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@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
       newline.
 
+    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+      to it as a "file".
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
@@ -35,20 +38,27 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is output
       using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
 
-    - Improved the auth-errors that are logged for the daemon to include
+    - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
       some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
-      password mismatch, etc.).
+      password mismatch, etc.).  (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
 
     - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
+    - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
+      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
 
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
+      rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+
     - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
 
     - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they