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@@ -2,12 +2,32 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.4:
 
+  OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+    - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+      escaped characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is
+      output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+      is now output as "\\".  Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+      should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
+      appropriate).
+
+    - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+      output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+      status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+      this under the same conditions when pushing files).  This was changed
+      to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we
+      now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+      exit with the appropriate exit status.
+
   BUG FIXES:
 
     - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
       not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
       rsyncd.conf file.
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+      that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
+
     - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
       permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
 
@@ -25,30 +45,61 @@ 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".
+
+    - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+      generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+      the file by the destination filename.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+      generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+      to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+      of the cluster.
+
+    - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
+      no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
+      receiving side.
+
+    - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+      sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
       of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
-      actual updating of the destination.
+      actual updating of the destination.  This allows you to divert all
+      the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+      are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
 
-    - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
-      characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is output
-      using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
+    - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+      (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+      periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+      can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
 
-    - 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