A few minor twiddles.

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@@ -4,7 +4,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - ...
+    - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
+      sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that each symlink's
+      value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info
+      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, any option that tells a
+      non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as
+      --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain
+      to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the
+      module's path.  Both these changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+      same as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
+      potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
+      module's hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest
+      options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest):  if the copy's
+      destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these
+      options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since
+      these options are relative to the destination dir).  The old code
+      incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+      how deep the destination directory was in the hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+      directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+      generator.  This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+      also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+      the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+      process.  (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+      receiving files.)
+
+    - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
+      or --size-only is specified.
+
+    - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+      chroot.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
@@ -12,4 +44,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
+    - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+      make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
+
     - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+
+    - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+      consistent opening comments.