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@@ -18,8 +18,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       understand the -d option (i.e. it is 2.6.3 or older), you will need to
       either turn off -d (--no-d), or specify  -r --exclude='/*/*'  manually.
 
+    - In --dry-run mode, the last line of the verbose summary text is output
+      with a "(DRY RUN)" suffix to help remind you that no updates were made.
+
+    - A writable rsync daemon that disables "use chroot" now defaults to a
+      symlink-munging behavior designed to make symlinks safer while also
+      allowing absolute symlinks to be stored and retrieved.  This also has
+      the effect of making symlinks unusable while they're in the daemon's
+      hierarchy.  See the daemon option "munge symlinks" for full details.
+
   BUG FIXES:
 
+    - A daemon with "use chroot = no" and excluded items listed in the daemon
+      config file now properly checks an absolute-path arg specified for these
+      options:  --compare-dest, --link-dest, --copy-dest, --partial-dir,
+      --backup-dir, --temp-dir, and --files-from.
+
+    - If a file's data arrived successfully on the receiving side but the
+      rename of the tempory file to the destination file failed AND the
+      --remove-souce-files (or the deprecated --remove-sent-files) option
+      was specified, rsync no longer erroneously removes the associated
+      source file.
+
     - Fixed the output of -ii when combined with one of the --*-dest options:
       it now itemizes all the items, not just the changed ones.
 
@@ -71,6 +91,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
     - If a daemon module's "path" value is not an absolute pathname, the code
       now makes it absolute internally (making it work properly).
 
+    - Ensure that a temporary file always has owner-write permission while we
+      are writing to it.  This avoids problems with some network filesystems.
+
+    - Any errors output about password-file reading no longer cause an error at
+      the end of the run about a partial transfer.
+
+    - Using --only-write-batch to a daemon receiver now work properly (older
+      versions would update some files while writing the batch).
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is talking
@@ -158,6 +187,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       that should not have an effect in a directory that is being deleted.  e.g.
       -f '-p .svn/' would only affect "live" .svn directories.
 
+    - Rsync checks all the alternate-destination args for validity (e.g.
+      --link-dest).  This lets the user know when they specified a directory
+      that does not exist.
+
     - If we get an error setting the time on a symlink, we don't complain about
       it anymore (since some operating systems don't support that, and it's not
       that important).
@@ -172,6 +205,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       compatibility with older rsync versions, any use of --append that is
       talking protocol 29 or older will revert to the --append-verify method.
 
+    - Added the --contimeout=SECONDS option that lets the user specify a
+      connection timeout for rsync daemon access.
+
     - Documented and extended the support for the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG variable
       that can be used to enhance the client side of a daemon connection.
 
@@ -209,15 +245,41 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
     - Make sure that a daemon process doesn't mind if the client was weird and
       omitted the --server option.
 
+    - There are more internal logging categories available in protocol 30 than
+      the age-old FINFO and FERROR, including FERROR_XFER and FWARN.  These new
+      categories allow some errors and warnings to go to stderr without causing
+      an erroneous end-of-run warning about some files not being able to be
+      transferred.
+
     - Improved the use of "const" on pointers.
 
     - Improved J.W.'s pool_alloc routines to add a way of freeing older
       sections of a pool's memory.
 
+    - The getaddrinfo.c compatibility code in the "lib" dir was replaced with
+      some new code (derived from samba, derived from PostgreSQL) that has a
+      better license than the old code.
+
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - Rsync is now licensed under the GPLv3 or later.
 
+    - Rsync is now being maintained in a "git" repository instead of CVS
+      (though the old CVS repository still exists).  Several maintenance
+      scripts were updated to work with git.
+
+    - Generated files are no longer committed into the source repository.  The
+      autoconf and autoheader commands are now automatically run during the
+      normal use of "configure" and "make".  The latest dev versions of all
+      generated files can also be copied from the samba.org web site (see the
+      "magic" configure script that now comes with rsync for its location).
+
+    - The "patches" directory of diff files is now built from branches in the
+      rsync git repository (branch patch/FOO creates file patches/FOO.diff).
+
+    - The proto.h file is now built using a simple perl script rather than a
+      complex awk script, which proved to be more widely compatible.
+
     - When running the tests, we now put our per-test temp dirs into a sub-
       directory named testtmp (which is created, if missing).  This allows
       someone to symlink the testtmp directory to another filesystem (which is
@@ -232,3 +294,6 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       interfere with the {MIN,MAX}_PROTOCOL_VERSION checking algorithm (which
       does not have enough range to allow the main protocol number to be
       incremented for every minor tweak in that happens during development).
+
+    - The csprotocol.txt file was updated to mention the daemon protocol change
+      in the 3.0.0 release.