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@@ -63,12 +63,34 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
       help).
 
+    - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
+      messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error
+      trying to send data over the socket.
+
+    - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
+      hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
+      that removed files really get removed (works around a really weird
+      rename() behavior).
+
+    - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
+      int64 is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
+    - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
+      (temporarily) put a partially transferred file (instead of over-
+      writing the destination file).  E.g.  --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
+
     - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
       onto another partition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
       as matching a normal directory from the sender.
 
+    - Added the --inplace option that tells rsync to write each destination
+      file without using a temporary file.  The matching of existing data
+      in the destination file can be severely limited by this, but there
+      are cases where this is more efficient, such as appending data.  Use
+      only when needed (see the man page for more details).
+
     - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
 
     - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
@@ -90,7 +112,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       to maintain for the future).  The new code generates just one data
       file instead of three, which makes it possible to read the batch via
       stdin.  Also, the old requirement of using the same fixed checksum-
-      seed for all batch processing has been removed.  (Chris Shoemaker)
+      seed for all batch processing has been removed.
 
   INTERNAL:
 
@@ -108,8 +130,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
       them).
 
+    - Optimized the handling of larger block sizes (rsync used to slow to
+      a crawl if the block size got too large).  Also cap the block size.
+
     - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
 
+    - Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
+      each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
+      the verbose output via script more dependable).
+
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
     - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,