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NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
Changes since 3.0.0:

  NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR:

    - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the
      itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes,
      and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish
      between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a
      revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a
      new device number, etc.).

  BUG FIXES:

    - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was
      run without specifying a --config=FILE option.

    - Fixed a crash when backing up a directory that has a default ACL.

    - Fixed a bug in the handling of xattr values that could cause rsync to
      not think that a file's extended attributes are up-to-date.

    - Fixed the working of --fake-super with --link-dest and --xattrs.

    - Fixed a hang when combining --dry-run with --remove-source-files.

    - Fixed the building of the rounding.h file on systems that need custom
      CPPFLAGS to be used.  Also improved the error reporting if the building
      of rounding.h fails.

    - Fixed the use of the --protect-args (-s) option when talking to a daemon.

    - Fixed the --ignore-existing option's protection of files on the receiver
      that are non-regular files on the sender (e.g. if a symlink or a dir on
      the sender is trying to replace a file on the receiver).  The reverse
      protection (protecting a dir/symlink/device from being replaced by a
      file) was already working.

    - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that
      can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing,
      --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set.

    - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right
      modify time set.  This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime.

    - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the
      exclude rules to path entries.  It also sends the user an error just as
      if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the
      user's args).

    - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory
      handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy.

    - Fixed some glitches with the skipped-directory handling.

    - Fixed the 'T'-flag itemizing of symlinks when --time isn't preserved.

    - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option.

    - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no
      longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to-
      date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions,
      ownership, xattrs, etc.).

    - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs)
      because the options conflict.  If a daemon has "fake super" enabled,
      it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X.

    - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could
      make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path.

    - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support
      wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs).

    - Fixed the support/rrsync script to work with the latest options that
      rsync sends (including its flag-specifying use of -e to the server).

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    - When getting an error while asking an older rsync daemon for a file
      listing, rsync will try to notice if the error is a rejection of the
      --dirs (-d) option and let the user know how to work around the issue.

    - Added a few more --no-OPTION overrides.

    - Improved the documentation of the --append option.

    - Improved the documentation of the filter/exclude/include daemon
      parameters.

  INTERNAL:

    - Fixed a couple minor bugs in the included popt library (ones which I
      sent to the official popt project for inclusion in the 1.14 release).

    - Fixed a stat() call that should have been do_stat() so that the proper
      normal/64-bit stat() function gets called.  (Was in an area that should
      not have caused problems, though.)

    - Changed the file-glob code to do a directory scan without using the
      "glob" and "glob.h".  This lets us do the globbing with less memory
      churn, and also avoid adding daemon-excluded items to the returned
      args.

  DEVELOPER RELATED:

    - The configure script tries to get the user's compiler to not warn about
      unused function parameters if the build is not including one or more of
      the ACL/xattrs/iconv features.

    - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the
      included popt code should be used or not.

    - The RPM spec file was updated to have (1) comments for how to use the
      rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file.

    - Updated the build scripts to work with a revised FTP directory
      structure.