rsync/NEWS

NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
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 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.

  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 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(), and adding a 0-value
      to an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined
      enum values.

    - 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 segments the exit code
      so that any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit
      processing.

  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 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.