved the error-exit reporting when rsync gets an error trying to
! 186: cleanup after an error: the initial error is reported.
! 187:
! 188: - Improved configure's detection of IPv6 for solaris and cygwin.
! 189:
! 190: - The AIX sysacls routines will now return ENOSYS if ENOTSUP is missing.
! 191:
! 192: - Made our (only used if missing) getaddrinfo() routine use inet_pton()
! 193: (which we also provide) instead of inet_aton().
! 194:
! 195: - The exit-related debug messages now mention the program's role so it is
! 196: clear who output what message.
! 197:
! 198: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 199:
! 200: - Got rid of type-punned compiler warnings output by newer gcc versions.
! 201:
! 202: - The Makefile now ensures that proto.h will be rebuilt if config.h changes.
! 203:
! 204: - The testsuite no longer uses "id -u", so it works better on solaris.
! 205:
! 206:
! 207: NEWS for rsync 3.0.6 (8 May 2009)
! 208: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 209: Changes since 3.0.5:
! 210:
! 211: BUG FIXES:
! 212:
! 213: - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was
! 214: created from an incremental-recursion transfer.
! 215:
! 216: - Fixed the daemon's socket code to handle the simultaneous arrival of
! 217: multiple connections.
! 218:
! 219: - Fix --safe-links/--copy-unsafe-links to properly handle symlinks that
! 220: have consecutive slashes in the value.
! 221:
! 222: - Fixed the parsing of an [IPv6_LITERAL_ADDR] when a USER@ is prefixed.
! 223:
! 224: - The sender now skips a (bogus) symlink that has a 0-length value, which
! 225: avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
! 226:
! 227: - Fixed a case where the sender could die with a tag-0 error if there was
! 228: an I/O during the sending of the file list.
! 229:
! 230: - Fixed the rrsync script to avoid a server-side problem when -e is at the
! 231: start of the short options.
! 232:
! 233: - Fixed a problem where a vanished directory could turn into an exit code
! 234: 23 instead of the proper exit code 24.
! 235:
! 236: - Fixed the --iconv conversion of symlinks when doing a local copy.
! 237:
! 238: - Fixed a problem where --one-file-system was not stopping deletions on the
! 239: receiving side when a mount-point directory did not match a directory in
! 240: the transfer.
! 241:
! 242: - Fixed the dropping of an ACL mask when no named ACL values were present.
! 243:
! 244: - Fixed an ACL/xattr corruption issue where the --backup option could cause
! 245: rsync to associate the wrong ACL/xattr information with received files.
! 246:
! 247: - Fixed the use of --xattrs with --only-write-batch.
! 248:
! 249: - Fixed the use of --dry-run with --read-batch.
! 250:
! 251: - Fixed configure's erroneous use of target.
! 252:
! 253: - Fixed configure's --disable-debug option.
! 254:
! 255: - Fixed a run-time issue for systems that can't find iconv_open() by adding
! 256: the --disable-iconv-open configure option.
! 257:
! 258: - Complain and die if the user tries to combine --remove-source-files (or
! 259: the deprecated --remove-sent-files) with --read-batch.
! 260:
! 261: - Fixed an failure transferring special files from Solaris to Linux.
! 262:
! 263:
! 264: NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008)
! 265: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 266: Changes since 3.0.4:
! 267:
! 268: BUG FIXES:
! 269:
! 270: - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a
! 271: crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero.
! 272: Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking.
! 273:
! 274: - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short
! 275: options specified.
! 276:
! 277: - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental
! 278: recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle
! 279: "redo" files properly (and without hanging).
! 280:
! 281: - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot.
! 282:
! 283: - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or
! 284: destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem
! 285: when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
! 286:
! 287: - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from
! 288: file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory.
! 289:
! 290: - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when
! 291: incremental recursion is active.
! 292:
! 293: - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files.
! 294:
! 295: - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell.
! 296:
! 297: - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command.
! 298:
! 299: - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the
! 300: confusing "non-empty" qualifier.
! 301:
! 302: - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of
! 303: getnameinfo().
! 304:
! 305: - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of
! 306: consecutive sparse data.
! 307:
! 308: - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a
! 309: client sender (which includes local copying).
! 310:
! 311: - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready
! 312: to remove a directory that was now gone.
! 313:
! 314: - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings.
! 315:
! 316: - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial-
! 317: transfer warning.
! 318:
! 319: - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only).
! 320:
! 321: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 322:
! 323: - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic
! 324: update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a
! 325: particular symlink idiom.
! 326:
! 327:
! 328: NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (6 Sep 2008)
! 329: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 330: Changes since 3.0.3:
! 331:
! 332: BUG FIXES:
! 333:
! 334: - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
! 335: allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
! 336:
! 337: - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
! 338: of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
! 339:
! 340: - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
! 341: particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
! 342: be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
! 343: the --remove-source-files was also specified.
! 344:
! 345: - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
! 346: destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
! 347: a non-root copy can't affect.
! 348:
! 349: - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
! 350: incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
! 351:
! 352: - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
! 353: of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
! 354: of the transfer).
! 355:
! 356: - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
! 357: this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
! 358: silently (the user now gets a warning about deletions being disabled
! 359: due to IO error as long as --ignore-errors was not specified).
! 360:
! 361: - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
! 362: the error message sent back to the client no longer mangles the name
! 363: with the wrong charset conversion.
! 364:
! 365: - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
! 366: the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
! 367:
! 368: - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
! 369:
! 370: - Made human_num() and human_dnum() able to output a negative number
! 371: (rather than outputting a cryptic string of punctuation).
! 372:
! 373: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 374:
! 375: - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
! 376: is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
! 377: user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
! 378: server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
! 379:
! 380: - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
! 381:
! 382: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 383:
! 384: - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
! 385: or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
! 386:
! 387: - Changed some commands in the testsuite's xattrs.test that called "rsync"
! 388: instead of "$RSYNC".
! 389:
! 390: - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release and
! 391: to do even more consistency checks on the files.
! 392:
! 393:
! 394: NEWS for rsync 3.0.3 (29 Jun 2008)
! 395: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 396: Changes since 3.0.2:
! 397:
! 398: BUG FIXES:
! 399:
! 400: - Fixed a wildcard matching problem in the daemon when a module has
! 401: "use chroot" enabled.
! 402:
! 403: - Fixed a crash bug in the hard-link code.
! 404:
! 405: - Fixed the sending of xattr directory information when the code finds a
! 406: --link-dest or --copy-dest directory with unchanged xattrs -- the
! 407: destination directory now gets these unchanged xattrs properly applied.
! 408:
! 409: - Fixed an xattr-sending glitch that could cause an "Internal abbrev"
! 410: error.
! 411:
! 412: - Fixed the combination of --xattrs and --backup.
! 413:
! 414: - The generator no longer allows a '.' dir to be excluded by a daemon-
! 415: exclude rule.
! 416:
! 417: - Fixed deletion handling when copying a single, empty directory (with no
! 418: files) to a differently named, non-existent directory.
! 419:
! 420: - Fixed the conversion of spaces into dashes in the %M log escape.
! 421:
! 422: - Fixed several places in the code that were not returning the right
! 423: errno when a function failed.
! 424:
! 425: - Fixed the backing up of a device or special file into a backup dir.
! 426:
! 427: - Moved the setting of the socket options prior to the connect().
! 428:
! 429: - If rsync exits in the middle of a --progress output, it now outputs a
! 430: newline to help prevent the progress line from being overwritten.
! 431:
! 432: - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
! 433: a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
! 434:
! 435: - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older
! 436: rsync (protocols < 30): we now use a compatible block size limit.
! 437:
! 438: - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
! 439: (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
! 440: checksum struct over the wire.
! 441:
! 442: - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded
! 443: arg's implied dirs to the transfer. This fix also made the exclude
! 444: check happen in the better place in the sending code.
! 445:
! 446: - Use the overflow_exit() function for overflows, not out_of_memory().
! 447:
! 448: - Improved the code to better handle a system that has only 32-bit file
! 449: offsets.
! 450:
! 451: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 452:
! 453: - The rsyncd.conf manpage now consistently refers to the parameters in
! 454: the daemon config file as "parameters".
! 455:
! 456: - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
! 457:
! 458: EXTRAS:
! 459:
! 460: - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows
! 461: an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that
! 462: sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol.
! 463:
! 464: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 465:
! 466: - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
! 467: compatibility improvements.
! 468:
! 469: - Improved the daemon tests, including checking module comments, the
! 470: listing of files, and the ensuring that daemon excludes can't affect
! 471: a dot-dir arg.
! 472:
! 473: - Improved some build rules for those that build in a separate directory
! 474: from the source, including better install rules for the man pages, and
! 475: the fixing of a proto.h-tstamp rule that could make the binaries get
! 476: rebuild without cause.
! 477:
! 478: - Improved the testsuite to work around a problem with some utilities
! 479: (e.g. cp -p & touch -r) rounding sub-second timestamps.
! 480:
! 481: - Ensure that the early patches don't cause any generated-file hunks to
! 482: bleed-over into patches that follow.
! 483:
! 484:
! 485: NEWS for rsync 3.0.2 (8 Apr 2008)
! 486: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 487: Changes since 3.0.1:
! 488:
! 489: BUG FIXES:
! 490:
! 491: - Fixed a potential buffer overflow in the xattr code.
! 492:
! 493: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 494:
! 495: - None.
! 496:
! 497: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 498:
! 499: - The RPM spec file was improved to install more useful files.
! 500:
! 501: - A few developer-oriented scripts were moved from the support dir
! 502: to the packaging dir.
! 503:
! 504:
! 505: NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (3 Apr 2008)
! 506: Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
! 507: Changes since 3.0.0:
! 508:
! 509: NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
! 510:
! 511: - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
! 512: itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
! 513: and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
! 514: between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
! 515: revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a
! 516: new device number, etc.).
! 517:
! 518: BUG FIXES:
! 519:
! 520: - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
! 521: run without specifying a --config=FILE option.
! 522:
! 523: - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.
! 524:
! 525: - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
! 526: not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.
! 527:
! 528: - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.
! 529:
! 530: - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.
! 531:
! 532: - Fixed a bug with --iconv's handling of files that cannot be converted:
! 533: a failed name can no longer cause a transfer failure.
! 534:
! 535: - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
! 536: CPPFLAGS to be used. Also improved the error reporting if the building
! 537: of rounding.h fails.
! 538:
! 539: - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.
! 540:
! 541: - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
! 542: that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
! 543: the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver). The reverse
! 544: protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
! 545: file) was already working.
! 546:
! 547: - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
! 548: can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing,
! 549: --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set.
! 550:
! 551: - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right
! 552: modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.
! 553:
! 554: - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the
! 555: exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as
! 556: if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the
! 557: user's args), and avoids sending the user the filter-action messages
! 558: for these non-user-initiated rules.
! 559:
! 560: - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
! 561: handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.
! 562:
! 563: - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.
! 564:
! 565: - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.
! 566:
! 567: - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.
! 568:
! 569: - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
! 570: longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
! 571: date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
! 572: ownership, xattrs, etc.).
! 573:
! 574: - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
! 575: because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled,
! 576: it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.
! 577:
! 578: - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could
! 579: make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path.
! 580:
! 581: - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
! 582: wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).
! 583:
! 584: - Fixed the inclusion of per-dir merge files from implied dirs.
! 585:
! 586: - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
! 587: rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).
! 588:
! 589: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 590:
! 591: - Added the --old-dirs (--old-d) option to make it easier for a user to
! 592: ask for file-listings with older rsync versions (this is easier than
! 593: having to type "-r --exclude='/*/*'" manually).
! 594:
! 595: - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
! 596: listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
! 597: --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.
! 598:
! 599: - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.
! 600:
! 601: - Improved the documentation of the --append option.
! 602:
! 603: - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
! 604: parameters.
! 605:
! 606: INTERNAL:
! 607:
! 608: - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
! 609: sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).
! 610:
! 611: - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
! 612: normal/64-bit stat() function gets called. (Was in an area that should
! 613: not have caused problems, though.)
! 614:
! 615: - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
! 616: "glob" and "glob.h". This lets us do the globbing with less memory
! 617: churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
! 618: args.
! 619:
! 620: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 621:
! 622: - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
! 623: unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
! 624: the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.
! 625:
! 626: - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
! 627: included popt code should be used or not.
! 628:
! 629: - Fixed two testsuite glitches: avoid a failure if someone's "cd" command
! 630: outputs the current directory when cd-ing to a relative path, and made
! 631: the itemized test query how rsync was built to determine if it should
! 632: expect hard-linked symlinks or not.
! 633:
! 634: - Updated the testsuite to verify that various bug fixes remain fixed.
! 635:
! 636: - The RPM spec file was updated to have: (1) comments for how to use the
! 637: rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.
! 638:
! 639: - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
! 640: structure.
! 641:
! 642:
! 643: NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (1 Mar 2008)
! 644: Protocol: 30 (changed)
! 645: Changes since 2.6.9:
! 646:
! 647: NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:
! 648:
! 649: - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed to
! 650: send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a symlink).
! 651: This avoids unexpected behavior and should not adversely affect most
! 652: people. If you're one of those rare individuals who relied upon having
! 653: an implied dir be duplicated as a symlink, you should specify the
! 654: transfer of the symlink and the transfer of the referent directory as
! 655: separate args. (See also --keep-dirlinks and --no-implied-dirs.)
! 656: Also, exclude rules no longer have a partial effect on implied dirs.
! 657:
! 658: - Requesting a remote file-listing without specifying -r (--recursive) now
! 659: sends the -d (--dirs) option to the remote rsync rather than sending -r
! 660: along with an extra exclude of /*/*. If the remote rsync does not
! 661: understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to
! 662: either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify -r --exclude='/*/*' manually.
! 663:
! 664: - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output
! 665: with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made.
! 666: Similarly, --only-write-batch outputs "(BATCH ONLY)".
! 667:
! 668: - A writable rsync daemon with "use chroot" disabled now defaults to a
! 669: symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also
! 670: allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved. This also has
! 671: the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's
! 672: hierarchy. See the daemon's "munge symlinks" parameter for details.
! 673:
! 674: - Starting up an extra copy of an rsync daemon will not clobber the pidfile
! 675: for the running daemon -- if the pidfile exists, the new daemon will exit
! 676: with an error. This means that your wrapper script that starts the rsync
! 677: daemon should be made to handle lock-breaking (if you want any automatic
! 678: breaking of locks to be done).
! 679:
! 680: BUG FIXES:
! 681:
! 682: - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon
! 683: config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these
! 684: options: --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir,
! 685: --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from.
! 686:
! 687: - A daemon can now be told to disable all user- and group-name translation
! 688: on a per-module basis. This avoids a potential problem with a writable
! 689: daemon module that has "use chroot" enabled -- if precautions weren't
! 690: taken, a user could try to add a missing library and get rsync to use
! 691: it. This makes rsync safer by default, and more configurable when id-
! 692: translation is not desired. See the daemon's "numeric ids" parameter
! 693: for full details.
! 694:
! 695: - A chroot daemon can now indicate which part of its path should affect the
! 696: chroot call, and which part should become an inside-chroot path for the
! 697: module. This allows you to have outside-the-transfer paths (such as for
! 698: libraries) even when you enable chroot protection. The idiom used in the
! 699: rsyncd.conf file is: path = /chroot/dirs/./dirs/inside
! 700:
! 701: - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the
! 702: rename of the temporary file to the destination file failed AND the
! 703: --remove-source-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option
! 704: was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated
! 705: source file.
! 706:
! 707: - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
! 708: it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
! 709:
! 710: - Made the output of all file types consistent when using a --*-dest
! 711: option. Prior versions would output too many creation events for
! 712: matching items.
! 713:
! 714: - The code that waits for a child pid now handles being interrupted by a
! 715: signal. This fixes a problem with the pre-xfer exec function not being
! 716: able to get the exit status from the script.
! 717:
! 718: - A negated filter rule (i.e. with a '!' modifier) no longer loses the
! 719: negation when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
! 720:
! 721: - Fixed a problem with the --out-format (aka --log-format) option %f: it
! 722: no longer outputs superfluous directory info for a non-daemon rsync.
! 723:
! 724: - Fixed a problem with -vv (double --verbose) and --stats when "pushing"
! 725: files (which includes local copies). Version 2.6.9 would complete the
! 726: copy, but exit with an error when the receiver output its memory stats.
! 727:
! 728: - If --password-file is used on a non-daemon transfer, rsync now complains
! 729: and exits. This should help users figure out that they can't use this
! 730: option to control a remote shell's password prompt.
! 731:
! 732: - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
! 733: directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
! 734:
! 735: - The itemized output of a newly-created destination directory is now
! 736: output as a creation event, not a change event.
! 737:
! 738: - Improved --hard-link so that more corner cases are handled correctly
! 739: when combined with options such as --link-dest and/or --ignore-existing.
! 740:
! 741: - The --append option no longer updates a file that has the same size.
! 742:
! 743: - Fixed a bug when combining --backup and --backup-dir with --inplace:
! 744: any missing backup directories are now created.
! 745:
! 746: - Fixed a bug when using --backup and --inplace with --whole-file or
! 747: --read-batch: backup files are actually created now.
! 748:
! 749: - The daemon pidfile is checked and created sooner in the startup sequence.
! 750:
! 751: - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code
! 752: now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly).
! 753:
! 754: - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we
! 755: are writing to it. This avoids problems with some network filesystems
! 756: when transfering read-only files.
! 757:
! 758: - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at
! 759: the end of the run about a partial transfer.
! 760:
! 761: - The --read-batch option for protocol 30 now ensures that several more
! 762: options are set correctly for the current batch file: --iconv, --acls,
! 763: --xattrs, --inplace, --append, and --append-verify.
! 764:
! 765: - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now works properly (older
! 766: versions would update some files while writing the batch).
! 767:
! 768: - Avoid outputting a "file has vanished" message when the file is a broken
! 769: symlink and --copy-unsafe-links or --copy-dirlinks is used (the code
! 770: already handled this for --copy-links).
! 771:
! 772: - Fixed the combination of --only-write-batch and --dry-run.
! 773:
! 774: - Fixed rsync's ability to remove files that are not writable by the file's
! 775: owner when rsync is running as the same user.
! 776:
! 777: - When transferring large files, the sender's hashtable of checksums is
! 778: kept at a more reasonable state of fullness (no more than 80% full) so
! 779: that the scanning of the hashtable will not bog down as the number of
! 780: blocks increases.
! 781:
! 782: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 783:
! 784: - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
! 785: to another 3.x version. This starts the transfer going more quickly
! 786: (before all the files have been found), and requires much less memory.
! 787: See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
! 788:
! 789: - Lowered memory use in the non-incremental-recursion algorithm for typical
! 790: option values (usually saving from 21-29 bytes per file).
! 791:
! 792: - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking to a
! 793: 3.x rsync. This is a faster scan than using --delete-before (which is
! 794: the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with
! 795: the new incremental recursion mode.
! 796:
! 797: - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
! 798: having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
! 799: shell. Additional remote args must specify the same host or an empty one
! 800: (e.g. empty: :file1 or ::module/file2). For example, this means that
! 801: local use of brace expansion now works: rsync -av host:dir/{f1,f2} .
! 802:
! 803: - Added the --protect-args (-s) option, that tells rsync to send most of
! 804: the command-line args at the start of the transfer rather than as args
! 805: to the remote-shell command. This protects them from space-splitting,
! 806: and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[).
! 807:
! 808: - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete
! 809: files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass.
! 810:
! 811: - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is
! 812: an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
! 813: supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old,
! 814: ACL-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
! 815: dir.
! 816:
! 817: - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserve extended attributes. This is
! 818: an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
! 819: supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you
! 820: need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of
! 821: rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.
! 822:
! 823: - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve
! 824: all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom.
! 825: It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server.
! 826: There is also an analogous "fake super" parameter for an rsync daemon.
! 827:
! 828: - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
! 829: one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to
! 830: make this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open().
! 831: If compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then
! 832: rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by
! 833: default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default
! 834: value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example,
! 835: "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an
! 836: explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
! 837:
! 838: - A new daemon config parameter, "charset", lets you control the character-
! 839: set that is used during an --iconv transfer to/from a daemon module. You
! 840: can also set your daemon to refuse "no-iconv" if you want to force the
! 841: client to use an --iconv transfer (requiring an rsync 3.x client).
! 842:
! 843: - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of
! 844: file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress (-z).
! 845:
! 846: - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include:
! 847: *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg
! 848: The name-matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly.
! 849:
! 850: - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
! 851: deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older
! 852: versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
! 853:
! 854: - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
! 855: about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure
! 856: what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1,
! 857: as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though
! 858: older versions don't warn).
! 859:
! 860: - The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
! 861: receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a
! 862: hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently convey to the
! 863: receiver what files are linked together. This reduces the amount of data
! 864: sent over the socket by a considerable margin (rather than adding more
! 865: data), and limits the in-memory storage of the device+inode information
! 866: to just the sending side for the new protocol 30, or to the receiving
! 867: side when speaking an older protocol (note that older rsync versions kept
! 868: the device+inode information on both sides).
! 869:
! 870: - The filter rules now support a perishable ("p") modifier that marks rules
! 871: that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted. e.g.
! 872: -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
! 873:
! 874: - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g.
! 875: --link-dest). This lets the user know when they specified a directory
! 876: that does not exist.
! 877:
! 878: - If we get an ENOSYS error setting the time on a symlink, we don't
! 879: complain about it anymore (for those systems that even support the
! 880: setting of the modify-time on a symlink).
! 881:
! 882: - Protocol 30 now uses MD5 checksums instead of MD4.
! 883:
! 884: - Changed the --append option to not checksum the existing data in the
! 885: destination file, which speeds up file appending.
! 886:
! 887: - Added the --append-verify option, which works like the older --append
! 888: option (verifying the existing data in the destination file). For
! 889: compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
! 890: talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
! 891:
! 892: - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a
! 893: connection timeout for rsync daemon access.
! 894:
! 895: - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
! 896: that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
! 897:
! 898: - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
! 899:
! 900: - Rsync now supports a lot more --no-OPTION override options.
! 901:
! 902: INTERNAL:
! 903:
! 904: - The file-list sorting algorithm now uses a sort that keeps any same-
! 905: named items in the same order as they were specified. This allows
! 906: rsync to always ensure that the first of the duplicates is the one
! 907: that will be included in the copy. The new sort is also faster
! 908: than the glibc version of qsort() and mergesort().
! 909:
! 910: - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
! 911:
! 912: - Made the file-deletion code use a little less stack when recursing
! 913: through a directory hierarchy of extraneous files.
! 914:
! 915: - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
! 916:
! 917: - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
! 918: easier without forcing variables via casts.
! 919:
! 920: - Changed strcat/strcpy/sprintf function calls to use safer versions.
! 921:
! 922: - Upgraded the included popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of
! 923: string-handling functions.
! 924:
! 925: - Added missing prototypes for compatibility functions from the lib dir.
! 926:
! 927: - Configure determines if iconv() has a const arg, allowing us to avoid a
! 928: compiler warning.
! 929:
! 930: - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
! 931:
! 932: - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
! 933: omitted the --server option.
! 934:
! 935: - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than
! 936: the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN. These new
! 937: categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing
! 938: an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be
! 939: transferred.
! 940:
! 941: - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
! 942:
! 943: - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of incrementally freeing
! 944: older sections of a pool's memory.
! 945:
! 946: - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with
! 947: some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a
! 948: better license than the old code.
! 949:
! 950: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 951:
! 952: - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
! 953:
! 954: - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS
! 955: (though the old CVS repository still exists for historical access).
! 956: Several maintenance scripts were updated to work with git.
! 957:
! 958: - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository. The
! 959: autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the
! 960: normal use of "configure" and "make". The latest dev versions of all
! 961: generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the
! 962: prepare-source script's fetch option).
! 963:
! 964: - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the
! 965: rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff).
! 966: This directory is now distributed in a separate separate tar file named
! 967: rsync-patches-VERSION.tar.gz instead of the main rsync-VERSION.tar.gz.
! 968:
! 969: - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a
! 970: complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible.
! 971:
! 972: - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub-
! 973: directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing). This allows
! 974: someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is
! 975: useful if the build dir's filesystem does not support ACLs and xattrs,
! 976: but another filesystem does).
! 977:
! 978: - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
! 979: development of a new protocol version. This causes any out-of-sync
! 980: versions to speak an older protocol rather than fail in a cryptic manner.
! 981: This addition makes it safer to deploy a pre-release version that may
! 982: interact with the public. This new exchange of sub-version info does not
! 983: interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which
! 984: does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be
! 985: incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development).
! 986:
! 987: - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change
! 988: in the 3.0.0 release.
! 989:
! 990:
! 991: NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
! 992: Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
! 993: Changes since 2.6.8:
! 994:
! 995: BUG FIXES:
! 996:
! 997: - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
! 998: once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
! 999:
! 1000: - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
! 1001: --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
! 1002: the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
! 1003: these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
! 1004: (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
! 1005: incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
! 1006: how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
! 1007:
! 1008: - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
! 1009: directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
! 1010: generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
! 1011: also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
! 1012: the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
! 1013: process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
! 1014: receiving files.)
! 1015:
! 1016: - Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
! 1017: update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
! 1018: notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
! 1019: instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
! 1020:
! 1021: - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
! 1022: relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
! 1023: gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
! 1024:
! 1025: - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
! 1026: destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
! 1027: when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
! 1028:
! 1029: - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
! 1030: trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
! 1031:
! 1032: - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
! 1033: will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
! 1034: even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
! 1035:
! 1036: - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
! 1037: chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
! 1038: from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
! 1039: over and over again).
! 1040:
! 1041: - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
! 1042: it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
! 1043: to successfully update a destination file.
! 1044:
! 1045: - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
! 1046: merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
! 1047: only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
! 1048: done for global include/excludes).
! 1049:
! 1050: - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
! 1051: the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
! 1052:
! 1053: - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
! 1054: the filesystem with --relative enabled.
! 1055:
! 1056: - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
! 1057: permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
! 1058: problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
! 1059: will not update a file that has no write permissions).
! 1060:
! 1061: - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
! 1062: are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
! 1063:
! 1064: - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
! 1065: directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
! 1066:
! 1067: - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
! 1068: overly long.
! 1069:
! 1070: - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
! 1071: longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
! 1072: the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
! 1073: may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
! 1074:
! 1075: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1076:
! 1077: - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
! 1078: can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
! 1079: They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
! 1080: page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
! 1081: settings when starting a daemon.
! 1082:
! 1083: - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
! 1084: it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
! 1085: alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
! 1086:
! 1087: - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
! 1088: the daemon's config file.
! 1089:
! 1090: - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
! 1091: deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
! 1092: non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
! 1093: up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
! 1094: was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
! 1095: a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
! 1096: (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
! 1097: still behaves in the same way as before.)
! 1098:
! 1099: - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
! 1100: from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
! 1101:
! 1102: - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
! 1103: the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
! 1104: both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used as a unique ID
! 1105: if the pre-xfer command wants to cache some arg/request info for the
! 1106: post-xfer command.
! 1107:
! 1108: INTERNAL:
! 1109:
! 1110: - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
! 1111: changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
! 1112: calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
! 1113: an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
! 1114: values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
! 1115: functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
! 1116: could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
! 1117: that conditionally compiles the code.
! 1118:
! 1119: - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
! 1120: top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
! 1121:
! 1122: - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
! 1123: The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
! 1124: was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
! 1125: any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
! 1126:
! 1127: - The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
! 1128: define it.
! 1129:
! 1130: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 1131:
! 1132: - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
! 1133: make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
! 1134: The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD
! 1135: compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended
! 1136: file-attributes.
! 1137:
! 1138: - A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
! 1139: maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
! 1140: without actually running as root. It does this using a special
! 1141: extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
! 1142: acls.diff).
! 1143:
! 1144: - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
! 1145: better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
! 1146:
! 1147: - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions.
! 1148:
! 1149: - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
! 1150: consistent opening comments.
! 1151:
! 1152:
! 1153: NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
! 1154: Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
! 1155: Changes since 2.6.7:
! 1156:
! 1157: BUG FIXES:
! 1158:
! 1159: - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
! 1160: wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
! 1161: is in effect.
! 1162:
! 1163: - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
! 1164: receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
! 1165: never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
! 1166: the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
! 1167:
! 1168: - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
! 1169: that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
! 1170: beyond the failed read's data.
! 1171:
! 1172: - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
! 1173: in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
! 1174: init).
! 1175:
! 1176: - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
! 1177: instead of silently ignoring the option.
! 1178:
! 1179: - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
! 1180: fifos) from being linked.
! 1181:
! 1182: - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
! 1183: configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
! 1184: creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
! 1185:
! 1186: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1187:
! 1188: - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
! 1189: error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
! 1190:
! 1191: - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
! 1192: message.
! 1193:
! 1194: - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
! 1195:
! 1196: - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
! 1197: that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
! 1198:
! 1199: - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
! 1200: attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
! 1201: taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
! 1202:
! 1203: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 1204:
! 1205: - Removed the unused function write_int_named(), the unused variable
! 1206: io_read_phase, and the rarely used variable io_write_phase. This also
! 1207: elides the confusing 'phase "unknown"' part of one error message.
! 1208:
! 1209: - Removed two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
! 1210: compatibility functions.
! 1211:
! 1212: - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
! 1213: buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
! 1214:
! 1215: - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
! 1216:
! 1217: - A new patch was added: log-file.diff. This contains an early version of
! 1218: a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
! 1219: actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
! 1220:
! 1221:
! 1222: NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
! 1223: Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
! 1224: Changes since 2.6.6:
! 1225:
! 1226: OUTPUT CHANGES:
! 1227:
! 1228: - The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices
! 1229: (character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and
! 1230: named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files
! 1231: under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the
! 1232: "--specials" option, below.
! 1233:
! 1234: - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
! 1235: now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
! 1236: your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
! 1237: for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
! 1238: "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
! 1239: digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
! 1240: (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
! 1241: escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
! 1242: (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
! 1243: the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below.
! 1244:
! 1245: Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
! 1246: so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
! 1247: suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
! 1248: old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
! 1249:
! 1250: BUG FIXES:
! 1251:
! 1252: - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
! 1253: files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
! 1254:
! 1255: - Fixed a potential hang in a remote generator: when the receiver gets a
! 1256: read-error on the socket, it now signals the generator about this so that
! 1257: the generator does not try to send any of the terminating error messages
! 1258: to the client (avoiding a potential hang in some setups).
! 1259:
! 1260: - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
! 1261:
! 1262: - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this
! 1263: error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting
! 1264: it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors).
! 1265:
! 1266: - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
! 1267: permissions without recreating the file.
! 1268:
! 1269: - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
! 1270: we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
! 1271: hostspec as a filename.
! 1272:
! 1273: - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
! 1274: permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
! 1275: the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
! 1276:
! 1277: - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
! 1278: algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
! 1279:
! 1280: - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
! 1281: fails.
! 1282:
! 1283: - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
! 1284:
! 1285: - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
! 1286: require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
! 1287:
! 1288: - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
! 1289: the exit status properly and generate a better error.
! 1290:
! 1291: - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
! 1292: --link-dest, or --compare-dest. Also improved how the verbose output
! 1293: handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
! 1294: "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest).
! 1295:
! 1296: - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
! 1297: that have a path component containing a slash.
! 1298:
! 1299: - If the code reading a filter/exclude file gets an EINTR error, rsync now
! 1300: clears the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
! 1301:
! 1302: - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
! 1303: suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
! 1304: reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
! 1305:
! 1306: - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
! 1307: --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
! 1308: to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
! 1309:
! 1310: - When --list-only is used and a non-existent local destination dir was
! 1311: also specified as a destination, rsync no longer generates a warning
! 1312: about being unable to create the missing directory.
! 1313:
! 1314: - Fixed some problems with --relative --no-implied-dirs when the
! 1315: destination directory did not yet exist: we can now create a symlink or
! 1316: device when it is the first thing in the missing dir, and --fuzzy no
! 1317: longer complains about being unable to open the missing dir.
! 1318:
! 1319: - Fixed a bug where the --copy-links option would not affect implied
! 1320: directories without --copy-unsafe-links (see --relative).
! 1321:
! 1322: - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
! 1323: --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
! 1324:
! 1325: - Rsync now ignores the SIGXFSZ signal, just in case your OS sends this
! 1326: when a file is too large (rsync handles the write error).
! 1327:
! 1328: - Fixed a bug in the Proxy-Authorization header's base64-encoded value: it
! 1329: was not properly padded with trailing '=' chars. This only affects a
! 1330: user that need to use a password-authenticated proxy for an outgoing
! 1331: daemon-rsync connection.
! 1332:
! 1333: - If we're transferring an empty directory to a new name, rsync no longer
! 1334: forces S_IWUSR if it wasn't already set, nor does it accidentally leave
! 1335: it set.
! 1336:
! 1337: - Fixed a bug in the debug output (-vvvvv) that could mention the wrong
! 1338: checksum for the current file offset.
! 1339:
! 1340: - Rsync no longer allows a single directory to be copied over a non-
! 1341: directory destination arg.
! 1342:
! 1343: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1344:
! 1345: - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
! 1346: are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files).
! 1347:
! 1348: - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
! 1349: transfer.
! 1350:
! 1351: - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
! 1352: rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
! 1353:
! 1354: - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to
! 1355: allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
! 1356: and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
! 1357:
! 1358: - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
! 1359: high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
! 1360:
! 1361: - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
! 1362: --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
! 1363: the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old
! 1364: meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you
! 1365: just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".)
! 1366:
! 1367: - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
! 1368: preservation of attributes on symlinks.
! 1369:
! 1370: - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
! 1371:
! 1372: - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" and
! 1373: "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a per-module
! 1374: basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. (See
! 1375: the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
! 1376: information about the transfer.)
! 1377:
! 1378: - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
! 1379: the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
! 1380: should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
! 1381: rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
! 1382: replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
! 1383: dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
! 1384:
! 1385: - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
! 1386: implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive
! 1387: --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
! 1388: that is implied by -a.
! 1389:
! 1390: - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
! 1391: be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
! 1392:
! 1393: - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
! 1394: a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
! 1395: files copied to and from the daemon.
! 1396:
! 1397: - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
! 1398: sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
! 1399:
! 1400: - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
! 1401: delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
! 1402:
! 1403: - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
! 1404: --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files
! 1405: with the backup suffix are not deleted.
! 1406:
! 1407: - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
! 1408: better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
! 1409: "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
! 1410: to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
! 1411: a total of 9999.
! 1412:
! 1413: - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
! 1414: stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
! 1415: dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
! 1416:
! 1417: - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
! 1418: discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
! 1419: easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
! 1420: just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
! 1421:
! 1422: - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
! 1423: unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
! 1424: the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
! 1425: client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
! 1426: needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
! 1427:
! 1428: - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special
! 1429: files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices
! 1430: option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block).
! 1431: The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a
! 1432: still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that
! 1433: omits device copying.
! 1434:
! 1435: - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user
! 1436: activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
! 1437: to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
! 1438: useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
! 1439: receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
! 1440:
! 1441: - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
! 1442: options used to contact a daemon rsync.
! 1443:
! 1444: - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
! 1445: setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
! 1446: --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
! 1447:
! 1448: - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
! 1449: into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
! 1450:
! 1451: - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
! 1452: execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
! 1453: not desired.
! 1454:
! 1455: - The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
! 1456: that it receives.
! 1457:
! 1458: - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
! 1459: (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
! 1460:
! 1461: - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
! 1462:
! 1463: - The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
! 1464: removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
! 1465: clump up all the removals at the end).
! 1466:
! 1467: - A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
! 1468: PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator
! 1469: can get the child-exit status from the receiver.
! 1470:
! 1471: - Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
! 1472: sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
! 1473:
! 1474: - Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
! 1475: and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
! 1476: the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
! 1477:
! 1478: - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
! 1479:
! 1480: - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
! 1481: improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
! 1482: --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
! 1483: --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
! 1484: discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
! 1485: matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
! 1486: documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
! 1487:
! 1488: - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
! 1489: xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
! 1490:
! 1491: INTERNAL:
! 1492:
! 1493: - We now use sigaction() and sigprocmask() if possible, and fall back on
! 1494: signal() if not. Using sigprocmask() ensures that rsync enables all the
! 1495: signals that it needs, just in case it was started in a masked state.
! 1496:
! 1497: - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
! 1498: MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
! 1499:
! 1500: - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
! 1501: with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
! 1502:
! 1503: - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
! 1504: the VA_COPY macro.
! 1505:
! 1506: - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
! 1507: recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
! 1508:
! 1509: - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be
! 1510: supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less
! 1511: string copying.
! 1512:
! 1513: - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
! 1514: replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the
! 1515: output going to the terminal.
! 1516:
! 1517: - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
! 1518:
! 1519: - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make
! 1520: it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster.
! 1521:
! 1522: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 1523:
! 1524: - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1 <DIFF" instead of
! 1525: the previous -p0. Also, the version included in the release tar now
! 1526: affect generated files (e.g. configure, rsync.1, proto.h, etc.), so
! 1527: it is no longer necessary to run autoconf and/or yodl unless you're
! 1528: applying a patch that was checked out from CVS.
! 1529:
! 1530: - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
! 1531: configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
! 1532: the newly patched feature.
! 1533:
! 1534: - There is a new script, "prepare-source" than can be used to update the
! 1535: various generated files (proto.h, configure, etc.) even before configure
! 1536: has created the Makefile (this is mainly useful when patching the source
! 1537: with a patch that doesn't affect generated files).
! 1538:
! 1539: - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affected by a file such
! 1540: as ~/.popt.
! 1541:
! 1542:
! 1543: NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (28 Jul 2005)
! 1544: Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
! 1545: Changes since 2.6.5:
! 1546:
! 1547: SECURITY FIXES:
! 1548:
! 1549: - The zlib code was upgraded to version 1.2.3 in order to make it more
! 1550: secure. While the widely-publicized security problem in zlib 1.2.2 did
! 1551: not affect rsync, another security problem surfaced that affects rsync's
! 1552: zlib 1.1.4.
! 1553:
! 1554: BUG FIXES:
! 1555:
! 1556: - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
! 1557: This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
! 1558: (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
! 1559: combined with --link-dest).
! 1560:
! 1561: - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
! 1562: (1) Without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as
! 1563: though it had been changed; it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for
! 1564: the file. (2) With -i it would output all dots for the unchanged
! 1565: attributes of a hard-link; it now changes those dots to spaces, as is
! 1566: done for other totally unchanged items.
! 1567:
! 1568: - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
! 1569: item so that we don't get an "already exists" error.
! 1570:
! 1571: - A couple places that were comparing a local and a remote modification-
! 1572: time were not honoring the --modify-window option.
! 1573:
! 1574: - Fixed a bug where the 'p' (permissions) itemized-changes flag might get
! 1575: set too often (if some non-significant mode bits differed).
! 1576:
! 1577: - Fixed a really old, minor bug that could cause rsync to warn about being
! 1578: unable to mkdir() a path that ends in "/." because it just created the
! 1579: directory (required --relative, --no-implied-dirs, a source path that
! 1580: ended in either a trailing slash or a trailing "/.", and a non-existing
! 1581: destination dir to tickle the bug in a recent version).
! 1582:
! 1583: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1584:
! 1585: - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
! 1586: per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
! 1587:
! 1588: - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
! 1589: that take args (instead of rejecting any such options). The script was
! 1590: also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
! 1591: of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
! 1592:
! 1593: - Improved the documentation that explains the difference between a
! 1594: normal daemon transfer and a daemon-over remote-shell transfer.
! 1595:
! 1596: - Some of the diffs supplied in the patches dir were fixed and/or
! 1597: improved.
! 1598:
! 1599: BUILD CHANGES:
! 1600:
! 1601: - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
! 1602: NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
! 1603: find in the /etc/group file).
! 1604:
! 1605: - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
! 1606: -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
! 1607:
! 1608:
! 1609: NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
! 1610: Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
! 1611: Changes since 2.6.4:
! 1612:
! 1613: OUTPUT CHANGES:
! 1614:
! 1615: - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
! 1616: escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
! 1617: output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
! 1618: is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
! 1619: can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
! 1620:
! 1621: - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
! 1622: output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
! 1623: status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
! 1624: this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed
! 1625: to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior: we
! 1626: now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
! 1627: exit with the appropriate exit status.
! 1628:
! 1629: BUG FIXES:
! 1630:
! 1631: - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
! 1632: not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
! 1633: rsyncd.conf file.
! 1634:
! 1635: - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
! 1636: (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
! 1637:
! 1638: - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
! 1639: write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
! 1640: only caused an annoying warning message).
! 1641:
! 1642: - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
! 1643: basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
! 1644: is in effect.
! 1645:
! 1646: - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
! 1647: processing.
! 1648:
! 1649: - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
! 1650: addition to its use in daemon mode).
! 1651:
! 1652: - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
! 1653: processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
! 1654: newline.
! 1655:
! 1656: - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
! 1657: as a "directory", not a "file".
! 1658:
! 1659: - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
! 1660: generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
! 1661: the file by the destination filename.
! 1662:
! 1663: - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
! 1664: generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
! 1665:
! 1666: - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
! 1667: to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
! 1668: of the cluster.
! 1669:
! 1670: - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
! 1671: no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
! 1672: receiving side. Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
! 1673: the mount-point dir.
! 1674:
! 1675: - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
! 1676: sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
! 1677:
! 1678: - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
! 1679: trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
! 1680:
! 1681: - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
! 1682: handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
! 1683:
! 1684: - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
! 1685: --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
! 1686: slash.
! 1687:
! 1688: - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
! 1689: re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
! 1690: (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
! 1691: trailing slash.
! 1692:
! 1693: - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
! 1694:
! 1695: - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
! 1696: the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
! 1697: messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
! 1698:
! 1699: - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
! 1700: "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
! 1701: dir of the destination).
! 1702:
! 1703: - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
! 1704: transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
! 1705: delete anything.
! 1706:
! 1707: - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
! 1708: "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
! 1709:
! 1710: - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
! 1711: for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
! 1712: compatibility with OS variations).
! 1713:
! 1714: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1715:
! 1716: - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
! 1717: of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
! 1718: actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
! 1719: the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
! 1720: are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
! 1721:
! 1722: - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
! 1723: (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
! 1724: periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
! 1725: can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
! 1726:
! 1727: - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
! 1728: sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
! 1729: the checksum data for a large file.
! 1730:
! 1731: - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
! 1732: some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user,
! 1733: password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
! 1734:
! 1735: - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
! 1736: it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
! 1737: really did expect the socket to close).
! 1738:
! 1739: - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
! 1740: back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better
! 1741: than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
! 1742: daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
! 1743: necessary to see the error on stderr).
! 1744:
! 1745: - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
! 1746: instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
! 1747: non-daemon transfer).
! 1748:
! 1749: - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
! 1750: support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
! 1751: when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
! 1752: other similar options being added at some point).
! 1753:
! 1754: INTERNAL:
! 1755:
! 1756: - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to
! 1757: better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
! 1758: messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
! 1759: locales).
! 1760:
! 1761: - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
! 1762:
! 1763: - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
! 1764: someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
! 1765:
! 1766: BUILD CHANGES:
! 1767:
! 1768: - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
! 1769: setlocale() in the binary.
! 1770:
! 1771: - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
! 1772: rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
! 1773:
! 1774: - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
! 1775:
! 1776: - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
! 1777: refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
! 1778:
! 1779: - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
! 1780: the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
! 1781: presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
! 1782:
! 1783: - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
! 1784: (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
! 1785:
! 1786: - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
! 1787:
! 1788: - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
! 1789: that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
! 1790:
! 1791:
! 1792: NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005)
! 1793: Protocol: 29 (changed)
! 1794: Changes since 2.6.3:
! 1795:
! 1796: OUTPUT CHANGES:
! 1797:
! 1798: - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
! 1799: it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
! 1800: sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
! 1801:
! 1802: - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
! 1803: sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
! 1804: being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
! 1805: (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.)
! 1806:
! 1807: - The "%o" (operation) log-format escape now has a third value (besides
! 1808: "send" and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars).
! 1809: This changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file.
! 1810:
! 1811: - When the --log-format option is combined with --verbose, rsync now
! 1812: avoids outputting the name of the file twice in most circumstances.
! 1813: As long as the --log-format item does not refer to any post-transfer
! 1814: items (such as %b or %c), the --log-format message is output prior to
! 1815: the transfer, so --verbose is now the equivalent of a --log-format of
! 1816: '%n%L' (which outputs the name and any link info). If the log output
! 1817: must occur after the transfer to be complete, the only time the name
! 1818: is also output prior to the transfer is when --progress was specified
! 1819: (so that the name will precede the progress stats, and the full
! 1820: --log-format output will come after).
! 1821:
! 1822: - Non-printable characters in filenames are replaced with a '?' to
! 1823: avoid corrupting the screen or generating empty lines in the output.
! 1824:
! 1825: BUG FIXES:
! 1826:
! 1827: - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
! 1828: was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
! 1829: file).
! 1830:
! 1831: - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list
! 1832: of changes that would be output without --dry-run.
! 1833:
! 1834: - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
! 1835: that already exists in the --backup-dir.
! 1836:
! 1837: - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed
! 1838: setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
! 1839: mkstemp(). (Fix derived from cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
! 1840:
! 1841: - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
! 1842: the sender, and the file-list is large.
! 1843:
! 1844: - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could
! 1845: merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a multiplexed
! 1846: packet of data if only part of that data had been written out to the
! 1847: socket when the message from the generator arrived.
! 1848:
! 1849: - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
! 1850: FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in some compatibility code using
! 1851: mkfifo() and socket() when necessary.
! 1852:
! 1853: - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. Also,
! 1854: if the --max-delete limit is exceeded during a run, we now output a
! 1855: warning about this at the end of the run and exit with a new error
! 1856: code (25).
! 1857:
! 1858: - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
! 1859:
! 1860: - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect
! 1861: readable symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file.
! 1862:
! 1863: - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will
! 1864: affect the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try
! 1865: to set the user and group of a symlink.
! 1866:
! 1867: - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
! 1868: rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
! 1869:
! 1870: - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, where DIR is a
! 1871: relative path, the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
! 1872: file that was put into the partial-dir.
! 1873:
! 1874: - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option is
! 1875: enabled along with --inplace, rsync no longer performs a duplicate
! 1876: backup (it used to overwrite the first backup with the failed file).
! 1877:
! 1878: - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
! 1879:
! 1880: - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
! 1881: server sender.
! 1882:
! 1883: - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
! 1884: client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
! 1885: compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
! 1886: if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have
! 1887: exited with an error for large files).
! 1888:
! 1889: - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and
! 1890: sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually
! 1891: specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior
! 1892: versions of rsync would sometimes fail to decompress the data
! 1893: properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification.
! 1894:
! 1895: - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
! 1896: being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about
! 1897: the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
! 1898: specified) and exit with a new error code (6).
! 1899:
! 1900: - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
! 1901: (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
! 1902: there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
! 1903:
! 1904: - The output of the items that are being updated by the generator (dirs,
! 1905: symlinks, devices) is now intermingled in the proper order with the
! 1906: output from the items that the receiver is updating (regular files)
! 1907: when pulling. This misordering was particularly bad when --progress
! 1908: was specified. (Requires protocol 29.)
! 1909:
! 1910: - When --timeout is specified, lulls that occur in the transfer while
! 1911: the generator is doing work that does not generate socket traffic
! 1912: (looking for changed files, deleting files, doing directory-time
! 1913: touch-ups, etc.) will cause a new keep-alive packet to be sent that
! 1914: should keep the transfer going as long as the generator continues to
! 1915: make progress. (Requires protocol 29.)
! 1916:
! 1917: - The stat size of a device is not added to the total file size of the
! 1918: items in the transfer (the size might be undefined on some OSes).
! 1919:
! 1920: - Fixed a problem with refused-option messages sometimes not making it
! 1921: back to the client side when a remote --files-from was in effect and
! 1922: the daemon was the receiver.
! 1923:
! 1924: - The --compare-dest option was not updating a file that differed in
! 1925: (the preserved) attributes from the version in the compare-dest DIR.
! 1926:
! 1927: - When rsync is copying files into a write-protected directory, fixed
! 1928: the change-report output for the directory so that we don't report
! 1929: an identical directory as changed.
! 1930:
! 1931: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 1932:
! 1933: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
! 1934: use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
! 1935:
! 1936: - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
! 1937: from the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
! 1938: transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the
! 1939: default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now also available as
! 1940: --delete-before (and is still the default --delete-WHEN option that
! 1941: will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without
! 1942: a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so
! 1943: an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
! 1944: file-deleting options (including the new --remove-sent-files option).
! 1945:
! 1946: - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
! 1947: Previously an duplicate set of file-list objects was created on the
! 1948: receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
! 1949: algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time (for files
! 1950: inside the transfer).
! 1951:
! 1952: - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
! 1953: that it locally copies identical files instead of hard-linking them.
! 1954:
! 1955: - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
! 1956: --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
! 1957: patches dir and enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
! 1958:
! 1959: - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
! 1960:
! 1961: - The daemon-mode options are now separated from the normal rsync
! 1962: options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it
! 1963: impossible to start a daemon that has improper default option values
! 1964: (which could cause problems when a client connects, such as hanging
! 1965: or crashing).
! 1966:
! 1967: - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
! 1968: to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
! 1969: that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
! 1970:
! 1971: - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
! 1972: the patches dir.) Also added "address". The command-line options
! 1973: take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
! 1974:
! 1975: - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
! 1976: file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
! 1977: partial file.
! 1978:
! 1979: - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
! 1980: --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
! 1981: 29.)
! 1982:
! 1983: - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
! 1984: without recursion. Any directories that are encountered are created
! 1985: on the destination. Specifying a directory with a trailing slash
! 1986: copies its immediate contents to the destination.
! 1987:
! 1988: - The --files-from option now implies --dirs (-d).
! 1989:
! 1990: - Added the --list-only option, which is mainly a way for the client to
! 1991: put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
! 1992: internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*"
! 1993: for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically
! 1994: (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon,
! 1995: but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
! 1996: the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
! 1997:
! 1998: - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating
! 1999: the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
! 2000: option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
! 2001: the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which may provide
! 2002: an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
! 2003: the patches dir.)
! 2004:
! 2005: - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
! 2006: rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
! 2007: that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
! 2008: filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
! 2009: This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
! 2010: include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
! 2011: versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but
! 2012: backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.
! 2013: (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.)
! 2014:
! 2015: - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
! 2016: a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
! 2017: --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
! 2018: makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
! 2019:
! 2020: - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
! 2021: reduced.
! 2022:
! 2023: - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
! 2024: setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
! 2025:
! 2026: - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
! 2027: they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a
! 2028: non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone
! 2029: very wrong).
! 2030:
! 2031: - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a
! 2032: more detailed list of what files changed and in what way. The effect
! 2033: is the same as specifying a --log-format of "%i %n%L" (see both the
! 2034: rsync and rsyncd.conf manpages). Works with --dry-run too.
! 2035:
! 2036: - Added the --fuzzy (-y) option, which attempts to find a basis file
! 2037: for a file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm
! 2038: only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but it
! 2039: does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the file
! 2040: was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy
! 2041: name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because it
! 2042: needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir and
! 2043: enhanced.) (Requires protocol 29.)
! 2044:
! 2045: - Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files
! 2046: between systems.
! 2047:
! 2048: - The hostname in HOST:PATH or HOST::PATH may now be an IPv6 literal
! 2049: enclosed in '[' and ']' (e.g. "[::1]"). (We already allowed IPv6
! 2050: literals in the rsync://HOST:PORT/PATH format.)
! 2051:
! 2052: - When rsync recurses to build the file list, it no longer keeps open
! 2053: one or more directory handles from the dir's parent dirs.
! 2054:
! 2055: - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to
! 2056: avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync
! 2057: to detach.
! 2058:
! 2059: - The --dry-run option can now be combined with either --write-batch or
! 2060: --read-batch, allowing you to run a do-nothing test command to see
! 2061: what would happen without --dry-run.
! 2062:
! 2063: - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only
! 2064: variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the
! 2065: read-only side can succeed.
! 2066:
! 2067: - The log-format % escapes can now have a numeric field width in
! 2068: between the % and the escape letter (e.g. "%-40n %08p").
! 2069:
! 2070: - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
! 2071:
! 2072: SUPPORT FILES:
! 2073:
! 2074: - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will
! 2075: transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into
! 2076: place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when
! 2077: pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to
! 2078: effect its update.
! 2079:
! 2080: - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the
! 2081: /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will
! 2082: exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The
! 2083: excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly
! 2084: anchored.
! 2085:
! 2086: - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make
! 2087: a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test
! 2088: for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and
! 2089: the receiving side) and provides one way to debug a protocol error.
! 2090:
! 2091: - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is an updated version of Joe
! 2092: Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only
! 2093: certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation.
! 2094:
! 2095: INTERNAL:
! 2096:
! 2097: - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
! 2098: the socket.
! 2099:
! 2100: - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so
! 2101: that it is easier to maintain.
! 2102:
! 2103: - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
! 2104: consistency and proper size.
! 2105:
! 2106: - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
! 2107:
! 2108: - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
! 2109:
! 2110: - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
! 2111: find a variable with at least 32 bits.
! 2112:
! 2113: PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
! 2114:
! 2115: - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This
! 2116: indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The
! 2117: generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when
! 2118: dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message),
! 2119: which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and
! 2120: less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is
! 2121: now outputting all the file-change info messages).
! 2122:
! 2123: - If a file is being hard-linked, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit is enabled
! 2124: in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately
! 2125: follows in vstring format (see below).
! 2126:
! 2127: - If a file is being transferred with an alternate-basis file, the
! 2128: ITEM_BASIS_TYPE_FOLLOWS bit is enabled in the flag-word and a single
! 2129: byte follows, indicating what type of basis file was chosen. If that
! 2130: indicates that a fuzzy-match was selected, the ITEM_XNAME_FOLLOWS bit
! 2131: is set in the flag-word and the name of the match in vstring format
! 2132: follows the basis byte. A vstring is a variable length string that
! 2133: has its size written prior to the string, and no terminating null.
! 2134: If the string is from 1-127 bytes, the length is a single byte. If
! 2135: it is from 128-32767 bytes, the length is written as ((len >> 8) |
! 2136: 0x80) followed by (len % 0x100).
! 2137:
! 2138: - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
! 2139: means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
! 2140: (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
! 2141: option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
! 2142: filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
! 2143: transfer scenarios).
! 2144:
! 2145: - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir
! 2146: names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it
! 2147: always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the
! 2148: list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
! 2149: directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
! 2150:
! 2151: - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
! 2152: is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and
! 2153: the new --list-only option is included in the options.
! 2154:
! 2155: - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
! 2156: they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
! 2157: build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
! 2158: wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
! 2159:
! 2160: - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
! 2161: excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to
! 2162: the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in
! 2163: this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that
! 2164: survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the
! 2165: filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other
! 2166: side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list
! 2167: that is sent in this scenario is often empty.
! 2168:
! 2169: - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet
! 2170: from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the
! 2171: receiver. This normally invalid index is only a valid keep-alive
! 2172: packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit
! 2173: (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone).
! 2174:
! 2175: - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
! 2176: option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell
! 2177: script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead
! 2178: of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
! 2179:
! 2180: BUILD CHANGES:
! 2181:
! 2182: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
! 2183:
! 2184: - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
! 2185:
! 2186:
! 2187: NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
! 2188: Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
! 2189: Changes since 2.6.2:
! 2190:
! 2191: SECURITY FIXES:
! 2192:
! 2193: - A bug in the sanitize_path routine (which affects a non-chrooted
! 2194: rsync daemon) could allow a user to craft a pathname that would get
! 2195: transformed into an absolute path for certain options (but not for
! 2196: file-transfer names). If you're running an rsync daemon with chroot
! 2197: disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the user privs you run
! 2198: rsync under is anything above "nobody".
! 2199:
! 2200: OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
! 2201:
! 2202: - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
! 2203: term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read". If
! 2204: you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
! 2205: would be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
! 2206: indicator that the verbose output is over.
! 2207:
! 2208: - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
! 2209: "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
! 2210:
! 2211: - Rsync ensures that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned
! 2212: with each newline transformed into a question mark (which prevents a
! 2213: filename from causing an empty line to be output).
! 2214:
! 2215: - The "backed up ..." message that is output when at least 2 --verbose
! 2216: options are specified is now the same both with and without the
! 2217: --backup-dir option.
! 2218:
! 2219: BUG FIXES:
! 2220:
! 2221: - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
! 2222: multiple source directories were specified.
! 2223:
! 2224: - Fixed a 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
! 2225: checksums.
! 2226:
! 2227: - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
! 2228: over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
! 2229:
! 2230: - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
! 2231: the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
! 2232: terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
! 2233:
! 2234: - If a file has a read error on the sending side or the reconstructed
! 2235: data doesn't match the expected checksum (perhaps due to the basis
! 2236: file changing during the transfer), the receiver will no longer
! 2237: retain the resulting file unless the --partial option was specified.
! 2238: (Note: for the read-error detection to work, neither side can be
! 2239: older than 2.6.3 -- older receivers will always retain the file, and
! 2240: older senders don't tell the receiver that the file had a read
! 2241: error.)
! 2242:
! 2243: - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
! 2244: is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (it used to
! 2245: overwrite the original file in the backup area).
! 2246:
! 2247: - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
! 2248: items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
! 2249: allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
! 2250:
! 2251: - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
! 2252: phase.
! 2253:
! 2254: - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
! 2255: the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
! 2256:
! 2257: - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
! 2258: for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
! 2259: "vanished".
! 2260:
! 2261: - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
! 2262: the receiving side to follow symlinks. See the --keep-dirlinks
! 2263: option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
! 2264:
! 2265: - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
! 2266: refused options) are now successfully transferred back to the client
! 2267: (the server used to fail to send the message because the socket
! 2268: wasn't in the right state for the message to get through).
! 2269:
! 2270: - Most transfer errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now
! 2271: returned to the user in addition to being logged (some messages are
! 2272: intended to be daemon-only and are not affected by this).
! 2273:
! 2274: - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
! 2275: batch-processing options.
! 2276:
! 2277: - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
! 2278: implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
! 2279: that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
! 2280: implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
! 2281: suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
! 2282: help).
! 2283:
! 2284: - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
! 2285: messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
! 2286: die with a socket-write error).
! 2287:
! 2288: - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
! 2289: hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
! 2290: that removed files really get removed (avoids a really weird rename()
! 2291: behavior).
! 2292:
! 2293: - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
! 2294: the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
! 2295:
! 2296: - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
! 2297: can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
! 2298: This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
! 2299: AIX and HP-UX.
! 2300:
! 2301: - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
! 2302: (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
! 2303:
! 2304: - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
! 2305: exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
! 2306: sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.
! 2307:
! 2308: - Fixed a bug that could cause a slow-to-connect rsync daemon to die
! 2309: with an error instead of waiting for the connection to finish.
! 2310:
! 2311: - Fixed an ssh interaction that could cause output to be lost when the
! 2312: user chose to combine the output of rsync's stdout and stderr (e.g.
! 2313: using the "2>&1").
! 2314:
! 2315: - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from got passed to a daemon.
! 2316:
! 2317: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2318:
! 2319: - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
! 2320: (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
! 2321: writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
! 2322: Also added support for the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable
! 2323: that, when found, transforms a regular --partial option (such as
! 2324: the convenient -P option) into one that also specifies a directory.
! 2325:
! 2326: - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
! 2327: onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
! 2328: as matching a normal directory from the sender.
! 2329:
! 2330: - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
! 2331: file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
! 2332: in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
! 2333: are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
! 2334: Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
! 2335:
! 2336: - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
! 2337:
! 2338: - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
! 2339: and documented all these options in the man page.
! 2340:
! 2341: - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
! 2342: bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
! 2343: values.
! 2344:
! 2345: - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
! 2346: SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
! 2347:
! 2348: - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
! 2349:
! 2350: - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
! 2351: fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
! 2352: sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
! 2353: systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
! 2354: to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
! 2355: file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch on
! 2356: stdin via a remote shell. Also, the old requirement of forcing the
! 2357: same fixed checksum-seed for all batch processing has been removed.
! 2358:
! 2359: - If an rsync daemon has a module set with "list = no" (which hides its
! 2360: presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
! 2361: authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
! 2362: if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
! 2363: error to the daemon's log file). This prevents fishing for module
! 2364: names.
! 2365:
! 2366: - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
! 2367: option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
! 2368:
! 2369: - Each transferred file now gets its permissions and modified-time
! 2370: updated before the temp-file gets moved into place. Previously, the
! 2371: finished file would have a very brief window where its permissions
! 2372: disallowed all group and world access.
! 2373:
! 2374: - Added the ability to parse a literal IPv6 address in an "rsync:" URL
! 2375: (e.g. rsync://[2001:638:500:101::21]:873/module/dir).
! 2376:
! 2377: - The daemon's wildcard expanding code can now handle more than 1000
! 2378: filenames (it's now limited by memory instead of having a hard-wired
! 2379: limit).
! 2380:
! 2381: INTERNAL:
! 2382:
! 2383: - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
! 2384: and made the code easier to maintain.
! 2385:
! 2386: - Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has a
! 2387: lot of args.
! 2388:
! 2389: - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling rprintf()
! 2390: with strerror() as an arg.
! 2391:
! 2392: - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
! 2393: IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
! 2394: handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
! 2395: them).
! 2396:
! 2397: - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to a
! 2398: crawl if the block size got too large).
! 2399:
! 2400: - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
! 2401:
! 2402: - Some improvements to the sanitize_path() and clean_fname() functions
! 2403: makes them more efficient and produce better results (while still
! 2404: being compatible with the file-name cleaning that gets done on both
! 2405: sides when sending the file-list).
! 2406:
! 2407: - Got rid of alloc_sanitize_path() after adding a destination-buffer
! 2408: arg to sanitize_path() made it possible to put all the former's
! 2409: functionality into the latter.
! 2410:
! 2411: - The file-list that is output when at least 4 verbose options are
! 2412: specified reports the uid value on the sender even when rsync is
! 2413: not running as root (since we might be sending to a root receiver).
! 2414:
! 2415: BUILD CHANGES:
! 2416:
! 2417: - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
! 2418: including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
! 2419:
! 2420: - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
! 2421: proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
! 2422: updated).
! 2423:
! 2424: - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
! 2425: target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
! 2426: have $STRIP already set in the environment.
! 2427:
! 2428: - Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
! 2429:
! 2430: - When cross-compiling, the gettimeofday() function is now assumed to
! 2431: be a modern version that takes two-args (since we can't test it).
! 2432:
! 2433: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 2434:
! 2435: - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit and a few
! 2436: new tests added.
! 2437:
! 2438: - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
! 2439: ones were removed.
! 2440:
! 2441:
! 2442: NEWS for rsync 2.6.2 (30 Apr 2004)
! 2443: Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
! 2444: Changes since 2.6.1:
! 2445:
! 2446: BUG FIXES:
! 2447:
! 2448: - Fixed a major bug in the sorting of the filenames when --relative
! 2449: is used for some sources (just sources such as "/" and "/*" were
! 2450: affected). This fix ensures that we ask for the right file-list
! 2451: item when requesting changes from the sender.
! 2452:
! 2453: - Rsync now checks the return value of the close() function to
! 2454: better report disk-full problems on an NFS file system.
! 2455:
! 2456: - Restored the old daemon-server behavior of logging error messages
! 2457: rather than returning them to the user. (A better long-term fix
! 2458: will be sought in the future.)
! 2459:
! 2460: - An obscure uninitialized-variable bug was fixed in the uid/gid
! 2461: code. (This bug probably had no ill effects.)
! 2462:
! 2463: BUILD CHANGES:
! 2464:
! 2465: - Got rid of the configure check for sys/sysctl.h (it wasn't used
! 2466: and was causing a problem on some systems). Also improved the
! 2467: broken-largefile-locking test to try to avoid failure due to an
! 2468: NFS build-dir.
! 2469:
! 2470: - Fixed a compile problem on systems that don't define
! 2471: AI_NUMERICHOST.
! 2472:
! 2473: - Fixed a compile problem in the popt source for compilers that
! 2474: don't support __attribute__.
! 2475:
! 2476: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 2477:
! 2478: - Improved the testsuite's "merge" test to work on OSF1.
! 2479:
! 2480: - Two new diffs were added to the patches dir.
! 2481:
! 2482:
! 2483: NEWS for rsync 2.6.1 (26 Apr 2004)
! 2484: Protocol: 28 (changed)
! 2485: Changes since 2.6.0:
! 2486:
! 2487: SECURITY FIXES:
! 2488:
! 2489: - Paths sent to an rsync daemon are more thoroughly sanitized when
! 2490: chroot is not used. If you're running a non-read-only rsync
! 2491: daemon with chroot disabled, *please upgrade*, ESPECIALLY if the
! 2492: user privs you run rsync under is anything above "nobody".
! 2493:
! 2494: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2495:
! 2496: - Lower memory use, more optimal transfer of data over the socket,
! 2497: and lower CPU usage (see the INTERNAL section for details).
! 2498:
! 2499: - The RSYNC_PROXY environment variable can now contain a
! 2500: "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information.
! 2501: (Bardur Arantsson)
! 2502:
! 2503: - The --progress output now mentions how far along in the transfer
! 2504: we are, including both a count of files transferred and a
! 2505: percentage of the total file-count that we've processed. It also
! 2506: shows better current-rate-of-transfer and remaining-transfer-time
! 2507: values.
! 2508:
! 2509: - Documentation changes now attempt to describe some often mis-
! 2510: understood features more clearly.
! 2511:
! 2512: BUG FIXES:
! 2513:
! 2514: - When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links) or
! 2515: --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even if the
! 2516: referent file is on a different filesystem.
! 2517:
! 2518: - The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user when
! 2519: (1) the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was
! 2520: specified, or (2) when the group of the source can't be used on
! 2521: the destination and -g was specified.
! 2522:
! 2523: - Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might cause
! 2524: the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to get
! 2525: overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
! 2526:
! 2527: - We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start of
! 2528: each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted transfer
! 2529: with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter temp file
! 2530: than the current basis file when no new data has been transferred
! 2531: over the wire for that file.
! 2532:
! 2533: - Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian machines.
! 2534: (Jay Fenlason)
! 2535:
! 2536: - When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
! 2537: per-directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
! 2538: directory (not all following directories too). The items are also
! 2539: now properly word-split and parsed without any +/- prefix parsing.
! 2540:
! 2541: - When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER part
! 2542: can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' is used to
! 2543: find the HOST, not the first).
! 2544:
! 2545: - Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root users:
! 2546: (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't have a name
! 2547: for (it would previously skip changing the group on any files in
! 2548: that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used, rsync no longer
! 2549: attempts to set groups that the user doesn't have the permission
! 2550: to set.
! 2551:
! 2552: - Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
! 2553:
! 2554: - Improved the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any mount-
! 2555: point directories we encounter. It is both more optimal (in that
! 2556: it no longer does a useless scan of the contents of the mount-
! 2557: point dirs) and also fixes a bug where a remapped mount of the
! 2558: original filesystem could get discovered in a subdir we should be
! 2559: ignoring.
! 2560:
! 2561: - Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
! 2562: when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
! 2563: that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them).
! 2564:
! 2565: - Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with
! 2566: or without chroot turned on. Previously, such a option (such as
! 2567: --link-dest) would get its absolute path munged into a relative
! 2568: one if chroot was not on, making that setting fairly useless.
! 2569: Rsync now transforms the path into one that is based on the
! 2570: module's base dir when chroot is not enabled.
! 2571:
! 2572: - Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync
! 2573: versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without
! 2574: telling us that --backup-dir was specified.
! 2575:
! 2576: - The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process
! 2577: now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix for systems
! 2578: that have a length field in their socket structs.
! 2579:
! 2580: - Fixed the ability to request an empty backup --suffix when sending
! 2581: files to an rsync daemon.
! 2582:
! 2583: - Fixed an option-parsing bug when --files-from was sent to a server
! 2584: sender.
! 2585:
! 2586: INTERNAL:
! 2587:
! 2588: - Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty large
! 2589: speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
! 2590:
! 2591: - Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made some
! 2592: significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file sets.
! 2593:
! 2594: - Some cleanup of the variable types make the code more consistent.
! 2595:
! 2596: - Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
! 2597: (J.W. Schultz)
! 2598:
! 2599: - Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds up
! 2600: the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
! 2601:
! 2602: - The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
! 2603: group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
! 2604: prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
! 2605: hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
! 2606: earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
! 2607: receiving side.
! 2608:
! 2609: - Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20 (2.3.0 released
! 2610: 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for protocols less than 25
! 2611: (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001). (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz,
! 2612: severally)
! 2613:
! 2614: - More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
! 2615:
! 2616: - More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
! 2617:
! 2618: - Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
! 2619:
! 2620: - Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
! 2621:
! 2622: - The generator is now better about not modifying the file list
! 2623: during the transfer in order to avoid a copy-on-write memory
! 2624: bifurcation (on systems where fork() uses shared memory).
! 2625: Previously, rsync's shared memory would slowly become unshared,
! 2626: resulting in real memory usage nearly doubling on the receiving
! 2627: side by the end of the transfer. Now, as long as permissions
! 2628: are being preserved, the shared memory should remain that way
! 2629: for the entire transfer.
! 2630:
! 2631: - Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation
! 2632: pools. This reduces memory use for large file-sets and permits
! 2633: freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2634:
! 2635: - The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
! 2636: (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and
! 2637: the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the
! 2638: "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from
! 2639: the receiver don't get lost on their way through the generator
! 2640: over to the sender (which mainly affected hard-link messages and
! 2641: verbose --stats output).
! 2642:
! 2643: - Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and a
! 2644: little more optimized.
! 2645:
! 2646: - The device numbers sent when using --devices are now sent as
! 2647: separate major/minor values with 32-bit accuracy (protocol 28).
! 2648: Previously, the copied devices were sent as a single 32-bit
! 2649: number. This will make inter-operation of 64-bit binaries more
! 2650: compatible with their 32-bit brethren (with both ends of the
! 2651: connection are using protocol 28). Note that optimizations in the
! 2652: binary protocol for sending the device numbers often results in
! 2653: fewer bytes being used than before, even though more precision is
! 2654: now available.
! 2655:
! 2656: - Some cleanup of the exclude/include structures and its code made
! 2657: things clearer (internally), simpler, and more efficient.
! 2658:
! 2659: - The reading & writing of the file-list in batch-mode is now
! 2660: handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over the
! 2661: wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. (Note that the
! 2662: batch code is still considered to be experimental.)
! 2663:
! 2664: BUILD CHANGES:
! 2665:
! 2666: - The configure script now accepts --with-rsyncd-conf=PATH to
! 2667: override the default value of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
! 2668:
! 2669: - Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
! 2670:
! 2671: - Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
! 2672: sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
! 2673:
! 2674: DEVELOPER RELATED:
! 2675:
! 2676: - Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
! 2677:
! 2678: - Added a couple extra diffs in the "patches" dir, removed the ones
! 2679: that got applied, and rebuilt the rest.
! 2680:
! 2681:
! 2682: NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
! 2683: Protocol: 27 (changed)
! 2684: Changes since 2.5.7:
! 2685:
! 2686: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2687:
! 2688: * "ssh" is now the default remote shell for rsync. If you want to
! 2689: change this, configure like this: "./configure --with-rsh=rsh".
! 2690:
! 2691: * Added --files-from, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --from0.
! 2692: Note that --from0 affects the line-ending character for all the
! 2693: files read by the --*-from options. (Wayne Davison)
! 2694:
! 2695: * Length of csum2 is now per-file starting with protocol version
! 2696: 27. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2697:
! 2698: * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The
! 2699: per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm
! 2700: provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync
! 2701: algorithm corrupting data and falling back using the whole md4
! 2702: checksums. (J.W. Schultz, Donovan Baarda)
! 2703:
! 2704: * The --stats option no longer includes the (debug) malloc summary
! 2705: unless the verbose option was specified at least twice.
! 2706:
! 2707: * Added a new error/warning code for when files vanish from the
! 2708: sending side. Made vanished source files not interfere with the
! 2709: file-deletion pass when --delete-after was specified.
! 2710:
! 2711: * Various trailing-info sections are now preceded by a newline.
! 2712:
! 2713: BUG FIXES:
! 2714:
! 2715: * Fixed several exclude/include matching bugs when using wild-cards.
! 2716: This has a several user-visible effects, all of which make the
! 2717: matching more consistent and intuitive. This should hopefully not
! 2718: cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
! 2719: what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
! 2720:
! 2721: - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
! 2722: For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
! 2723: [If your string has BOTH "*" and "**" wildcards, changing the
! 2724: "*" wildcards to "**" will provide the old behavior in all
! 2725: versions.]
! 2726:
! 2727: - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (like /foo
! 2728: does). [Use "/**/foo" to get the old behavior in all versions.]
! 2729:
! 2730: - A non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
! 2731: the transfer. E.g. "CVS/R*" matches at the end of the path,
! 2732: just like the non-wildcard term "CVS/Root" does. [Use "/CVS/R*"
! 2733: to get the old behavior in all versions.]
! 2734:
! 2735: - Including a "**" in the match term causes it to be matched
! 2736: against the entire path, not just the name portion, even if
! 2737: there aren't any interior slashes in the term. E.g. "foo**bar"
! 2738: would exclude "/path/foo-bar" (just like before) as well as
! 2739: "/foo-path/baz-bar" (unlike before). [Use "foo*bar" to get the
! 2740: old behavior in all versions.]
! 2741:
! 2742: * The exclude list specified in the daemon's config file is now
! 2743: properly applied to the pulled items no matter how deep the
! 2744: user's file-args are in the source tree. (Wayne Davison)
! 2745:
! 2746: * For protocol version >= 27, mdfour_tail() is called when the
! 2747: block size (including checksum_seed) is a multiple of 64.
! 2748: Previously it was not called, giving the wrong MD4 checksum.
! 2749: (Craig Barratt)
! 2750:
! 2751: * For protocol version >= 27, a 64 bit bit counter is used in
! 2752: mdfour.c as required by the RFC. Previously only a 32 bit bit
! 2753: counter was used, causing incorrect MD4 file checksums for
! 2754: file sizes >= 512MB - 4. (Craig Barratt)
! 2755:
! 2756: * Fixed a crash bug when interacting with older rsync versions and
! 2757: multiple files of the same name are destined for the same dir.
! 2758: (Wayne Davison)
! 2759:
! 2760: * Keep tmp names from overflowing MAXPATHLEN.
! 2761:
! 2762: * Make --link-dest honor the absence of -p, -o, and -g.
! 2763:
! 2764: * Made rsync treat a trailing slash in the destination in a more
! 2765: consistent manner.
! 2766:
! 2767: * Fixed file I/O error detection. (John Van Essen)
! 2768:
! 2769: * Fixed bogus "malformed address {hostname}" message in rsyncd log
! 2770: when checking IP address against hostnames from "hosts allow"
! 2771: and "hosts deny" parameters in config file.
! 2772:
! 2773: * Print heap statistics when verbose >= 2 instead of when >= 1.
! 2774:
! 2775: * Fixed a compression (-z) bug when syncing a mostly-matching file
! 2776: that contains already-compressed data. (Yasuoka Masahiko and
! 2777: Wayne Davison)
! 2778:
! 2779: * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
! 2780: to not get backed up.
! 2781:
! 2782: * When the backup code makes new directories, create them with mode
! 2783: 0700 instead of 0755 (since the directory permissions in the
! 2784: backup tree are not yet copied from the main tree).
! 2785:
! 2786: * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
! 2787:
! 2788: * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
! 2789: what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
! 2790:
! 2791: * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
! 2792: using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
! 2793:
! 2794: * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
! 2795: special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
! 2796: --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
! 2797: same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
! 2798: regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2799:
! 2800: * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
! 2801: readdir fail caused by network filesystem issues and truncated
! 2802: files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
! 2803:
! 2804: * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
! 2805: if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
! 2806:
! 2807: INTERNAL:
! 2808:
! 2809: * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
! 2810: supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2811:
! 2812: * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
! 2813:
! 2814: * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
! 2815: defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
! 2816:
! 2817: * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
! 2818: lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
! 2819: Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
! 2820: we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
! 2821: (Wayne Davison)
! 2822:
! 2823:
! 2824: NEWS for rsync 2.5.7 (4 Dec 2003)
! 2825: Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
! 2826: Changes since 2.5.6:
! 2827:
! 2828: SECURITY FIXES:
! 2829:
! 2830: * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
! 2831: Russell, Andrea Barisani)
! 2832:
! 2833:
! 2834: NEWS for rsync 2.5.6, aka "the dwd-between-jobs release" (26 Jan 2003)
! 2835: Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
! 2836: Changes since 2.5.5:
! 2837:
! 2838: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2839:
! 2840: * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
! 2841:
! 2842: * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
! 2843: Zimmerman)
! 2844:
! 2845: * Combining "::" syntax with the --rsh/-e option now uses the
! 2846: specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
! 2847: server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
! 2848: as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
! 2849:
! 2850: * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
! 2851: destination field.
! 2852:
! 2853: * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
! 2854: rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2855:
! 2856: * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
! 2857: unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
! 2858: (J.W. Schultz)
! 2859:
! 2860: * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
! 2861: rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
! 2862:
! 2863: * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
! 2864: Middleton)
! 2865:
! 2866: * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
! 2867: and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
! 2868:
! 2869: * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
! 2870: terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
! 2871:
! 2872: * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
! 2873: (Dave Dykstra)
! 2874:
! 2875: BUG FIXES:
! 2876:
! 2877: * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
! 2878: L. Allen, Martin Pool)
! 2879:
! 2880: * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
! 2881: in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
! 2882: timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
! 2883:
! 2884: * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
! 2885:
! 2886: * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
! 2887:
! 2888: * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
! 2889: contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
! 2890: list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
! 2891:
! 2892: * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
! 2893: dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
! 2894:
! 2895: * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
! 2896: processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
! 2897: an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
! 2898:
! 2899: * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
! 2900: broken. (Dave Dykstra)
! 2901:
! 2902: * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
! 2903: (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
! 2904:
! 2905: * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
! 2906: when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
! 2907:
! 2908: * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
! 2909:
! 2910: INTERNAL:
! 2911:
! 2912: * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
! 2913: Pool, Nelson Beebe)
! 2914:
! 2915: * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
! 2916:
! 2917: * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
! 2918:
! 2919: * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
! 2920:
! 2921: * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
! 2922: (Jos Backus)
! 2923:
! 2924: * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
! 2925: means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)
! 2926:
! 2927:
! 2928: NEWS for rsync 2.5.5, aka Snowy River (2 Apr 2002)
! 2929: Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
! 2930: Changes since 2.5.4:
! 2931:
! 2932: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2933:
! 2934: * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
! 2935: otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
! 2936:
! 2937: * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
! 2938: accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
! 2939: (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
! 2940:
! 2941: * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
! 2942: a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
! 2943: similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
! 2944: (Martin Pool)
! 2945:
! 2946:
! 2947: BUG FIXES:
! 2948:
! 2949: * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
! 2950: slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
! 2951: current user. Yes, really! (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
! 2952:
! 2953: * Fix test suite on Solaris. (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
! 2954:
! 2955: * Fix minor memory leak in socket code. (Dave Dykstra, Martin
! 2956: Pool.)
! 2957:
! 2958: * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
! 2959: for remote connections. (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
! 2960:
! 2961: * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
! 2962: trailing slashes.
! 2963: <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
! 2964: (Martin Pool)
! 2965:
! 2966: * Improved network error handling. (Greg A. Woods)
! 2967:
! 2968:
! 2969: NEWS for rsync 2.5.4, aka "Imitation lizard skin" (13 Mar 2002)
! 2970: Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
! 2971: Changes since 2.5.3:
! 2972:
! 2973: BUG FIXES:
! 2974:
! 2975: * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug. (Martin Pool, Andrew
! 2976: Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
! 2977:
! 2978: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 2979:
! 2980: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4. (Jos Backus)
! 2981: (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
! 2982: not just link against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
! 2983:
! 2984: * Additional test cases for --compress. (Martin Pool)
! 2985:
! 2986:
! 2987: NEWS for rsync 2.5.3, aka "Happy 26" (11 Mar 2002)
! 2988: Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
! 2989: Changes since 2.5.2:
! 2990:
! 2991: SECURITY FIXES:
! 2992:
! 2993: * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
! 2994: process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
! 2995: #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
! 2996:
! 2997: BUG FIXES:
! 2998:
! 2999: * Fix zlib double-free bug. (Owen Taylor, Mark J Cox) (CVE
! 3000: CAN-2002-0059)
! 3001:
! 3002: * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message
! 3003: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
! 3004: and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
! 3005:
! 3006: * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
! 3007: "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
! 3008:
! 3009: * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
! 3010: on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
! 3011:
! 3012: * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
! 3013: unexpectedly disconnects. (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
! 3014:
! 3015: * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
! 3016: slash.
! 3017:
! 3018: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 3019:
! 3020: * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.2 to zlib 1.1.3. (Note that
! 3021: rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can not just link
! 3022: against a system library. See zlib/README.rsync)
! 3023:
! 3024: * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
! 3025: than -v as in 2.5.2. Output from plain -v is more similar to
! 3026: what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
! 3027: to parse the output.
! 3028:
! 3029: * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
! 3030:
! 3031: * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
! 3032: and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
! 3033:
! 3034: * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
! 3035: print an error message. (Colin Walters)
! 3036:
! 3037:
! 3038: NEWS for rsync 2.5.2 (26 Jan 2002)
! 3039: Protocol: 26 (changed)
! 3040: Changes since 2.5.1:
! 3041:
! 3042: SECURITY FIXES:
! 3043:
! 3044: * Signedness security patch from Sebastian Krahmer
! 3045: <krahmer@suse.de> -- in some cases we were not sufficiently
! 3046: careful about reading integers from the network.
! 3047:
! 3048: BUG FIXES:
! 3049:
! 3050: * Fix possible string mangling in log files.
! 3051:
! 3052: * Fix for setting local address of outgoing sockets.
! 3053:
! 3054: * Better handling of hardlinks and devices on platforms with
! 3055: 64-bit dev_t or ino_t.
! 3056:
! 3057: * Name resolution on machines supporting IPv6 is improved.
! 3058:
! 3059: * Fix for device nodes. (dann frazier) (Debian #129135)
! 3060:
! 3061: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 3062:
! 3063: * With -v, rsync now shows the command used to initiate an ssh/rsh
! 3064: connection.
! 3065:
! 3066: * --statistics now shows memory heap usage on platforms that
! 3067: support mallinfo().
! 3068:
! 3069: * "The Ted T'so school of program optimization": make progress
! 3070: visible and people will think it's faster. (With --progress,
! 3071: rsync will show you how many files it has seen as it builds the
! 3072: file_list, giving some indication that it has not hung.)
! 3073:
! 3074: * Improvements to batch mode support. This is still experimental
! 3075: but testing would be welcome. (Jos Backus)
! 3076:
! 3077: * New --ignore-existing option, patch previously distributed with
! 3078: Vipul's Razor. (Debian #124286)
! 3079:
! 3080:
! 3081: NEWS for rsync 2.5.1 (3 Jan 2002)
! 3082: Protocol: 25 (unchanged)
! 3083: Changes since 2.5.0:
! 3084:
! 3085: BUG FIXES:
! 3086:
! 3087: * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul
! 3088: Mackerras)
! 3089:
! 3090: * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv4 and 6.
! 3091: (YOSHIFUJI Hideaki, SUMIKAWA Munechika and Jun-ichiro "itojun"
! 3092: Hagino)
! 3093:
! 3094: * Various fixes for IPv6 support. (Dave Dykstra)
! 3095:
! 3096: * rsync.1 typo fix. (Matt Kraai)
! 3097:
! 3098: * Test suite typo fixes. (Tom Schmidt)
! 3099:
! 3100: * rsync.1 grammar and clarity improvements. (Edward
! 3101: Welbourne)
! 3102:
! 3103: * Correction to ./configure tests for inet_ntop. (Jeff Garzik)
! 3104:
! 3105: ENHANCEMENTS:
! 3106:
! 3107: * --progress and -P now show estimated data transfer rate (in a
! 3108: multiple of bytes/s) and estimated time to completion. (Rik
! 3109: Faith)
! 3110:
! 3111: * --no-detach option, required to run as a W32 service and also
! 3112: useful when running on Unix under daemontools, AIX's SRC, or a
! 3113: debugger. (Max Bowsher, Jos Backus)
! 3114:
! 3115: * Clearer error messages for some conditions.
! 3116:
! 3117:
! 3118: NEWS for rsync 2.5.0 (30 Nov 2001)
! 3119: Protocol: 25 (changed)
! 3120: Changes since 2.4.6:
! 3121:
! 3122: ANNOUNCEMENTS
! 3123:
! 3124: * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
! 3125:
! 3126: NEW FEATURES
! 3127:
! 3128: * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
! 3129:
! 3130: * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
! 3131:
! 3132: * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
! 3133: sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
! 3134: Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
! 3135:
! 3136: * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
! 3137: including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also
! 3138: includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
! 3139: Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
! 3140: portability project, and OpenBSD.
! 3141:
! 3142: ENHANCEMENTS
! 3143:
! 3144: * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
! 3145: included or excluded and why.
! 3146:
! 3147: * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
! 3148: details.
! 3149:
! 3150: * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
! 3151:
! 3152: * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
! 3153: file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
! 3154: open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log
! 3155: file to get cleaned out by another process.
! 3156:
! 3157: * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
! 3158: options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
! 3159: consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not
! 3160: installed on the platform.
! 3161:
! 3162: * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
! 3163: files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
! 3164:
! 3165: * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
! 3166:
! 3167: * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp,
! 3168: explain that we do it in a secure way.
! 3169:
! 3170: * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
! 3171: local machine.
! 3172:
! 3173: BUG FIXES:
! 3174:
! 3175: * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
! 3176:
! 3177: * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
! 3178:
! 3179: * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
! 3180:
! 3181: * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
! 3182: to transfer fail to transfer.
! 3183:
! 3184: * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
! 3185: overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
! 3186: ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
! 3187:
! 3188: PLATFORMS:
! 3189:
! 3190: * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
! 3191:
! 3192: * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
! 3193: scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync.
! 3194:
! 3195: * Platforms thought to work in this release:
! 3196:
! 3197: Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
! 3198: Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
! 3199: Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
! 3200: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
! 3201: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
! 3202: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
! 3203: HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
! 3204: HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
! 3205: IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
! 3206: IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
! 3207: Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
! 3208: NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
! 3209: NetBSD Current i386 cc
! 3210: OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
! 3211: OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
! 3212: OpenBSD Current i386 cc
! 3213: RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
! 3214: RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
! 3215: RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
! 3216: RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
! 3217: Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
! 3218: Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
! 3219: Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
! 3220: Solaris 8 i386 gcc
! 3221: SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
! 3222: SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
! 3223: i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc
! 3224: i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc
! 3225: powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc
! 3226: i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc
! 3227: i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc
! 3228:
! 3229: TESTING:
! 3230:
! 3231: * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
! 3232: test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
! 3233: build farm.
! 3234:
! 3235:
! 3236: Partial Protocol History
! 3237: RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
! 3238: 23 Sep 2011 3.0.9 30
! 3239: 26 Mar 2011 3.0.8 30
! 3240: 31 Dec 2009 3.0.7 30
! 3241: 08 May 2009 3.0.6 30
! 3242: 28 Dec 2008 3.0.5 30
! 3243: 06 Sep 2008 3.0.4 30
! 3244: 29 Jun 2008 3.0.3 30
! 3245: 08 Apr 2008 3.0.2 30
! 3246: 03 Apr 2008 3.0.1 30
! 3247: 01 Mar 2008 3.0.0 11 Nov 2006 30
! 3248: 06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29
! 3249: 22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29
! 3250: 11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29
! 3251: 28 Jul 2005 2.6.6 29
! 3252: 01 Jun 2005 2.6.5 29
! 3253: 30 Mar 2005 2.6.4 17 Jan 2005 29
! 3254: 30 Sep 2004 2.6.3 28
! 3255: 30 Apr 2004 2.6.2 28
! 3256: 26 Apr 2004 2.6.1 08 Jan 2004 28
! 3257: 01 Jan 2004 2.6.0 10 Apr 2003 27 (MAX=40)
! 3258: 04 Dec 2003 2.5.7 26
! 3259: 26 Jan 2003 2.5.6 26
! 3260: 02 Apr 2002 2.5.5 26
! 3261: 13 Mar 2002 2.5.4 26
! 3262: 11 Mar 2002 2.5.3 26
! 3263: 26 Jan 2002 2.5.2 11 Jan 2002 26
! 3264: 03 Jan 2002 2.5.1 25
! 3265: 30 Nov 2001 2.5.0 23 Aug 2001 25
! 3266: 06 Sep 2000 2.4.6 24
! 3267: 19 Aug 2000 2.4.5 24
! 3268: 29 Jul 2000 2.4.4 24
! 3269: 09 Apr 2000 2.4.3 24
! 3270: 30 Mar 2000 2.4.2 24
! 3271: 30 Jan 2000 2.4.1 29 Jan 2000 24
! 3272: 29 Jan 2000 2.4.0 28 Jan 2000 23
! 3273: 25 Jan 2000 2.3.3 23 Jan 2000 22
! 3274: 08 Nov 1999 2.3.2 26 Jun 1999 21
! 3275: 06 Apr 1999 2.3.1 20
! 3276: 15 Mar 1999 2.3.0 15 Mar 1999 20
! 3277: 25 Nov 1998 2.2.1 19
! 3278: 03 Nov 1998 2.2.0 19
! 3279: 09 Sep 1998 2.1.1 19
! 3280: 20 Jul 1998 2.1.0 19
! 3281: 17 Jul 1998 2.0.19 19
! 3282: 18 Jun 1998 2.0.17 19
! 3283: 01 Jun 1998 2.0.16 19
! 3284: 27 May 1998 2.0.13 27 May 1998 19
! 3285: 26 May 1998 2.0.12 18
! 3286: 22 May 1998 2.0.11 18
! 3287: 18 May 1998 2.0.9 18 May 1998 18
! 3288: 17 May 1998 2.0.8 17
! 3289: 15 May 1998 2.0.1 17
! 3290: 14 May 1998 2.0.0 17
! 3291: 17 Apr 1998 1.7.4 17
! 3292: 13 Apr 1998 1.7.3 17
! 3293: 05 Apr 1998 1.7.2 17
! 3294: 26 Mar 1998 1.7.1 17
! 3295: 26 Mar 1998 1.7.0 26 Mar 1998 17 (MAX=30)
! 3296: 13 Jan 1998 1.6.9 13 Jan 1998 15 (MAX=20)
! 3297:
! 3298: * DATE OF COMMIT is the date the protocol change was committed to CVS.
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