NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 28 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.3: BUG FIXES: - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3 was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude file). - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination that already exists in the --backup-dir. - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with mkstemp(). - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when necessary. - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure. ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir). - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects. - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the partial file. BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().