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@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
     - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being
       overly long.
 
+    - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no
+      longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since
+      the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they
+      may have chosen to override the auto-added rule).
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options.  These
@@ -96,6 +101,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
       still behaves in the same way as before.)
 
+    - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output
+      from a daemon when doing a copy.  (See the manpage for a caveat.)
+
     - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in
       the daemon's config file):  RSYNC_PID.  This value will be the same in
       both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer
@@ -103,19 +111,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   INTERNAL:
 
-    - Did a code audit using IBM's code checker program and made several
-      changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() calls
-      with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(); adding a 0-value to an enum
-      that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum values.
+    - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several
+      changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf()
+      calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to
+      an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum
+      values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some
+      functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that
+      could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive
+      that conditionally compiles the code.
 
     - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a
       top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations).
 
     - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit.
       The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function
-      was being called recursively.  The new code segments the exit code
-      so that any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit
-      processing.
+      was being called recursively.  The new code is segmented so that
+      any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing.
 
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