1 NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (UNRELEASED)
2 Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
7 - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to
8 allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX).
10 - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number
11 of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD).
13 - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This
14 particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot
15 be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if
16 the --remove-source-files was also specified.
18 - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the
19 destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that
20 a non-root copy can't affect.
22 - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in
23 incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled.
25 - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead
26 of leaving it in the wrong character-set (requires 3.0.4 on both sides
29 - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side,
30 this no longer makes deletions in the root-dir of the transfer fail
31 silently (the user should see the warning about deletions being disabled
32 due to IO error when --ignore-errors was not specified).
34 - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename,
35 it now outputs the name back to the client without mangling the charset.
37 - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating
38 the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings.
40 - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr.
44 - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol
45 is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the
46 user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive
47 server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server.
49 - Improved the message output for an RERR_PARTIAL exit.
53 - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile
54 or the configure files, only for actual changes in content.
56 - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release.