being too big and skip it.
- For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
- xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The uncopied
+ xattr information for files that aren't being copied. (The un-copied
files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
data that is not going to be used.) This ensures that if the user uses
--no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
- If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).
+ - If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
+ lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
+ system where the newer function is not around. This helps to make the
+ rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.
+
- Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
compatibility flags that the transfer was using. This fixes a potential
protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
- If we fail to connect to an rsync daemon, report all the connection
errors (e.g. IPv4 & IPv6), not just the last one.
+ - Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.
+
- Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
- Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
file.
+ - The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
+ attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.
+
- Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.
- Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
user writable.
+ - Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
+ into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).
+
- If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
the middle of adjacent high-bit characters. This prevents a potential
filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an