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@@ -13,12 +13,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.7:
       never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
       the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 
       never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
       the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 

+    - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+      that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+      beyond the failed read's data.
+

     - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
     - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored

-      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection).
+      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+      init).

 
     - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
       instead of silently ignoring the option.
 
 
     - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
       instead of silently ignoring the option.
 

+    - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+      fifos) from being linked.
+
+    - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+      configure time instead of at runtime.  This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+      creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+

   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the


@@ -27,15 +39,18 @@ Changes since 2.6.7:
     - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
       message.
 
     - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
       message.
 

-    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
-      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+    - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+      that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.

 
 

-    - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
-      attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+    - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+      attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)

       taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
       taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 

+    - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+      compatibility functions.
+

     - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
 
     - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of
     - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
 
     - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of