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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)
@@ -83,10 +105,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
 
     - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
 
-    - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is
-      simpler, fixes a few weird problems with the old code, and is much
-      less intrusive into the code (making it easier to maintain for the
-      future).  (Chris Shoemaker)
+    - Batch writing/reading has a brand-new implementation that is simpler,
+      fixes a few weird problems with the old code (such as no longer
+      sprinkling the batch files into different dirs or even onto different
+      systems), and is much less intrusive into the code (making it easier
+      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.
 
   INTERNAL:
 
@@ -104,8 +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,