v0.8.0

Major new feature: Adds support for multiple sources and recursive directory transfers.

⛰️ Features

• (proto) ListContents command - (4372c89)
• (proto) Add CreateDirectory and SetMetadata commands - (fa8ee8e)
• (stats) Add post-transfer hints for --rtt/--rx/--tx - (19a3881)
• -p preserves mode bits on directories in get-multi mode - (60fda05)
• Implement recursive get (#21) - (63d74a7)
• Implement --preserve on multi-file PUT - (0f2452c)
• Support --recurse on PUT commands (#21) - (66c388c)
• Add multi-source support and single-session transfers (#181) - (fc8e258)
• Add configuration option for IO buffer size - (414520a)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (cli) Add missing ValueEnum declarations to TimeFormat and AddressFamily - (9628ba3)
• (stats) Satisfy clippy in bandwidth hint - (3ced4d3)
• Better handle encoding failures from List command - (9f85e97)
• Apply wire encoding limit at serialisation time (Postel's Law) - (aec1186)
• Recursion follows symlinks - (1ca3e00)
• Set readonly on Windows more reliably - (814c611)
• Detect Windows absolute paths with a drive letter as local - (57d994b)
• PUT behaviour when destination is a directory name - (b85b1d0)

📚 Documentation

• Update CLI docs - (7678310)

⚡ Performance

• (io) Speed up payload copy - (cb04ce9)

🎨 Styling

• Tidy up error handling - (5ffdd0c)
• Do not report a 0 byte transfer - (6dd22d6)
• Include comments in --list-features output; tidy up those comments - (5af4b29)
• Add "file N of M" to the progress spinner - (7b7f151)
• Report individual file transfer speeds as they complete - (bfbc4ed)
• Add a filename_width parameter to progress bars, so they align - (11d91e3)

🧪 Testing

• (get_multi) Test file times with --preserve - (a80c4d6)
• (get_multi) Include a readonly file - (bb7a417)
• (socket) Skip bind_ipv6 when unsupported - (fbf384c)
• Update session command tests to use SessionCommand factory - (23ba8b7)
• Refactor server/stream tests, add missing commands - (46488d3)
• Skip cosmetic stats functions in coverage analysis - (2d01de2)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• (doc) Rework CLI doc autogeneration - (44e18de)
• (doc) Move autogenerated docs into qcp/misc/generated/ - (5685f35)
• Improve legibility of factory.rs - (3428140)
• Match scp behaviour over dotfiles; remove IncludeHiddenItems internal flag - (18b8fce)
• Process_recursive_get checks for compatibility sooner - (ee81459)
• Reduce duplicated code - (b235272)
• Simplify Client.process_job_requests generics - (c028228)
• Create protocol preludes, split up session/command.rs - (60ff04f)
• Introduce a recursion helper function for FileSpec - (0cab891)
• Tidy up CLI --help output - (8232f30)
• Add helper functions for job filenames - (5f03c1d)

🚜 Refactor

• Progress_bar_for becomes a function of UI - (abbf218)
• Use SessionCommandInner in send_impl; introduce UI struct - (414683d)
• SessionCommand: move handler arguments into a SessionCommandInner struct - (4bc2af3)
• Consolidate command implementations, reduce boilerplate - (6529b05)
• Create client sender factory function - (b49b95b)
• Create factory function for command handlers - (542497a)
• Deduplicate find_option() - (9cf9b37)
• Allow ListData to be split and rejoined; implement in Listing command - (56fb709)
• Remove ListResponse from Response; replace with ListData - (313a141)
• Introduce a partial-success return, for closer equivalence to scp - (f0f9574)
• Drop success field of RequestResult - (2e5096e)
• Client request running functions return Result<...> - (7031abd)
• Rename ListContents to List in protocol / Listing in command handler - (f1b51e0)
• SessionCommandImpl.send returns a RequestResult - (d488117)
• Rename SessionPass to Phase, rename members - (33aa8b4)
• Add optional Response to main_loop::RequestResult - (d14bbf2)
• Client.run_request takes a &CopyJobSpec - (a485d1c)
• Client moves the negotiated items into a Negotiated struct - (91d4c66)
• Process_job_requests no longer needs its spinner argument - (45d285f)
• Refactor away Client.transfer_jobs - (76fd11f)
• Make client.process_job_requests a member function - (afe37c4)
• Add directory flag to CopyJobSpec - (a3ca515)
• Coalesce branching in CliArgs::jobspecs - (88f0dce)
• Add command handler helper functions, unify error/status conversions - (9a082f4)
• SessionCommandImpl.send() takes a Parameters - (31a90b7)
• Manage_request no longer needs a separate 'quiet' argument - (f980a69)
• Move log_file up from Parameters to CliArgs, mark Parameters as Copy - (d4a97f5)
• Move paths up from Parameters into CliArgs - (29d94a6)
• Move path helper functions into util - (948fda0)
• Remove unnecessary 'quiet' argument of Client::transfer_jobs - (8e397f5)
• Deduplicate rate reporting - (7c22444)

◀️ Revert

• Work around for warnings from cargo shear 1.9.0 - (31f4cde)

Download notes

• Debian and Ubuntu users will likely find the .deb packages convenient.
• Other Linux distributions, use qcp-linux-<ARCH>-musl.tar.gz. These are static musl binaries which should work on all distributions.