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@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir.
 
     - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
-      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
+      sanitizes the symlink target strings (by default).  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.
+      module's hierarchy.  See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting.
 
     - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
       --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
@@ -57,6 +57,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
       to successfully update a destination file.
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir
+      merge file:  the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and
+      only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is
+      done for global include/excludes).
+
+    - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from
+      the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+
+    - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of
+      the filesystem with --relative enabled.
+
+    - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write
+      permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all.  This avoids a
+      problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace
+      will not update a file that has no write permissions).
+
+    - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we
+      are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options.  These
@@ -72,6 +91,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
     - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in
       the daemon's config file.
 
+    - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style
+      tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, but it can now be consistently applied
+      regardless of how "use chroot" is set.
+
+    - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now
+      deprecated) --remove-sent-files option.  This new option removes all
+      non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already
+      up-to-date.  This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that
+      was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind
+      a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove.
+      (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and
+      still behaves in the same way as before.)
+
+    - 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
+      command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command.
+
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to