X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=947ba587eee5524f15e7f04ac4c0d818e1199db1;hp=aa6ae488882661dc8296d0b8d4f592d03830716a;hb=56f81b0dfa62bb5bf2c338733d9370a8b11bfc39;hpb=bf4beb6878cfcf692755807486f95e835f807b72 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aa6ae48..947ba58 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,90 @@ +------------------ +1.0.0 (2017-11-19) +------------------ +After almost ten years of development, dss has finally reached version +1.0.0. Many new features have been implemented for this release. The +list below contains the user-visible changes since the previous +0.1.7 release. For the complete changelog consult the git log. + +The biggest user-visible change is that the former modes of operation +have been replaced by subcommands. For example, the former -R option +to start dss in "run" mode corresponds to the "run" subcommand of +version 1.0.0. Each subcommand has its own set of options. Global +options and options for subcommands are split with the usual "--" +separator. For example, to specify the global --loglevel option and +the run-specific --daemon option, use dss --loglevel 2 -- run --daemon. + +Although the new version has different syntax rules, the on-disk +snapshot format remains the same. No conversion is required to continue +existing snapshot directories created with older dss versions. + +The 0.1.x series will still be maintained for a while as the "maint" +branch of the git repository, but this branch will only receive +bug fixes. + + - The gengetopt option parser has been replaced by the + [lopsub](http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/lopsub) library. Hence + lopsub must be installed to compile this package. help2man is + no longer required since lopsub has built-in roff support. + + - New subcommand "configtest" to check the command line options and + the configuration file for syntactic correctness. + + - New option: --mountpoint. If this option is given, dss aborts if + no file system is mounted on the destination directory. + + - New option --checksum to let rsync compute checksums occasionally. + + - The kill subcommand gained the new --wait option which instructs dss + to wait until the signalled process has terminated. + + - The --no-resume option has been removed. + + - On exit, the run subcommand now waits for any previously spawned + rsync or rm processes to terminate. + + - The ls subcommand now shows the age of incomplete snapshots rather + than 0:00. + + - In run mode, dss no longer exits successfully if another instance + is already running. + + - The command specified as the argument to --exit-hook is now subject + to word splitting. Previously, the string was executed as-is. + + - Improved error diagnostics for the kill subcommand. + + - For all subcommands other than "run", timestamps and function names + are omitted from the log output. + + - "make install" will install the executable and the man page. + + - CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS can now be used to override the flags + of the build system. + + - Source code files are now annotated with the SPDX GPL-2.0 license + identifier. + + - The dss logo is now created with ImageMagick rather than dia. + +------------------ +0.1.7 (2017-04-17) +------------------ + + - Documentation improvements. + + - Improved error diagnostics. + + - dss no longer refuses to run in daemon mode without a log file. + + - Minor tweaks to the snapshot pruning algorithm. + + - A fix for create mode when rsync exists unsuccessfully. + + - NEWS and README have been converted to markdown format. + + - We now compile with -Wunused-parameter and -Wshadow. + ------------------ 0.1.6 (2015-08-05) ------------------