X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c1bfc72244341fd92ccf424b6491bba4f2180ddb;hp=6b9deec56c582937b0b7aaee468b1eade7258d15;hb=fafaa26953e4f452c6b91de4e24ec5ad2a8f6700;hpb=69add8d2b5d6c8f402e9f94d47df732479535f2d diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6b9deec..c1bfc72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,45 @@ +------------------ +0.1.6 (2015-08-05) +------------------ + + - New option --min-complete to specify the minimal number of snapshots + to keep. + + - Improved handling of rsync errors. The new --max-rsync-errors option + tells dss to terminate after the given number of rsync failures. + + - New home page URL and email address. + + - Reworked rsync restart logic, new --max-rsync-errors option. + + - Avoidance of "Errors with program diagnostics" error from rsync. + + - Improved signal handling. + +------------------ +0.1.5 (2014-01-14) +------------------ + + - snapshot recycling: outdated, redundant and orphaned snapshots are + reused as the basis for new snapshots. + + - New subcommands: --kill, --reload. + + - The semaphore-based locking system prevents to start multiple + instances of dss. + + - When dss receives SIGHUP it now writes the internal state and the + configuration to the log file + + - First steps to make the source code ANSI C conform (thanks to + Daniel Richard G). + + - dss writes log messages to stderr rather than to the logfile unless + running in daemon mode. + + - Default hooks work also on systems where "/bin/true" does not exist, + e.g. Mac OS. + 0.1.4 (2010-11-08) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This version of dss contains some new features, many improvements of @@ -26,7 +68,7 @@ snapshot in the post_create_hook. 0.1.1 (2008-11-13) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release prevents busy loops on rsync exit code 13. It ignores -any snapshot directory with creation time > completion time. It +any snapshot directory with creation time >= completion time. It opens /dev/null for reading and writing when executing rsync. It shows human readable snapshot creation duration when listing snapshots. It restarts the rsync process if it returned with exit code 13.