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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.7:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
-      wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
-      is in effect.
-
-    - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
-      receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
-      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
-      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.
-
-    - 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.
+    - 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:
 
-    - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
-      error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
-
-    - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
-      message.
-
-    - 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 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:
 
-    - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
-      compatibility functions.
+    - 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.
 
-    - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
+    - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
 
-    - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of
-      a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
-      actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).
+    - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+      consistent opening comments.