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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.6:
 
+  OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+    - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
+      clumping them together with the 'D' for devices.  The number of
+      characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+
   BUG FIXES:
 
     - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
@@ -40,8 +46,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
     - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
       that have a path component containing a slash.
 
+    - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
+      the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
+
+    - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
+      suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions.  Also, we now
+      reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
+
+    - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
+      --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being
+      able to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
+    - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
+      not require root).  The --devices option now affects just character and
+      block devices (which now matches the documentation).  The -D option still
+      requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
+
     - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
       that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
       files).
@@ -96,13 +118,39 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
 
     - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
-      without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure
+      without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
       that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
 
     - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
       better indicate what the numbers mean.  For instance, the output:
-      "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
-      file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
+      "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+      to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+      a total of 9999.
+
+    - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
+      trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
+      content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+
+    - Added the --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving
+      rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list.  This
+      makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include,
+      exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed
+      to hold the resulting files.
+
+    - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
+      unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
+      all the other verbose messages that can get in the way).  Of course,
+      the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
+      rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+
+    - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-
+      user activities.  This is useful for systems that allow things such
+      as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0,
+      and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will
+      be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+
+    - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the
+      TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync.
 
     - Some minor documentation improvements.
 
@@ -122,9 +170,21 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
     - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
       recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
 
+    - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to
+      be supplied as the string to match.  This allows the exclude code to
+      do less string copying.
+
+    - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
+      replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all
+      the output going to the terminal.
+
+    - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
       configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
       the newly patched feature.
 
+    - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
+      such as ~/.popt.