Preparing for release of 3.0.0pre1

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NEWS for rsync 3.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 30 (changed)
 Changes since 2.6.9:
 
-  NOTABLE CHANGE:
+  NOTABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR:
 
    - The handling of implied directories when using --relative has changed
      to send them as directories (e.g. no implied dir is ever sent as a
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible with
       the new incremental recursion mode.
 
+    - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
+      having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
+      shell.  Additional remote args must specify the same host or have an
+      empty hostname, as seen here:  :file1  ::module/file2.  This means that
+      local use of brace expansion now works:  rsync -av host:path/{f1,f2} .
+
     - Added the --delete-delay option, which is a more efficient way to delete
       files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate delete pass.
 
@@ -160,11 +166,6 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       to the remote-shell command.  This protects them from space-splitting,
       and only interprets basic wildcard special shell characters (*?[).
 
-    - Rsync now allows multiple remote-source args to be specified rather than
-      having to rely on a special space-splitting side-effect of the remote-
-      shell.  (Additional remote args must specify the same host or have no
-      hostname.)
-
     - Improved the dashes and double-quotes in the nroff manpage output.
 
     - We now support a lot more --no-OPTION override options.