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-rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
+rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)                -*- indented-text -*- 
 
   ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
 
     * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
 
+    * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch
+      sets.  By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos
+      Backus.  <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html>
+
+    * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems
+      including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.  Also
+      includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the
+      Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH
+      portability project, and OpenBSD.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS
 
     * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
@@ -43,6 +53,8 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
+    * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang.
+
     * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
 
     * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
@@ -50,8 +62,48 @@ rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
     * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
       to transfer fail to transfer 
 
-    * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug.
-
-    * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
-
-    * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.
+    * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might
+      overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an
+      ellipsis at the end of the string.  (Patch from Ed Santiago.)
+
+  PLATFORMS:
+
+    * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1)
+
+    * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf
+      scripts.  It is not required to simply build rsync.
+
+    * Platforms thought to work in this release:
+
+               Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc
+               Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc
+               Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc
+               FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc
+               FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc
+               FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc
+               HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc
+               HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc
+               IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc
+               IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc
+               Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc
+               NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc
+               NetBSD Current i386 cc
+               OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc
+               OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc
+               OpenBSD Current i386 cc
+               RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc
+               RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++
+               RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc
+               RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc
+               Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10)
+               Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc
+               Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc
+               Solaris 8 i386 gcc
+               SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2
+               SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2
+
+  TESTING:
+
+    * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a
+      test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba
+      build farm.