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@@ -5,24 +5,23 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
   BUG FIXES:
 
     - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
-      sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that the symlinks
-      values will now be accepted (and returned) with all their symlink info
-      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, any option that tells a
-      non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as
-      --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain
-      to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the
-      module's path.  This makes a non-chroot daemon behave the same as a
-      chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a potential
-      problem where pre-existing symlinks could have escaped the module's
-      hierarchy.
-
-    - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest
-      options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest):  if the copy's
-      destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these
-      options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since
-      these options are relative to the destination dir).  The old code
+      sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that each symlink's
+      value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info
+      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any
+      dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
+      manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
+      of the module's path.  These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+      same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
+      potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
+      module's hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
+      --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
+      the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
+      these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references
+      (since these options are relative to the destination dir).  The old code
       incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
-      how deep the destination directory was in the hierarchy.
+      how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
 
     - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
       directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
@@ -33,14 +32,32 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       receiving files.)
 
     - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
-      or --size-only is specified.
+      is specified.
+
+    - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
+      will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
+      regardless of the file's modify-time.
 
     - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
-      chroot.
+      chroot.  This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+      from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+      over and over again).
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+      it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+      to successfully update a destination file.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    - ...
+    - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options.  These
+      can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
+      They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
+      page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
+      settings when starting a daemon.
+
+    - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
+      it with affecting the log-file output.  (The old option remains as an
+      alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
 
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