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NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.2:
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
multiple source directories were specified.
- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
- Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
- If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
- Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
(rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
- Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
- Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
phase.
- When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
- When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
"vanished".
- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
the message).
- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
batch-processing options.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
as matching a normal directory from the sender.
- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
and documented all these options in the man page.
- Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
values.
- The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
INTERNAL:
- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
and made the code easier to maintain.
- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
BUILD CHANGES:
- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be
updated).
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
- Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
ones were removed.