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@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       and exits.  This should help users figure out that they can't use this
       option to control a remote shell's password prompt.
 
+    - Make sure that directory permissions of a newly-created destination
+      directory are handled right when --perms is left off.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
@@ -45,6 +48,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       delete files at the end of the transfer without needing a separate
       delete pass.
 
+    - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists.  This is
+      an improved version of the prior patch that was available.  (If you need
+      to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+      acls.diff patch that will add that.)
+
+    - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes.  This is
+      an improved version of the prior patch that was available.  (If you need
+      to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions, the new
+      xattrs.diff patch that will add that.)
+
     - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the
       receiving side is at least version 3.0.0.  This means that you
       can pull from an older rsync with this option, but pushing to an
@@ -55,14 +68,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       receiving side for all protocol versions.  For protocol 30, the use
       of a hashtable on the sending side allows us to more efficiently
       convey to the receiver what files are linked together.  This reduces
-      the amount of data sent over the socket by a considerable margin, and
-      moves the in-memory storage of the device+inode information from the
-      receiving side (for protocols < 30) to the sending side (note that
-      older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on both
-      sides).
+      the amount of data sent over the socket by a considerable margin
+      (rather than adding more data), and limits the in-memory storage of
+      the device+inode information to just the sending side for the new
+      protocol 30, or to the receiving side when speaking an older protocol
+      (note that older rsync versions kept the device+inode information on
+      both sides).
 
   INTERNAL:
 
+    - Rsync now supports the transfer of 64-bit timestamps (time_t values).
+
+    - Fixed a build problem with older (2.x) versions of gcc.
+
     - Added some isType() functions that make dealing with signed characters
       easier without forcing variables via casts.
 
@@ -76,8 +94,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
 
     - Made the sending of some numbers more efficient for protocol 30.
 
+    - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
+      omitted the --server option.
+
     - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - ...
+    - Rsync now has a way of handling protocol-version changes during the
+      development of a new protocol version.  This exchange of sub-version
+      info does not interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking
+      in older versions (which would be the case if every minor change made
+      to the protocol in CVS incremented the main PROTOCOL_VERSION value).