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	1	NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
	2	Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
	3	Changes since 2.6.2:
	4
	5	BUG FIXES:
	6
	7	- Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
	8	multiple source directories were specified.
	9
	10	- Fixed the 32-bit truncation of the file length when generating the
	11	checksums.
	12
	13	- The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
	14	over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
	15
	16	- Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
	17	the password file (by the client): the files no longer need to be
	18	terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
	19
	20	- If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
	21	no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
	22	specified. (Note: both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
	23	work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
	24	don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
	25
	26	- If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
	27	is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
	28	original file in the process).
	29
	30	- Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
	31	(rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
	32
	33	- Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
	34	items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
	35	allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
	36
	37	- Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
	38	phase.
	39
	40	- When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
	41	the modify time on directories. This avoids confusing NFS.
	42
	43	- When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
	44	for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
	45	"vanished".
	46
	47	- Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
	48	refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
	49	to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
	50	the message).
	51
	52	- Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
	53	the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
	54	be daemon-only).
	55
	56	- Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
	57	batch-processing options.
	58
	59	- We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
	60	implement IPV6_V6ONLY. This should fix the "address in use" error
	61	that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
	62	implementation. Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
	63	suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
	64	help).
	65
	66	ENHANCEMENTS:
	67
	68	- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
	69	onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
	70	as matching a normal directory from the sender.
	71
	72	- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
	73
	74	- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
	75	and documented all these options in the man page.
	76
	77	- Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
	78	bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
	79	values.
	80
	81	- The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
	82	SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
	83
	84	- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
	85
	86	- Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
	87	fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
	88	sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
	89	systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
	90	to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
	91	file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
	92	stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
	93	seed for all batch processing has been removed. (Chris Shoemaker)
	94
	95	INTERNAL:
	96
	97	- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
	98	and made the code easier to maintain.
	99
	100	- Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
	101	a lot of args.
	102
	103	- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
	104	rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
	105
	106	- If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
	107	IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
	108	handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
	109	them).
	110
	111	- Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
	112
	113	BUILD CHANGES:
	114
	115	- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
	116	including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
	117
	118	- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
	119	proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
	120	updated).
	121
	122	- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
	123	target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
	124	have $STRIP set in the environment.
	125
	126	- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
	127
	128	DEVELOPER RELATED:
	129
	130	- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
	131
	132	- Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
	133	ones were removed.
	134