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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.6 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.5:
+Changes since 2.6.7:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - The setting of flist->high in clean_flist() was wrong for an empty list.
-      This could cause flist_find() to crash in certain rare circumstances
-      (e.g. if just the right directory setup was around when --fuzzy was
-      combined with --list-dest).
+    - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
+      wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
+      is in effect.
 
-    - The outputting of hard-linked files when verbosity was > 1 was not right:
-      without -i it would output the name of each hard-linked file as thought
-      it had been changed (it now outputs a "is hard linked" message for the
-      file); with -i it would output all dots for the unchanged attributes of
-      a hard-link (it now changes those dots to spaces, as is done for other
-      totally unchanged items).
+    - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
+      receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
+      never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
+      the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 
-    - When backing up a changed symlink or device, get rid of any old backup
-      item so that we don't get an already-exists error.
+    - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+      that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+      beyond the failed read's data.
+
+    - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
+      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+      init).
+
+    - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
+      instead of silently ignoring the option.
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+      fifos) from being linked.
+
+    - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+      configure time instead of at runtime.  This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+      creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    - Made the "max verbosity" setting in the rsyncd.conf file settable on a
-      per-module basis (which now matches the documentation).
+    - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+      error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
+
+    - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
+      message.
+
+    - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+      that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
 
-    - The support/rrsync script has been upgraded to verify the args of options
-      that take them (instead of rejecting any such options).  The script was
-      also changed to try to be more secure and to fix a problem in the parsing
-      of a pull operation that has multiple sources.
+    - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+      attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+      taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
-  BUILD CHANGES:
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - Made configure define NOBODY_USER (currently hard-wired to "nobody") and
-      NOBODY_GROUP (set to either "nobody" or "nogroup" depending on what we
-      find in the /etc/group file).
+    - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+      compatibility functions.
 
-    - Added a test to the test suite, itemized.test, that tests the output of
-      -i (log-format w/%i) and some double-verbose messages.
+    - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
 
+    - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of
+      a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
+      actions to a file (something that only a daemon supports at present).