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	1	NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
	2	Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
	3	Changes since 2.6.6:
	4
	5	BUG FIXES:
	6
	7	- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
	8	files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
	9
	10	- Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
	11
	12	- If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
	13	permissions without recreating the file.
	14
	15	- If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
	16	we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
	17	hostspec as a filename.
	18
	19	- When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
	20	permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
	21	the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
	22
	23	- Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
	24	algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
	25
	26	- Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
	27	fails.
	28
	29	- Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
	30
	31	- If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
	32	require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
	33
	34	- If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
	35	the exit status properly and generate a better error.
	36
	37	- Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
	38	--link-dest, or --compare-dest.
	39
	40	- Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
	41	that have a path component containing a slash.
	42
	43	- If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
	44	the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
	45
	46	- If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
	47	suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
	48	reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
	49
	50	- If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
	51	--dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being
	52	able to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
	53
	54	ENHANCEMENTS:
	55
	56	- Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
	57	that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
	58	files).
	59
	60	- Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
	61	transfer.
	62
	63	- Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
	64	rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
	65
	66	- Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
	67	to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
	68	of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
	69
	70	- The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
	71	--stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
	72
	73	- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
	74	preservation of attributes on symlinks.
	75
	76	- The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
	77	possible).
	78
	79	- Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
	80	--link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
	81
	82	- Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
	83	and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
	84	per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
	85	transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
	86	that are set with information about the transfer.)
	87
	88	- When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
	89	the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
	90	should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
	91	rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
	92	replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
	93	dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
	94
	95	- Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
	96	unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
	97	"--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
	98	file ownership that is implied by -a.
	99
	100	- Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
	101	to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
	102
	103	- Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
	104	which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
	105
	106	- If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
	107	now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
	108
	109	- If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
	110	without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
	111	that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
	112
	113	- The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
	114	better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
	115	"(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
	116	to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
	117	a total of 9999.
	118
	119	- The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
	120	trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
	121	content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
	122
	123	- If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
	124	unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
	125	all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course,
	126	the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
	127	rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
	128
	129	- Some minor documentation improvements.
	130
	131	- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
	132
	133	INTERNAL:
	134
	135	- Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
	136	MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
	137
	138	- If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
	139	with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
	140
	141	- If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
	142	the VA_COPY macro.
	143
	144	- Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
	145	recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
	146
	147	- The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to
	148	be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to
	149	do less string copying.
	150
	151	- Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
	152	replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all
	153	the output going to the terminal.
	154
	155	- Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
	156
	157	DEVELOPER RELATED:
	158
	159	- Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
	160	configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
	161	the newly patched feature.
	162