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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
       don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
 
+    - If a file gets resent in a single transfer and the --backup option
+      is enabled, rsync no longer performs a duplicate backup (losing the
+      original file in the process).
+
     - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
       (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
 
@@ -27,16 +31,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
       allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
 
+    - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
+      phase.
+
     - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
       the modify time on directories.  This avoids confusing NFS.
 
+    - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
+      for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
+      "vanished".
+
+    - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
+      refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
+      to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
+      the message).
+
+    - Most errors that occur during a daemon transfer are now returned to
+      the user in addition to being logged (some messages are intended to
+      be daemon-only).
+
     - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
       batch-processing options.
 
+    - We try to work around some buggy IPv6 implementations that fail to
+      implement IPV6_V6ONLY.  This should fix the "address in use" error
+      that some daemons get when running on an OS with a buggy IPv6
+      implementation.  Also, if the new code gets this error, we might
+      suggest that the user specify --ipv4 or --ipv6 (if we think it will
+      help).
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    - The new option --keep-dirlinks (-K) allows you to symlink a directory
-      onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+    - 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 "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
@@ -61,18 +88,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
     - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
       rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
 
+    - If an rsync daemon is listening on multiple sockets (to handle both
+      IPv4 and IPv6 to a single port), we now close all the unneeded file
+      handles after we accept a connection (we used to close just one of
+      them).
+
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
     - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
       including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
 
     - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
-      proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to be updated).
+      proto.h file is left untouched (its time-stamp used to always be
+      updated).
+
+    - The variable $STRIP (that is optionally set by the install-strip
+      target's rule) was changed to $INSTALL_STRIP because some systems
+      have $STRIP set in the environment.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
 
-    - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir (and some accepted
-      ones were removed as well).
+    - Some new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
+      ones were removed.