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NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.8:
Changes since 2.6.9:
BUG FIXES:
- If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
--copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
(since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
- Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
receiving files.)
- Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
- Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
- Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
- If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
- The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
over and over again).
- Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
to successfully update a destination file.
- Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
done for global include/excludes).
- Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
will not update a file that has no write permissions).
- If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
- Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
- Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
overly long.
- When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
- ...
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
settings when starting a daemon.
- The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
- Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
the daemon's config file.
- Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
(The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
still behaves in the same way as before.)
- Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
- Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
- ...
INTERNAL:
- Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
that conditionally compiles the code.
- Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
- Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
- The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
define it.
- Upgraded the popt version to 1.10.2 and improved its use of string-
handling functions.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X compatibility code
that allows Macs and non-macs to exchange extended attributes.
- A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
without actually running as root. It does this using a special
extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
acls.diff).
- The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
- Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
- Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
consistent opening comments.
- ...
OLDNEWS
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NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (6 Nov 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.8:
BUG FIXES:
- If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will
once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
- Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
--copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references
(since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code
incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
- Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
receiving files.)
- Fixed a bug when --inplace was combined with a --*-dest option and we
update a file's data using an alternate basis file. The code now
notices that it needs to copy the matching data from the basis file
instead of (wrongly) assuming that it was already present in the file.
- Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path
relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option
gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right.
- Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the
destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell
when a user specifies a subdir inside a module).
- If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip
trying to update everything that is inside that directory.
- If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file.
- The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
over and over again).
- Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
to successfully update a destination file.
- Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
done for global include/excludes).
- Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
the filesystem with --relative enabled.
- When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a
problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
will not update a file that has no write permissions).
- If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
- Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created
directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them.
- Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
overly long.
- When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These
can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
settings when starting a daemon.
- The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an
alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
- Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
the daemon's config file.
- Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all
non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
(The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
still behaves in the same way as before.)
- Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.)
- Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in
both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
INTERNAL:
- Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
that conditionally compiles the code.
- Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
- Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that
any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
- The macro WIFEXITED(stat) will now be defined if the OS didn't already
define it.
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
The xattrs patch also has some preliminary Mac OS X and FreeBSD
compatibility code that various system types to exchange extended
file-attributes.
- A new diff in the patches dir, fake-root.diff, allows rsync to
maintain a backup hierarchy with full owner, group, and device info
without actually running as root. It does this using a special
extended attribute, so it depends on xattrs.diff (which depends on
acls.diff).
- The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work
better with the latest yodl 2.x releases.
- Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-07-02 versions.
- Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
consistent opening comments.
NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.7:
......@@ -2082,6 +2243,7 @@ Changes since 2.4.6:
Partial Protocol History
RELEASE DATE VER. DATE OF COMMIT* PROTOCOL
?? ??? 2007 3.0.0 ?? ??? ???? 30
06 Nov 2006 2.6.9 29
22 Apr 2006 2.6.8 29
11 Mar 2006 2.6.7 29
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