NEWS for rsync 3.0.5 (28 Dec 2008) Protocol: 30 (unchanged) Changes since 3.0.4: BUG FIXES: - Initialize xattr data in a couple spots in the hlink code, which avoids a crash when the xattr pointer's memory happens to start out non-zero. Also fixed the itemizing of an alt-dest file's xattrs when hard-linking. - Don't send a bogus "-" option to an older server if there were no short options specified. - Fixed skipping of unneeded updates in a batch file when incremental recursion is active. Added a test for this. Made batch-mode handle "redo" files properly (and without hanging). - Fix the %P logfile escape when the daemon logs from inside a chroot. - Fixed the use of -s (--protect-args) when used with a remote source or destination that had an empty path (e.g. "host:"). Also fixed a problem when -s was used when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. - Fixed the use of a dot-dir path (e.g. foo/./bar) inside a --files-from file when the root of the transfer isn't the current directory. - Fixed a bug with "-K --delete" removing symlinks to directories when incremental recursion is active. - Fixed a hard to trigger hang when using --remove-source-files. - Got rid of an annoying delay when accessing a daemon via a remote-shell. - Properly ignore (superfluous) source args on a --read-batch command. - Improved the manpage's description of the '*' wildcard to remove the confusing "non-empty" qualifier. - Fixed reverse lookups in the compatibility-library version of getnameinfo(). - Fixed a bug when using --sparse on a sparse file that has over 2GB of consecutive sparse data. - Avoid a hang when using at least 3 --verbose options on a transfer with a client sender (which includes local copying). - Fixed a problem with --delete-delay reporting an error when it was ready to remove a directory that was now gone. - Got rid of a bunch of "warn_unused_result" compiler warnings. - If an ftruncate() on a received file fails, it now causes a partial- transfer warning. - Allow a path with a leading "//" to be preserved (CYGWIN only). ENHANCEMENTS: - Made the support/atomic-rsync script able to perform a fully atomic update of the copied hierarchy when the destination is setup using a particular symlink idiom.