Issues

• rsync 3.5.0 is very slow and uses a lot of CPU compared to 3.4.x with large sparse files

  RsyncProject/rsync#1115 · Filter by author dfskoll opened on Oct 1, 2026
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• rrsync (3.5.x): receiver push onto an existing file always fails (dest passed as bare /proc/self/fd/N)

  RsyncProject/rsync#1107 · Filter by author frecar opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• --no-dry-run (and malformed --no--dry-run) accepted without error but has no effect

  RsyncProject/rsync#1104 · Filter by author CqN opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Build error on Solaris 10 / SPARC

  bug
  RsyncProject/rsync#1100 · Filter by author idgn23 opened on Sep 22, 2026
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• Release manager change doesn't have provenance

  RsyncProject/rsync#1097 · Filter by author thesamesam opened on Sep 21, 2026
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• inconsistent behavior in 3.5.0 between dry run and regular run

  RsyncProject/rsync#1086 · Filter by author synkathairo opened on Sep 13, 2026
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• Native gitignore Support - Open for Discussion

  RsyncProject/rsync#1079 · Filter by author steadytao opened on Sep 4, 2026
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• Machine-readable license and copyright information with REUSE

  RsyncProject/rsync#1035 · Filter by author Volker-Weissmann opened on Jul 29, 2026

• secure_relative_open() portable fallback cannot create a new final component (ENOENT vs ENOTDIR). Daemon --inplace fails to create files on kernels without openat2.

  RsyncProject/rsync#1033 · Filter by author mabunemeh opened on Jul 21, 2026
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• Regression: 3.4.4 fails to build on macOS 10.6: syscall.c: error: too few arguments to function ‘do_lchown’

  RsyncProject/rsync#1025 · Filter by author barracuda156 opened on Jul 12, 2026
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• Announce: rsync spec + conformance test harness

  RsyncProject/rsync#1021 · Filter by author danshearer opened on Jul 6, 2026
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• Protocol Version Mismatch - Shell appears clean and versions match

  RsyncProject/rsync#1015 · Filter by author mewoocat opened on Jun 20, 2026
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• PAM Support - Open for Discussion

  RsyncProject/rsync#968 · Filter by author steadytao opened on Jun 5, 2026
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• backup.test intermittently fails due to missing backup message output

  RsyncProject/rsync#941 · Filter by author nikhi757 opened on Jun 1, 2026
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• Feature request: --truncate-long-names option

  RsyncProject/rsync#891 · Filter by author dims12 opened on May 3, 2026
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• Feature-Request: Please consider to return an error code != RERR_TIMEOUT when rsync stops because the time provided by --stop-at has passed

  RsyncProject/rsync#870 · Filter by author alamp1360 opened on Apr 13, 2026

• --out-format="%M" is too limited

  RsyncProject/rsync#865 · Filter by author lucas-mior opened on Mar 23, 2026
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• Avoid considering EEXIST an error when mkdir

  RsyncProject/rsync#863 · Filter by author yihuaeyang opened on Mar 13, 2026
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• Include dir without including other files in parent dirs

  RsyncProject/rsync#854 · Filter by author stackek opened on Feb 8, 2026

• Feature Request: Add Direct I/O (O_DIRECT) support

  RsyncProject/rsync#850 · Filter by author evanlu14 opened on Feb 4, 2026
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• rrsync: Have control of allowed options

  RsyncProject/rsync#849 · Filter by author hefee opened on Jan 29, 2026

• Exclude based on remote file system

  RsyncProject/rsync#847 · Filter by author bpmartin20 opened on Jan 27, 2026

• --backup does not keep empty directories in --backup-dir

  RsyncProject/rsync#842 · Filter by author mgutt opened on Jan 11, 2026
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• --checksum time out waiting for file list

  RsyncProject/rsync#839 · Filter by author tenox7 opened on Jan 7, 2026
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• Invalid argument (22) error which is removed by many retries

  RsyncProject/rsync#838 · Filter by author Dominicus1165 opened on Jan 7, 2026