Rclone v1.36 released

rclone 1.36 is now released!

Thank you to everyone who tested the betas and reported bugs.

Sorry this development cycle has been so long - changing the sync routines had a much bigger impact than expected.

Take note of the changes to the logging flags.

Happy rclone-ing!

– Nick

  • v1.36 - 2017-03-18
    • New Features
      • SFTP remote (Jack Schmidt)
      • Re-implement sync routine to work a directory at a time reducing memory usage
      • Logging revamped to be more inline with rsync - now much quieter
        • -v only shows transfers
        • -vv is for full debug
        • –syslog to log to syslog on capable platforms
      • Implement --backup-dir and --suffix
      • Implement --track-renames (initial implementation by Bjørn Erik Pedersen)
      • Add time-based bandwidth limits (Lukas Loesche)
      • rclone cryptcheck: checks integrity of crypt remotes
      • Allow all config file variables and options to be set from environment variables
      • Add --buffer-size parameter to control buffer size for copy
      • Make --delete-after the default
      • Add --ignore-checksum flag (fixed by Hisham Zarka)
      • rclone check: Add --download flag to check all the data, not just hashes
      • rclone cat: add --head, --tail, --offset, --count and --discard
      • rclone config: when choosing from a list, allow the value to be entered too
      • rclone config: allow rename and copy of remotes
      • rclone obscure: for generating encrypted passwords for rclone’s config (T.C. Ferguson)
      • Comply with XDG Base Directory specification (Dario Giovannetti)
        • this moves the default location of the config file in a backwards compatible way
      • Release changes
        • Ubuntu snap support (Dedsec1)
        • Compile with go 1.8
        • MIPS/Linux big and little endian support
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix copyto copying things to the wrong place if the destination dir didn’t exist
      • Fix parsing of remotes in moveto and copyto
      • Fix --delete-before deleting files on copy
      • Fix --files-from with an empty file copying everything
      • Fix sync: don’t update mod times if --dry-run set
      • Fix MimeType propagation
      • Fix filters to add ** rules to directory rules
    • Local
      • Implement -L, --copy-links flag to allow rclone to follow symlinks
      • Open files in write only mode so rclone can write to an rclone mount
      • Fix unnormalised unicode causing problems reading directories
      • Fix interaction between -x flag and --max-depth
    • Mount
      • Implement proper directory handling (mkdir, rmdir, renaming)
      • Make include and exclude filters apply to mount
      • Implement read and write async buffers - control with --buffer-size
      • Fix fsync on for directories
      • Fix retry on network failure when reading off crypt
    • Crypt
      • Add --crypt-show-mapping to show encrypted file mapping
      • Fix crypt writer getting stuck in a loop
        • IMPORTANT this bug had the potential to cause data corruption when
          • reading data from a network based remote and
          • writing to a crypt on Google Drive
        • Use the cryptcheck command to validate your data if you are concerned
        • If syncing two crypt remotes, sync the unencrypted remote
    • Amazon Drive
      • Fix panics on Move (rename)
      • Fix panic on token expiry
    • B2
      • Fix inconsistent listings and rclone check
      • Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
      • Constrain memory usage when doing multipart uploads
      • Fix upload url not being refreshed properly
    • Drive
      • Fix Rmdir on directories with trashed files
      • Fix “Ignoring unknown object” when downloading
      • Add --drive-list-chunk
      • Add --drive-skip-gdocs (Károly Oláh)
    • OneDrive
      • Implement Move
      • Fix Copy
        • Fix overwrite detection in Copy
        • Fix waitForJob to parse errors correctly
      • Use token renewer to stop auth errors on long uploads
      • Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
    • Google Cloud Storage
      • Fix depth 1 directory listings
    • Yandex
      • Fix single level directory listing
    • Dropbox
      • Normalise the case for single level directory listings
      • Fix depth 1 listing
    • S3
      • Added ca-central-1 region (Jon Yergatian)
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Oh my gosh there is a lot of work thats gone on there!

Thank you so much for your efforts!

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Wow this is awesome thank you so much!

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Thanks for all your work!

For those who use a Mac, does anyone perhaps know when/how this will be incorporated into a Homebrew package upgrade ?

Howard

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This is great. Thanks for all the hard work!

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Finally! Thanks for all the hard work put into this release :slight_smile:

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I don't have a mac but I'd be happy to receive a pull request for anything rclone needs to do. There is an issue about this with a link to some instructions.

https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/354

Thank @ncw & everyone else for the hard work! I couldn’t do without rclone. Keep up the great work.

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Update: The Homebrew rClone formula has been updated to v1.36.

Thanks to the Maintainers!

Howard

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continuely in awe of your work! really

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great stuff. really.

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Nick rocks. Period. Nice job sir.

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I’ve been using the new version and it is hugely faster. :slight_smile:

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