rsync announce - Sep 2011 - Rsync 3.0.9pre2 released

Rsync version 3.0.9pre2 is now available for release testing.  This is
a bug-fix release.

Please test this new release and send email to the rsync mailing list
with any questions, comments, or bug reports.

To see a full summary of the changes since 3.0.8, visit this link:

  http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2-NEWS

The changes since 3.0.9pre1 are:

 - Fix a hang if a hard-linked file cannot be opened by the sender (e.g.
   if it has no read permission).

 - Fix the directory permissions on an implied dot-dir when using
   --relative (e.g. /outside/path/././send/path).

 - Fixed some too-long sleeping instances when using --bwlimit.

 - Fixed when symlink ownership difference-checking gets compiled into
   unchanged_attrs().

 - Improved the socket-error reporting when multiple protocols fail.

 - Fixed a case where a socket error could reference just-freed memory.

 - Failing to use a password file that was specified on the command-line
   is now a fatal error.

 - Fix the non-root updating of directories that don't have the read
   and/or execute permission.

 - Fix a compilation issue on older C compilers (due to a misplaced var
   declaration).

 - Make configure avoid finding socketpair on cygwin.

 - Avoid trying to reference SO_BROADCAST if the OS doesn't support it.

 - Fixed the user home-dir handling in the support/lsh script.

 - Some minor manpage improvements.

You can download the source tar file and its signature from here:

  http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz
  http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz.asc

The patches directory is now in a separate tar file (for those that want
one or more of the patches):

  http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz
 
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.9pre2.tar.gz.asc

See the rsync website for other download methods, including diffs, etc.:

  http://rsync.samba.org/

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On Sat 10 Sep 2011, Wayne Davison wrote:
> Rsync version 3.0.9pre2 is now available for release testing.  This is
> a bug-fix release.
I've uploaded rsync_3.0.9~pre2-1 to debian/experimental, for those who
want to give it a try.


Note the Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/640869 ;
quoting a bit:

----
 rsync --help says that:

(snip)
     --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer, not during
     --delete-during         receiver deletes during transfer (default)
(snip)


 But man rsync says:

(snip)
            --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer (default)
            --delete-during         receiver deletes during xfer, not before
----

It looks like the manpage needs updating here?


Additionally people keep getting confused about the fact that rsync
sorts its file list; perhaps that could be mentioned explicitly in the
manpage somewhere?  The latest issue was that it also sorts the command
line arguments when there are multiple source files explicitly listed,
see http://bugs.debian.org/640492

It would be nice to see these changes before 3.0.9 is released :-)


Paul