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-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
 
-  ENHANCEMENTS:
-
-    * The --delete-after option now implies --delete.  (Wayne Davison)
+  BUG FIXES:
 
-    * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir.  (Michael
-      Zimmerman)
+    - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+      was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+      file).
 
-    * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
-      specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
-      server-daemon.  This allows someone to use daemon features, such
-      as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh.  (JD Paul)
+    - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+      that already exists in the --backup-dir.
 
-    * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
-      destination field.
+    - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+      setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+      mkstemp().  (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
 
-    * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
-      rsync will read from standard input.  (J.W. Schultz)
+    - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+      the sender, and the file-list is large.
 
-    * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
-      unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
-      (J.W. Schultz)
+    - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+      FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+      necessary.
 
-    * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
-      rsync run.  (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
+    - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
 
-    * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion.  (Jon
-      Middleton)
+    - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
 
-    * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
-      and "hosts deny" fields.  (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
+    - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+      that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
 
-  BUG FIXES:
-  
-    * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3.  (John
-      L. Allen, Martin Pool)
+  ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
-      in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand.  This prevents
-      timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
+    - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+      use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
 
-    * Fix compilation on Tru64.  (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+    - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+      that it includes copies of identical files.
 
-    * Better handling of some client-server errors.  (Martin Pool)
+    - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+      --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+      patches dir and enhanced.)
 
-    * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
-      contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
-      list) and using --delete.  (Wayne Davison)
+    - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
 
-    * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
-      processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
-      an error.  (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
+    - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible to
+      start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+      cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
 
-    * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
-      broken.  (Dave Dykstra)
+    - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
+      to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
+      that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
 
-  INTERNAL:
+    - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+      the patches dir.)
 
-    * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.  (Martin 
-      Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+    - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+      file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+      partial file.
 
-    * More test cases.  (Martin Pool)
+  BUILD CHANGES:
 
-    * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
-      (Jos Backus)
+    - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().