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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.4:
+Changes since 2.6.7:
 
   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
-      config file.
+    - 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.
 
-    - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
-      permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
+    - 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).
+
+    - 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:
 
-    - 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 "\\".
+    - 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.
+
+    - 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.
 
-  INTERNAL:
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
+    - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+      compatibility functions.
 
-  BUILD CHANGES:
+    - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
 
-    - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+    - 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).