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-rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
 
-  SECURITY FIXES:
-
-    * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
-      process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson)
+  OUTPUT CHANGES:
 
+    - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+      it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+      sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+  
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message 
-	unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
-      and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
+    - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
+      was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
+      file).
+
+    - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+      that already exists in the --backup-dir.
+
+    - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+      setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
+      mkstemp().  (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+
+    - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+      the sender, and the file-list is large.
+
+    - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
+      FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
+      necessary.
+
+    - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
 
-    * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
-      "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
+    - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+
+    - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+      that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+
+    - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+      referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+      user and group of a symlink.
+
+    - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+      rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+    - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+      backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
-      than -v as in 2.5.2.  Output from plain -v is more similar to
-      what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
-      to parse the output.
+    - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
+      use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
+
+    - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+      that it includes copies of identical files.
+
+    - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+      --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+      patches dir and enhanced.)
+
+    - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
+
+    - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
+      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible to
+      start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+      cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+
+    - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
+      to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
+      that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+
+    - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+      the patches dir.)
+
+    - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
+      file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
+      partial file.
+
+    - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+      --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+
+    - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories
+      without recursion.
+
+    - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+      put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+      option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+      non-recursive listing).
+
+    - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+      files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+      once at the end of the transfer.  Only works when pulling, and uses
+      --link-dest.
+
+  INTERNAL:
+
+    - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+      the socket.
+
+    - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
 
-    * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
+  BUILD CHANGES:
 
-    * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
-	and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
+    - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().