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Changelog History
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v1.3 Changes
May 22, 2019๐ Basically the same as beta2, with minor fixes among:
- โฌ๏ธ Config file upgrade script fixes
- ๐ Fixes for running with Win10 1809 bash (breaks 1607 beta version, yeah... Nothing I can do about that)
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v1.3-RC1 Changes
June 29, 2020- ๐ New option to use SSH_CONTROLMASTER in order to speed up remote sync tasks and preserve a single ssh channel
- New option SSH_OPTIONAL_ARGS
- ๐ Fixed a problem with macos mv not preserving ownership of files from /tmp
- ๐ Fixed very long outstanding issue with special characters in remote target handling
- Fixed an issue where STOP_ON_ERROR_CMD did not work anymore
- ๐ Fixed a remote file lock problem (thanks to https://github.com/zhangzhishan)
- ๐ Fixed various cosmetic issues with code and logs
- โฌ๏ธ Improved upgrade script
- ๐ Fixed a possible bash buffer overflow when synchronizing large filesets (tested with 2M files)
- This fix actually truncats every string sent to Logger not being more than 16KB
- 0๏ธโฃ Fixed osync leaving temporary log files behind in RUN_DIR (/tmp by default)
- โก๏ธ Updated target helper service configuration file
- Improved codacy results
- Added more debugging
- ๐ Fixed service logs being junked by spinner
- ๐ Fixed MINIMUM_SPACE=0 didn't stop the disk space check anymore (Thanks to Val)
- ๐ Fixed conflict file logs to be less verbose when no conflicts happen
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v1.3-beta3 Changes
May 22, 2019๐ Basically the same as beta2, with minor fixes among:
- โฌ๏ธ Config file upgrade script fixes
- ๐ Fixes for running with Win10 1809 bash (breaks 1607 beta version, yeah... Nothing I can do about that)
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v1.3-beta2 Changes
May 20, 2019- More --summary statistics
- Config file syntax now uses booleans instead of yes / no (but still accepts old syntax)
- Added boolean update in upgrade script
- Config file revision check
- Added config file revision in upgrade script
- ๐ New option --sync-type=initator2target|target2initiator that allows using osync as rsync wrapper for unidirectional sync
- New osync target helper service
- ๐ Fixed multiple race conditions in parallel executions (which also fixes random conflict logs failures)
- ๐ Fixed directory softdeletion bug
- ๐ Fixed multiple failed deletions will be retried as many times as failures happened
- ๐ Fixed remote running on FreeBSD for some commands, thanks to Vladimirek
- ๐ Fixed (again) deletion propagation when file contains spaces (thanks to http://github.com/weinhold)
- ๐ Deprecated --log-conflicts for 1.3 branch (is now experimental)
- โก๏ธ Updated ofunctions
- Has better random number generator
- IsInteger, IsNumeric and IsNumericExpand are now busybox compatible
- ๐ Multiple installer fixes
- ๐ Multiple batch fixes
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v1.3-beta1 Changes
August 08, 2018- ๐ฒ Added an option to log conflictual files
- Presence of conflictual files can trigger a special mail
- ๐ New option --initialize (see #141)
- ๐ Added OpenRC support (thanks to kozross, see #140)
- Added --no-resume option in order to disable resuming execution on failure
- ๐ Added basic performance profiler to debug version
- ๐ Fixed summary for file deletions
- ๐ Fixed an issue with filenames ending with spaces, their deletion not being propagated, and ACL / conflicts not being managed (still they got synced)
- ๐ Fixed missing options passed to subprocess in daemon mode
- ๐ Fixed bogus pgrep can lead to segfault 11 because of recursive KillChilds
- ๐ Fixed osync deletion not working on systems with ssh banner enabled
- Improved GetLocalOS and GetRemoteOS OS detection
- ๐ Fixed GetRemoteOS missing GetConfFileValue preventing to get OS details from /etc/os-release
- ๐ Fixed low severity security issue where log and run files could be read by other users
- ๐ Merged Logger and QuickLogger for simplified usage
- ๐ Fixed inotifyway error in FreeBSD (see #119)
- Minor enhancements in installer / ofunctions
- Added --prefix option for installer
- Installer path fixes
- Fixed logging bug with QuickLogger
- ๐จ Refactored time control and parallel execution functions into one single function
- Multiple portability improvements
- UrlEncode function is now Busybox compatible
- IsInteger function is now Busybox compatible
- Prevented non unique runtime filenames on some systems where no milliseconds exist
- Fixed bogus runtime filenames on Busybox
- โฌ๏ธ Upgraded shunit2 test framework to v2.1.8pre (git commit 07bb329)
- ๐ Multiple smaller fixes and improvements
- ๐ฒ Added an option to log conflictual files
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v1.2 Changes
March 25, 2017๐ After ten month of developpment, I'm proud to announce the release of osync v1.2 "beyond"
โ Big thanks to all contributors and testers for their involvement and time.
๐ This release introduces some major new features, a lot of fixes and minor tweaks among:
Speed improvments
- Most of all initiator and target actions are now parallelized
- Remote calls have been refactored to reduce the amount of calls and time needed
- Various speed optimizations
- Sync resume process has been rewritten in order to exclude more unnecessary checks
- Faster remote OS detection
- Unlock functions are no longer launched if locking failed
๐ Core improvements & fixes
- More preflight checks before execution
- Refactored soft deletion handles errors better
- Support for various symlink options
- New output modes (ex: --summary, --errors-only, --no-prefix)
- Remote authentication now also accepts ssh password files
- Simplified batch runner
- Allow optional rsync arguments directly in config file
- Resumed executions won't send alert emails anymore because failed executions already do (unless too many resume tries)
- Prevented a rare collision issue when earlier runs had same PID as actual run in debug mode
- Fixed daemon mode didn't enforce exclusions
- Fixed directory ctime softdeletion (has also been backported to v1.1.5)
- Fixed remote commands could also be run on local runs which obviously fails
- Fixed proper symlink deletion routine
- By default rsync algorithm won't try to compress some specific already compressed file extensions anymore
- Added skip deletions option
- Added options to ignore permissions, ownership and groups
๐ Security improvements & fixes
- Brand new ssh filter improving remote connection security
- Improved privilege elevation on remote SUDO_EXEC runs
๐ Compatibility improvements & fixes
- Deeper unit and program testing
- Major code rework in order to make osync way more portable on different platforms
- Busybox / Android has finally been added to supported systems
- MacOSX has been added to supported systems
- FreeBSD 11 has been added to supported systems
- Windows 10 bash has been added to supported systems
- Toolchain is now compatible with more platforms
- Preserve ACLs and XATTR are ignored depending on OS support
- Added monitoring capability to FreeBSD and MacOS X
๐ Developpment specific improvements & fixes
- More paranoia mode checks
- Added include-like functionnality making easier dev versions using bootstrap.sh script
- Refactored most of fork controlling & process killing code
๐ Misc additions and fixes
- Better email support on various platforms
- Alert sending is now more readable and less noisy
- Added sendmail support
- Improved logging with UTF-8 filenames resulting in multibyte logged characters
- Improved installer script
- Fixed sync can hang when internet failure is detected
- Fixed installer statistics didn't report OS version
- Spinner is less prone to move on screen log output
- Improved upgrade script sanity
- Huge list of other improvements (see changelog file)
Distro specific improvements
- Added RPM file suitable for RHEL / CentOS / Fedora
- Added PKGBUILD file for ArchLinux
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v1.2.RC3 Changes
February 10, 2017๐ Yeah ! This pre-release is production ready
Quick fixes for new ssh_filter related installs (doesn't affect non ssh_filter users):
- Security fix for where log files would contain _REMOTE_TOKEN value if command fails
- Uninstall script now checks if other programs need ssh_filter.sh before removal
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v1.2.RC2 Changes
February 08, 2017๐ Next final release should only add updated documentation and RPM spec file.
๐ This new release candidate of next osync comes with the following improvements:
- ๐ Improved optional ssh filter for more security on remote connections
- ๐ Improved optional sudo privilege remote run
- ๐ Installer has new --remove option
๐ And fixes:
- โช Optional mail body encoding option to work around mail being sent without UTF-8 header
- ๐ Fixed escaped UTF-8 log lines because of LC_ALL=C in script
- ๐ Minor tweaks and fixes
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v1.2-RC1 Changes
December 13, 2016- ๐ Unit tests have run on CentOS 5,6 and 7, Debian 8, Linux Mint 18, FreeBSD 10.3/pfSense, FreeBSD 11, MacOSX Sierra, Win10 1607 (14393.479) bash, Cygwin x64 and MSYS2 current
- ๐ง Added optional rsync arguments configuration value
- ๐ Fixed another random error involving warns and errors triggered by earlier runs with same PID flag files
- Adde more preflight checks
- ๐ Fixed a random appearing issue with Sync being stopped on internet failure introduced in v1.2 rewrite
- โ Resuming operation will not send warnings anymore unless resumed too many timess
- ๐ Spinner is less prone to move logging on screen
- ๐ Fixed daemon mode didn't enforce exclusions
- Made a quick and dirty preprocessor
- ofunctions can now directly be loaded into osync via an include statement
- n_osync.sh can be assembled on the fly using bootstrap.sh
- 0๏ธโฃ Forced remote ssh to use bash (fixes FreeBSD 11 compatibility when default shell is csh)
- Faster execution
- Reduced number of needed sequential SSH connections for remote sync (4 connections less)
- Refactored CheckReplicaPath and CheckDiskSpace into one functon CheckReplicas
- Refactored CheckDiskSpace, CheckLocks and WriteLocks into one function HandleLocks
- Removed noclobber locking in favor of a more direct method
- ๐ฒ Improved remote logging
- ๐ Fixed directory ctime softdeletion
- ๐ Using mutt as mail program now supports multiple recipients
- ๐ osync now properly handles symlink deletions (previous bugfix didn't work properly)
- Simplified osync-batch runner (internally and for user)
- Better filename handling
- Easier to read log output
- Always passes --silent to osync
- All options that do not belong to osync-batch are automatically passed to osync
- Improved installer OS detection
- ๐ Added daemon capability on MacOS X
- โก๏ธ Fixed upgrade script cannot update header on BSD / MacOS X
- ๐ Fixed SendEmail function on MacOS X
- Fixed MAX_HARD_EXEC_TIME not enforced in sync function introduced with v1.2 rewrite
- Fixed MAX_SOFT_EXEC_TIME not enforced bug introduced with v1.2 rewrite
- PRESERVE_ACL and PRESERVE_XATTR are ignored when local or remote OS is MacOS or msys or Cygwin
- ๐ Fixed PRESERVE_EXECUTABILITY was ommited volontary on MacOS X because of rsync syntax
- โฑ Fixed failed deletion rescheduling under BSD bug introduced with v1.2 rewrite
- ๐ merge.sh is now BSD and Mac compatible
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More work on unit tests:
- Unit tests are now BSD / MacOSX / MSYS / Cygwin and Windows 10 bash compatible
- Added more ACL tests
- Added directory soft deletion tests
- Added symlink and broken symlink copy / deletion tests
- Made unit tests more robust when aborted
- Simplified unit tests needed config files (merged travis and local config files)
- Added timed execution tests
- More code compliance
- ๐ Lots of minor fixes
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v1.2-beta3 Changes
November 18, 2016- Improved locking / unlocking replicas
- Fixed killing local pid that has lock bug introduced in v1.2 rewrite
- Allow remote unlocking when INSTANCE_ID of lock matches local INSTANCE_ID
- ๐ Fixed failed deletions re-propagation bug introduced in v1.2 rewrite
- Faster remote OS detection
- New output switches, --no-prefix, --summary, --errors-only
- ๐ Added busybox (and Android Termux) support
- More portable file size functions
- More portable compression program commands
- More paranoia checks
- Added busybox sendmail support
- Added tls and ssl support for sendmail
- ๐ Added --skip-deletion support in config and quicksync modes
- Added possibility to skip deletion on initiator or target replica
- ๐ Prevent lock file racing condition (thanks to https://github.com/allter)
- ๐ Added ssh password file support
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Hugely improved unit tests
- Added conflict resolution tests
- Added softdeletion tests
- Added softdeletion cleanup tests
- Added lock tests
- Added skip-deletion tests
- Added configuration file tests
- Added upgrade script test
- Added basic daemon mode tests
- Simplified logger
- ๐ All fixes from v1.1.5
- Improved locking / unlocking replicas