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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	- When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
	67	messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error
	68	trying to send data over the socket.
	69
	70	- When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
	71	hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
	72	that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
	73	rename() behavior).
	74
	75	- Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
	76	int64 is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
	77
	78	ENHANCEMENTS:
	79
	80	- Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
	81	(temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
	82	writing the destination file). E.g. --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
	83
	84	- Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
	85	onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
	86	as matching a normal directory from the sender.
	87
	88	- Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
	89	file without using a temporary file. The matching of existing data
	90	in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
	91	are cases where this is more efficient, such as appending data. Use
	92	only when needed (see the man page for more details).
	93
	94	- Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
	95
	96	- Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
	97	and documented all these options in the man page.
	98
	99	- Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
	100	bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
	101	values.
	102
	103	- The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
	104	SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
	105
	106	- Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
	107
	108	- Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
	109	fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
	110	sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
	111	systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
	112	to maintain for the future). The new code generates just one data
	113	file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
	114	stdin. Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
	115	seed for all batch processing has been removed.
	116
	117	INTERNAL:
	118
	119	- Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
	120	and made the code easier to maintain.
	121
	122	- Improved the argv-overflow checking for a remote command that has
	123	a lot of args.
	124
	125	- Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
	126	rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
	127
	128	- If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
	129	IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
	130	handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
	131	them).
	132
	133	- Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to
	134	a crawl if the block size got too large). Also cap the block size.
	135
	136	- Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
	137
	138	- Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
	139	each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
	140	the verbose output via script more dependable).
	141
	142	BUILD CHANGES:
	143
	144	- Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
	145	including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
	146
	147	- If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
	148	proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
	149	updated).
	150
	151	- The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
	152	target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
	153	have $STRIP set in the environment.
	154
	155	- Fixed a build problem when SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS isn't defined.
	156
	157	DEVELOPER RELATED:
	158
	159	- The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
	160
	161	- Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
	162	ones were removed.
	163