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@@ -2,17 +2,21 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.2:
 
-  OUTPUT CHANGES:
-
-    - For anyone who is parsing rsync's verbose output using a script,
-      please note that the 2-line footer now uses the term "sent" instead
-      of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read".  If you are not parsing
-      the numeric values out of this footer, your script would probably be
-      better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the indicator
-      that the verbose output is over.
+  OUTPUT CHANGES (ATTN: those using a script to parse the verbose output):
+
+    - Please note that the 2-line footer (output when verbose) now uses the
+      term "sent" instead of "wrote" and "received" instead of "read".  If
+      you are not parsing the numeric values out of this footer, a script
+      should be better off using the empty line prior to the footer as the
+      indicator that the verbose output is over.
       
-    - The --stats option was similarly affected to change "written" to
-      "sent" and "read" to "received".
+    - The output from the --stats option was similarly affected to change
+      "written" to "sent" and "read" to "received".
+
+    - Made sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
+      each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes sure that
+      a filename can't span multiple lines nor cause an empty line to be
+      output).
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
@@ -59,6 +63,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
       "vanished".
 
+    - The --copy-links (-L) option no longer has the side-effect of telling
+      the receiving side to follow symlinks.  See the --keep-dirlinks
+      option (mentioned below) for a way to specify that behavior.
+
     - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
       refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
       to just exit because the socket wasn't in the right state to send
@@ -79,8 +87,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       help).
 
     - When the remote rsync dies, make a better effort to recover any error
-      messages it may have sent instead of just dying with a write error
-      trying to send data over the socket.
+      messages it may have sent before dying (the local rsync used to just
+      die with a socket-write error).
 
     - When using --delete and a --backup-dir that contains files that are
       hard-linked to their destination equivalents, rsync now makes sure
@@ -90,6 +98,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
     - Avoid a bogus run-time complaint about a lack of 64-bit integers when
       the int64 type is defined as an off_t and it actually has 64-bits.
 
+    - Added a configure check for open64() without mkstemp64() so that we
+      can avoid using mkstemp() when such a combination is encountered.
+      This bypasses a problem writing out large temp files on OSes such as
+      AIX and HP-UX.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --partial-dir=DIR option that lets you specify where to
@@ -106,7 +119,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       are also cases where this is more efficient (such as appending data).
       Use only when needed (see the man page for more details).
 
-    - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
+    - Added the "write only" option for the daemon's config file.
 
     - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
       and documented all these options in the man page.
@@ -133,9 +146,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
       presence in the list of available modules), a user that fails to
       authenticate gets the same "unknown module" error that they would get
       if the module were actually unknown (while still logging the real
-      error to the daemon's log file).  This prevents fishing for modules
+      error to the daemon's log file).  This prevents fishing for module
       names.
 
+    - The daemon's "refuse options" config item now allows you to match
+      option names using wildcards and/or the single-letter option names.
+
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
@@ -157,10 +173,6 @@ Changes since 2.6.2:
 
     - Optimized away a loop in hash_search().
 
-    - Make sure that a filename that contains a newline gets mentioned with
-      each newline transformed into a question mark (which makes parsing
-      the verbose output via script more dependable).
-
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
     - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,